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311. TBR - SpiderPool Distributes NAT + Bitcoin | Bitcoin Security Budget Math | NAT Token Value | NAT.fun Launch

Episode

311

Published on
April 18, 2026
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Show Notes:

Topics:

  1. First up, SpiderPool Distributes NAT + Bitcoin
  2. Next, Bitcoin Security Budget Math
  3. Then, NAT Token Value
  4. and Finally, NAT.fun Launch

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In Episode 311 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William and I-man discuss SpiderPool's historic distribution of both Bitcoin and NAT tokens to pool participants, dive deep into the mathematical impossibility of Bitcoin's long-term security budget, and break down why the NAT token is the only viable solution. They also preview the imminent launch of NAT.fun, a new NFT platform built on Bitcoin block production data.

Key topics:

  1. SpiderPool — the 5th largest Bitcoin miner — officially begins distributing both BTC and NAT to pool participants, marking a historic first and validating months of anticipation
  2. Bitcoin's security budget math crisis: why the X-squared price growth requirement is mathematically impossible and what the halving subsidy trajectory means for decentralization by 2140
  3. NAT token as Bitcoin's only viable supplemental subsidy: 60% of global hash power already backing it, and how $1,000/block at $1B market cap reaches fee parity — 1,400x below Bitcoin's current valuation
  4. Skeptics and scoffers in the Bitcoin ecosystem — why the CMO of Brains laughed at SpiderPool's announcement and why that pattern of dismissal has a well-documented historical cost in crypto
  5. NAT.fun platform preview: how the viability-test launch mechanism (bonding curve + graduation) on Solana uses Bitcoin block production data to revive NFTs with a sustainable creator economics model
  6. Quantum computing vs. economic attack vectors on Bitcoin — why $24B to attack Bitcoin for one hour is nothing compared to nation-state security budgets of $500B-$1T/year
  7. The grain-of-sand thought experiment: why Bitcoin's exponential price growth requirement correlates to pricing every grain of sand on Earth at $700
  8. NAT.fun and its role in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem revival, including a brief Ordinals market resurgence signal

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