Why Iran Wants Crypto for Strait of Hormuz Tolls | CoinDesk Daily
Iran wants bitcoin and stablecoins for Strait of Hormuz toll payments. Iran is now accepting bitcoin and stablecoins from cargo ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, charging $1 per barrel of oil. E...
9 Apr 2min
Blockspace: Iran Taxes Oil Tankers in BTC, Morgan Stanley Launches BTC ETF, the NYT Hunts for Satoshi
Iran reportedly wants shipping companies to pay a toll in BTC to leave the Strait of Hormuz, and the NYT thinks it has cracked the case on Satoshi’s identity. Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 befor...
9 Apr 1h 27min
Morgan Stanley Launches Cheapest Bitcoin ETF | CoinDesk Daily
Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF is here. Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF begins trading today under the ticker MSBT, making it the first proprietary Bitcoin fund from a major U.S. bank. With 16,0...
8 Apr 2min
Are AI Giants Coming for Bitcoin Miners' Power? | CoinDesk Daily
Will AI companies fight bitcoin miners for energy infrastructure? Anthropic's multi-gigawatt compute deal with Google and Broadcom highlights how AI companies are now directly competing with bitcoin ...
7 Apr 2min
Blockspace: Matt Odell on OpenSats’ 17th Grant, $270M Drift Hack, Charles Schwab Eyes BTC Trading
Matt Odell joins the show to discuss OpenSats’ 17th grant round, and Ben Carman also joins to explain why the Austin Bitdevs meetup is saying sayonara for now. Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 befor...
7 Apr 1h 8min
Invesco Takes Over Superstate’s $900M Fund; Franklin Crypto in Focus
Why is Wall Street betting on crypto? On this episode of CoinDesk’s Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by 250 Digital Asset Management CEO Chris Perkins to discu...
6 Apr 28min
Lawmakers Outraged Over "Disgusting" War Bets on Polymarket | CoinDesk Daily
Polymarket faces political backlash over contract tied to rescuing U.S. soldiers in Iran. Polymarket removed a betting market on the rescue of U.S. service members in Iran after lawmakers criticized ...
6 Apr 3min
Blockspace: MARA’s 15% Layoffs, CleanSpark’s Bitcoin Bond, Google’s Quantum Computing Bitcoin Break
On today’s Blockspace Live, Alex Pruden joins us to discuss Google’s latest quantum computing paper, and we unpack MARA’s 15% headcount reduction. Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices incr...
4 Apr 1h 24min
