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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How Agentic AI Will Shatter Your Business Model Before You Even Notice

The AI Takeover Is Here-And You’re Not Ready Last month, 28 million people read a doomsday timeline: by 2028, AI will rip the S&P down 40%, and unemployment will shatter economic illusions.

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Hollywood for $10,000: How AI Video Agents Are About to Unleash a New Creative Mania

A teenager just made a short film with AI tools and landed a Hollywood movie deal—what happens when this tech goes mainstream? Find out why AI video agents could make you the next overnight sensation, and how crypto sensibilities are shaping this wild new creator economy.

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Five Months Down: The Hard Truth About Bitcoin's Broken Backbone

The Chart Says “Crash”-But Nobody’s Telling You Why Bitcoin’s price isn’t just bleeding-it’s hemorrhaging, five consecutive months deep, marking the hardest, coldest fall in the network’s history.

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From NFT Mania to Crypto Despair: Why Artists Are Starving (And How Net.fun Plans to Save Them)

Bitcoin Hasn’t Even Flinched-But NFT Artists Are Begging for Spare ETH Charles Hoskinson-yes, the Cardano guy-just walked onstage dressed as a McDonald’s employee to signal the crypto industry’s lates

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The Invisible EMP: How Derivatives Just Nuked Bitcoin’s Scarcity Narrative

The Metal in Our Mouths: This Isn’t Just Another Market Crash It tasted like metal. That was the opening vibe from our latest Block Runner recording: “It feels like the gun is coming back into the mou

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