The Block Runner is your authentic source for Bitcoin, Ordinals and other cryptocurrency technology, explanations and news. Learn the most optimal strategies to optimize your cryptocurrency knowledge. We’re building a metaverse project that enables creators to build and deploy in multiple virtual worlds using Digital Matter Theory. Join us on our journey from starting a business from nothing to what will amount a multi trillion dollar metaverse industry.
Episodes
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Barefoot Mining: Bitcoin's Future, Block Space, and Sovereignty
Bitcoin mining isn’t just about earning rewards—it’s about controlling the future of money. In this episode, we sit down with Bob Burnett, CEO of Barefoot Mining, to uncover the hidden power struggle behind Bitcoin mining and why nation-states, financial institutions, and intelligence agencies are eyeing control over block space.
Bob shares his journey from Ethereum mining to Bitcoin and explains why he believes that in the future, controlling who gets to transact will be more valuable than simply holding Bitcoin. We explore the shift from mining incentives to block space dominance, the implications of nation-state mining operations, and how Bitcoin's scarcity is fueling a new geopolitical battleground.
We also dive into how the U.S. government’s stance on Bitcoin is shifting, why major banks like Fidelity and BlackRock are already mining, and what this means for the decentralization of the network. Could Bitcoin mining become a new form of economic warfare? And what can everyday users do to protect Bitcoin’s ethos?
We sit down with Bob Burnett, founder and CEO of Barefoot Mining, to explore the evolving landscape of Bitcoin mining and financial sovereignty. Bob shares his journey from the early days of personal computing to Ethereum mining, and ultimately, his deep conviction in Bitcoin as the superior monetary system.
The conversation delves into the political and economic forces shaping Bitcoin mining, including the growing interest from nation-states and financial institutions. Bob explains why he believes the real value of mining is shifting from earning Bitcoin to controlling block space, and what that means for the future of decentralization.
We also break down the economic realities of mining, the impact of halvings, and why transaction fees are becoming the backbone of miner incentives. As institutional players enter the space, how can Bitcoin remain true to its ethos? This is a must-watch for anyone invested in the future of Bitcoin
Topics:
- First up, we sit down with Bob Burnett, CEO of Barefoot Mining, to uncover the hidden power struggle behind Bitcoin mining
- Next, Bob shares his journey from Ethereum mining to Bitcoin and explains why he believes that controlling transact will be more valuable than simply holding Bitcoin.
- Then, dive into how the U.S. government’s stance on Bitcoin is shifting, why major banks like Fidelity and BlackRock are already mining, and what this means for the decentralization of the network.
- and Finally, break down the economic realities of mining, the impact of halvings, and why transaction fees are becoming the backbone of miner incentives
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
In this episode of the Block Runner podcast, hosts William and Iman, dive deep into the world of decentralized token launches with special guest Caps, the founder of Flaunch .... Discover how Flaunch is aiming to redefine the meme coin and creator economy by offering a novel approach built on Uniswap v4 .
We explore the unique mechanics of Flaunch, including its fixed-price fair launch and automated liquidity manipulation, contrasting it with the fee structures of platforms like pump.fun .... Caps shares his insights on how Flaunch empowers creators by allowing them to own 100% of the revenue stream from swap fees, potentially providing a more sustainable model for communities and projects ....
Topics:
- First up, we have Caps, the founder of Flaunch, diving into the world of decentralized token launches
- Next, exploring the unique mechanics of Flaunch, including its fixed-price fair launch and automated liquidity manipulation, contrasting it with the fee structures of platforms like pump.fun
- Then, learning about the potential for creators, influencers, and even AI agents to leverage Flaunch for community building and capital formation
- and Finally, what does Caps have in store for the future of Flaunch?
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
After a week of $NAT tokens being allocated to Bitcoin miners, we take a closer look at the longer-term implications and explore potential scenarios where $NAT plays a pivotal role in the sustainability of mining operations. We analyze which miners have accumulated the most tokens and, by projecting across different market cap brackets, estimate the weekly value being accrued. This exercise aims to highlight how $NAT can fulfill its long-term mission once market forces drive its token value significantly higher than it is today. We also discuss the responsibilities and roles as the founders going forward, now that the technical framework for $NAT as Bitcoin’s new subsidy reward token has been established, drawing parallels with Satoshi's early efforts in galvanizing community support for the movement and successful propagation of the ideals behind Bitcoin.
In our view, there are still several key tasks ahead, such as deploying infrastructure primitives that will facilitate more liquid trading environments for $NAT and the creation of sustainable DeFi networks that can leverage the DMT ecosystem. Additionally, $NAT needs a substantial amount of educational content to clarify its mission and the broader goals of the DMT ecosystem. With a target market cap of $1 billion, which we believe is achievable, we are confident that these challenges will be addressed by the community, ensuring the ecosystem's resilience and long-term growth.
Topics:
- First up, After a week of $NAT tokens being allocated to Bitcoin miners, we take a closer look at the longer-term implications and explore potential scenarios where $NAT plays a pivotal role in the sustainability of mining operations.
- Next, analyze which miners have accumulated the most tokens and, by projecting across different market cap brackets, estimate the weekly value being accrued.
