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Welcome back to Block Space Live! Today, Luxor’s Kaan Farahani Luxor and MIT DCI Director Neha Narula join us to respectively discuss the wild volatility of Bitcoin mining in Q1 and the question of Bitcoin’s quantum resistance. For news, explore a new stop-gap quantum-safe transaction fix that avoids soft forks, map out the states placing moratoriums on AI data center builds, and discuss the geopolitical shift of Iran accepting bitcoin for oil export tolls. We also break down reports of a buyer interest in Gemini’s defunct UK and European business arms and Nakamoto’s reverse stock split.

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Notes:

* New quantum proposal costs ~$200 per transaction

* Compute time takes roughly 6 hours

* March difficulty drop ranked 10th at 7.76%

* February saw 11.16% difficulty drop

* Maine bans data centers >20MW until 2027

* Buyer interested in Gemini’s shuttered UK/EU exchange businesses

*NAKA seeks 1-for-20 or 1-for-50 reverse stock split

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:42 Hashrate Index Update

05:04 Quantum proposal-palooza

15:54 Kaan Farahani

32:42 Neha Narula

48:39 Datacenter Bans

1:02:25 Gemini

1:06:59 NAKA scramble to remain on Nasdaq

1:13:59 Iran & Bitcoin

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