Welcome back to Block Space Live! Today, William Cohan and Tyler Maroney of the Finding Satoshi documentary join us to talk about their years-long search for Bitcoin’s creator. We also dive into the wild crypto extortion scheme that scammers are waging against unwitting tanker crews in the Strait of Hormuz, and we break down the explosive  lawsuit between Justin Sun and the Trump-linked World Liberty Financial. Plus, Core Scientific’s massive $3.3 billion raise, and how Bitget and Republic are bringing SpaceX investment to crypto rails before Musk’s company even goes public. 

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Notes:

• Core Scientific to raise $3.3 billion via senior notes.

• Justin Sun's $45M WLFI investment allegedly worth $766M before it was frozen.

• Hormuz toll trolls: scammers trick Indian oil tanker crew into paying fake crypto toll

• Reuters: 20,000 seafarers currently in the Gulf.

• Finding Satoshi documentary 6 years in the making

• Bitget, Republic partner to list “mirror token” for pre-IPO SpaceX stock

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:22 Softwar Thesis is back baby!

09:16 Hormuz crypto scam

15:57 Justin Sun Sues WLFI

24:11 Finding Satoshi

41:44 CORZ $3.3B note

48:11 Bitget SpaceX IPO

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