Empire
Blockworks · 667 episodes with transcripts
Empire features interviews with top crypto founders to get the real stories that aren’t shared elsewhere. Empire is your look behind the curtain of the crypto industry. We release two episodes per week: guest interviews on Monday and a weekly roundup on Friday.
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667 episodes of Empire have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://spoken.md/podcasts/1554930038/episodes \
| jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
| while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
[ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
sleep 0.34
doneAlready-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.
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Example Transcripts
- Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats | Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou
- Markets Sending, Just Buy Consensus, Meta's AI Moment & Who Wins Tokenization? | Weekly Roundup
- CLARITY Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundup
- The Six Tokens To Own This Cycle | Yan Liberman
- Memecoins Are Stress-Testing The Future Of Tokenized Stocks | Weekly Roundup
- Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain | Johann Kerbrat
- The Bill That Could Reshape Crypto In America with Greg Xethalis from Multicoin
- Clarity Window Closing, Robinhood Eating Ethereum Value & Coinbase's Base Reset
- Fomo Co-Founders on Building the Social Network for Finance
- Crypto's Value Capture Problem & Why Robinhood Built Its Own Blockchain
- What’s Circle’s End Game, Robinhood Launches A Chain & Venice Raises $65M
- Can You Really Buy A House Without Selling Your Crypto? | Vishal Garg
- State of The Market, The Prediction Market Wars & Kraken Pursues Aave
- Optimism Co-Founders: What Happened to the L2s? Ben Jones & Karl Floersch
- Anthropic's Fable Banned, Will Microstrategy Blow Up & Structuring A Portfolio in 2026
- The Bull Case For Hyperliquid | Ryan Watkins
- Blockworks Acquires Messari
- CFTC Chair Michael Selig On Perps, Prediction Markets & Crypto In The U.S
- SpaceX’s $1.75T IPO, Strategy Sells Bitcoin & Crypto’s Hard Reset
- How KelpDAO's $290M Exploit Nearly Killed DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze
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