- and Finally, With a target market cap of $1 billion, which the guys believe is achievable, we are confident that these challenges will be addressed by the community, ensuring the ecosystem's resilience and long-term growth.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
We discuss our experience on the day of $NAT being officially mined by Bitcoin miners and discuss in detail what the prospects are for $NAT and DMT in supporting the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem. As well as game plan steps moving forward in order to further educate the mining community and regular folk about what it is $NAT represents as the first DMT asset contributing to furthering the future sustainability of Bitcoin. We then showcase some of the Ordinal assets for mint that will contribute to adding liquidity for $NAT on TaparooSwap, a Bitcoin L1 AMM DEX.
With our efforts and the community behind us we can strengthen $NAT overtime and build a strong NATwork effect in support of the DMT ecosystem as a whole. We firmly believe the success of $NAT will be the catalyst for the entire Bitcoin ecosystem as it represents a native to Bitcoin product that is closest aligned to the ethos and value of Bitcoin itself. At the end we discuss Jason Lowery’s recent bullish sentiment around Digital Matter Theory and how we align with his talking points of his next book titled “Digital Power”. Having notable actors in the Bitcoin community continually propagating the idea of Bitcoin’s higher purpose being the utilization of its immutable substrate layer will further elevate the DMT mission.
Topics:
- First up, the guys discuss their experience on the day of $NAT being officially mined by Bitcoin miners and discuss in detail what the prospects are for $NAT and DMT in supporting the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem
- Next, then showcase some of the Ordinal assets for mint that will contribute to adding liquidity for $NAT on TaparooSwap, a Bitcoin L1 AMM DEX
- and Finally, Having notable actors in the Bitcoin community continually propagating the idea of Bitcoin’s higher purpose being the utilization of its immutable substrate layer will further elevate the DMT mission.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
We explore the rapid advancements occurring outside of the crypto space, particularly in AI and robotics, and consider how a robotic revolution could shape society. Innovation seems to be accelerating across fields like AI, robotics, and quantum computing, making it increasingly difficult to keep up. Turning the focus back to the crypto world, we reflect on how the current market doesn't mirror this same momentum. With market sentiment at all-time lows, largely due to memecoin saturation and growing awareness of insider manipulation, we discuss potential solutions for emerging from this slump. Among the more promising developments is $NAT, a fundamentally sound asset that we believe points the way forward for the crypto market. Through the lens of Digital Matter Theory, $NAT introduces groundbreaking concepts that bring real substance to the crypto space by utilizing Bitcoin’s properties in the digital asset creation process. In the coming weeks, $NAT will fulfill its ultimate goal: to become Bitcoin’s second official subsidy reward token, setting the stage for a multi-billion dollar market cap. We believe that as awareness of $NAT spreads, it will reinvigorate the community with a renewed sense of purpose—something the market desperately needs right now.
Topics:
- First up, explore the rapid advancements occurring outside of the crypto space, particularly in AI and robotics, and consider how a robotic revolution could shape society.
- Next, Turning the focus back to the crypto world, we reflect on how the current market doesn't mirror this same momentum.
- and Finally, the believe that as awareness of $NAT spreads, it will reinvigorate the community with a renewed sense of purpose—something the market desperately needs right now.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
AI Agents thrive on data, and @cookiedotfun is building the ultimate supply. 🍪🤖
We sat down with founder Filip to break down how Cookie is revolutionizing AI with unique data aggregation, powering smarter, more capable agents. Plus, how $COOKIE fits into it all. 🚀
Watch now:
Building AI Infra For The Agentic Economy w/ Filip Wielanier, CEO of Cookie3 | TBR #254 https://youtu.be/89hWvkNvNZ0
@cookiedotfun has been highly regarded for its unique data aggregation methods and application for AI Agents. In a world as competitive as AI, data is the lifeblood that will make Agents more performant than others and therefore more desirable. The Cookie DAO foundation is working toward building a state of the art data system that will supply AI Agents with these necessary knowledge sources. We break down with the founder Filip how Cookie works and how the $cookie tokens play an integral role in supporting this ecosystem. Since the release of Cookie.fun, a tremendous onboarding of users into the Cookie ecosystem has followed due to the platforms ability to parse through on-chain and off-chain information that is relevant to the Agentic space in web3. We ask Filip how he see’s the AI Agent space progressing from here and how Cookie’s data technology will help elevate AI Agent launch platforms give their agents more optimal capabilities, as reflected by their own recently deployed agent swarm supporting Agent Cookie.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
We start by talking about the recent deployment of Agent Cookie and how it is showcasing the utilization of multi-agent swarm technology to more efficiently produce content. We speculate on how these types of swarms can be applied to produce content that can reach a broader demographic outside of crypto twitter, also share our insights on the current state of the AI agent landscape now that the sector is down 70-80% from its all time highs. We then transition to the Bittensor ecosystem and how we think the launch of dTAO will play out. This is a moment we have been waiting to see manifest for over 2 years and if successful gives TAO the potential to be regarded as the ETH of this cycle. However there are several contingencies that have to be considered in regards to the existing market participant demographics and the probability of an original product emergence from within the ecosystem itself.
