World Crypto Networkest. March 2014

The Bitcoin Talk Show

Call-in radio for a currency without a phone number. Mined from the archive, not from memory.
Derrick J. Freeman & Thomas Hunt1-708-23-COINS
What the calls were about

Call categories

Price & markets276Bitcoin tech142Regulation103Off-topic / unclassified17Scams & security16Philosophy & freedom12Personal stories4

Each mined call segment classified by keyword density. "Off-topic / unclassified" means the keywords found nothing to grab — some of those calls were about dinner.

Topical vs personal

Topical / news calls: 566 (99%)Personal-story calls: 4 (1%)
TopicalPersonal

Personal-story calls — how I found Bitcoin, what my wife thinks of it — versus everything else. The show pitched itself as "tell your Bitcoin story," but the phone lines mostly wanted to talk shop.

2014 Topical: 392014392018 Topical: 4712018 Personal: 420184752019 Topical: 282019282020 Topical: 27202027
Topics across the whole archive
TopicEpisodes touching itTotal mentionsShare of episodes
Mining210444699%
Taxes210410099%
Bitcoin price202156395%
Scams & hacks198212593%
Satoshi194192392%
Wallets & keys190329690%
Politics & elections182217786%
Central banks & fiat179124984%
Altcoins177206083%
Ethereum162164276%
Regulation & law14966370%
Lightning Network138298265%
Segwit & forks137103765%
ETFs10960551%
Coffee10434449%
Silk Road7628536%
Mt. Gox7024933%
Craig Wright3811418%
Coronavirus3190015%
Halving223610%
The lonely topics

Least-discussed in the keyword sweep: Halving (22 episodes), Coronavirus (31 episodes), Craig Wright (38 episodes). The halving — Bitcoin's only scheduled news event — barely registers; both of the show's big runs fell between halvings. Craig Wright was a problem the 2014 episodes never saw coming. And coronavirus exists only in the final stretch, which dates the archive more precisely than the date stamps do.