April 18, 2026

The Block Runner Blog

SpiderPool Pays Miners in Bitcoin AND NAT — What That Actually Means for Bitcoin's Future

The Moment Everyone in NAT Has Been Waiting For On this week's Block Runner Podcast, William and I-man opened with a topic they could barely contain: SpiderPool, the fifth-largest Bitcoin mining pool by hash rate, has announced it will begin distributing both Bitcoin and NAT

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SpiderPool Pays Miners in Bitcoin AND NAT — What That Actually Means for Bitcoin's Future

The Moment Everyone in NAT Has Been Waiting For On this week's Block Runner Podcast, William and I-man opened with a topic they could barely contain: SpiderPool, the fifth-largest Bitcoin mining pool by hash rate, has announced it will begin distributing both Bitcoin and NAT

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Episode 310: AI Brainrot, Google’s Quantum Warning, and the Cost of Promising the Future Too Early

AI Brainrot Is Not a Joke. It Is a Market Signal. Episode 310 opens in a place that sounds unserious at first: K-pop demon hunters, AI fruit drama, and the weird internet universe sometimes labeled “b

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Episode 309: The Billion Dollar AI Race, NAT.fun Launch, and Why Google Just Put Bitcoin on a Countdown Clock

The Block Runner team breaks down the AI solopreneur billionaire hype, previews NAT.fun launch week with creator and collector playbooks, analyzes Google quantum computing paper and its 2029 deadline for Bitcoin, and examines the accelerating security budget crisis.

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Episode 308: The NFT Industry Is Dead. Here Is Why That Is Exactly the Point.

The Block Runner crew lost their internet. So naturally, they sat down and recorded a podcast anyway.

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Meta Torched $80 Billion on the Metaverse. Here Is Why That Is Actually Good News.

Mark Zuckerberg spent $80 billion trying to convince the world to live inside a cartoon. He failed. Meta quietly shuttered Horizon Worlds -- but what if this funeral is actually a groundbreaking ceremony? William and I-man break down the metaverse collapse, SEC crypto clarity, the Bitcoin security budget thesis, and why bear markets are where real builders get ahead.

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