We break down how important innovation and new narratives are for ecosystems to experience success in the web3 space. We’ve seen ecosystems that have good designs on paper such as Polkadot play out to not meeting the initial expectations set at their launch. We believe the cause of this is due to a lack of innovative products that were deployed that leveraged that ecosystems benefits and unique properties. Bittensor will require the same in order for it to stand out at the end of the day for it to achieve its unicorn status in the crypto AI landscape.
Topics:
- First, discuss the recent deployment of Agent Cookie and how it showcases the utilization of multi-agent swarm technology to produce content more efficiently.
- Next, the Bittensor ecosystem and how the guys think the launch of dTAO will play out.
- and Finally, break down how important innovation and new narratives are for ecosystems to experience success in the web3 space.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
We break down the state of the Meme economy and make comparisons to what we saw in the 2021 bull cycle. Memes on Solana have strong parallels to the NFT market on Ethereum from last cycle, especially when you compare revenue figures of the top marketplaces like pump.fun to Opensea. We give our thoughts on where we are on the timeline of meme mania and speak about the impacts memes are having on the broader crypto market. This includes methods of launching new projects by leveraging memes as a more user friendly go to market vehicle to onboard community and then adding complexity layers down the road to not off-put sentiment.
Also, when it comes to marketing narratives memes seem to be dominating the mind share so we discuss how we are approaching $NAT from a marketing perspective. Now that $NAT is weeks away from officially becoming Bitcoin’s second subsidy reward coin, how we classify this new coin is important for public perception. Some do not see $NAT as a candidate to fit within the existing market demographic of memes and rather see a new narrative formed around the coin that distinguishes it from the meme asset class due to its technical provenance to DMT and the broader mission of supplying Bitcoin miners with additional subsidy to sustain network security. We discuss our thoughts on this and also the liquidity dilemma when it comes to supporting Bitcoin assets. All sectors of the Bitcoin ecosystem are facing this problem and are actively working toward building solutions that can either bring more liquidity to Bitcoin from other chains or port Bitcoin native assets to other chains like Solana to benefit from those capital markets.
Topics:
- First up, break down the state of the Meme economy and make comparisons to what the guys saw in the 2021 bull cycle
- Next, the guys give their thoughts on where they are on the timeline of meme mania and speak about the impacts memes are having on the broader crypto market.
- and Finally, discuss the liquidity dilemma when it comes to supporting Bitcoin assets
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
We have a deep dive discussion with the founder of MOSS AI about the conceptual emergence of AGI and how this reality intersects with the web3 economy. Landon is building a crypto ecosystem focused on supporting the emergence of blockchain based AGI. The ecosystem has several layers of technical complexity as well as a multi token approach. Landon explains the purpose and utility for each token and how collectively they align all the facets of the ecosystem together to produce productive AI Agents with highly specified and tuned functional purpose. We break down what the ultimate goal is for the MOSS ecosystem and how AGI will impact humanity at scale. Since Landon has an extensive background in the metaverse space we put our minds together to theory-craft multiple scenarios where productive AGI framework like MOSS can help aid in the construction of a sustainable digital economy. We also get into the sustainability of the AI Agents themself since they have cost requirements similarly to how smart contract execution has cost requirements. All together the MOSS economy is designed to give Agents the possibility of producing valuable output in order to maintain their own sustainable pathways to continue their performance and to eventually partake in the digital and physical economy autonomously.
Topics:
- First up, who is Landon Wang, and how did he get into the web3 AI Space
- Next, What is MOSS AI, how does it work, and will it intersect with the web3 economy in the emerging AGI?
- and Finally, break down what the ultimate goal is for the MOSS ecosystem and how AGI will impact humanity at scale.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
We begin our discussion by detailing our experience over the last month of tussling with the injection of AI into all things relevant to our existence. Not just from what we have been building in context of the crypto space, but also our personal livelihood. We explain how we have built a core thesis around the metaverse over the last 5 years since we began development in Decentraland. Now with AI that core thesis is beginning to shift and our interpretation as to what needs to be built is changing dramatically as a result.
We showcase some examples of this while stumbling onto a metaverse builder in the newly deployed Bitmap Emporium world while on the podcast. As we watch this human builder concept a virtual casino on his parcel, we begin to imagine how an agentic economy will form synergies with what already exists. We then envision a reality where AI is producing content so rapidly and at such a low cost that it diminishes the value proposition of the content application layer itself, which we believed held the most value in context of the metaverse economy due to its difficulty to produce by human developers. We then to theory craft what can emerge to supplement this removal of value. Will it be a DMT based commodity layer that embeds intrinsic value into the digital economy of the metaverse that agents and humans can co-operate to harvest and extract?
Topics:
- First up, detailing the guys experience over the last month of tussling with the injection of AI into all things relevant in their existence
- Next, they guys explain how they built a core thesis around the metaverse over the last 5 years since they began development in Decentraland
- and Finally, envision a reality where AI is producing content so rapidly and at such a low cost that it diminishes the value proposition of the content application layer itself
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app!
Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com
Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube
Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter
Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram
Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord