Thomas Hunt has been showing up at Bitcoin conferences with a microphone since 2014. The World Crypto Network team did the same — sometimes the same room, often different cities. Combined, the two channels left 229 on-location interview videos behind, recorded at 19 named conferences across 2013–2025. This is the map.
This report scans the combined Mad Bitcoins + World Crypto Network archive — every .info.json file the master mirror has on disk — and pulls every video whose title or description places the camera on the floor of a named Bitcoin or crypto conference. False positives like roundtable shows and news roundups are filtered: the desk-show Today in Bitcoin roundup that mentions Consensus is not the on-site interview from Consensus, and is not counted here.
What's left is a real chronicle of who showed up to talk on tape between 2013–2025. The dominant venues split into three eras: the early 2014–2015 cluster around CoinCongress (San Francisco), TNABC (Miami), and Bitcoin in the Beltway (Washington DC); the mid-era WCN sprint of 2018 spanning Baltic Honeybadger (Riga) and HCPP (Prague); and the late-era Mad Bitcoins return to Unconfiscatable in Las Vegas (2019–2020).
Every named conference identified in the combined archive, in chronological order. The count is the number of distinct videos. Generic "interview at some Bitcoin conference" matches are bucketed separately.
Top 3 by volume: HCPP (Hackers Congress) 2017 (29 videos) · HCPP (Hackers Congress) 2018 (28) · Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference 2020 (26).
Every matched video, grouped by conference and year, in upload-date order. Each video links to the original YouTube URL. MB = Mad Bitcoins · WCN = World Crypto Network. Guest attributions are extracted from titles + descriptions; "→ X, Y" lists named Bitcoin figures detected per video.
— · 1 videos · 1 MB
— · 1 videos · 1 WCN
Washington DC · 16 videos · 3 MB · 13 WCN
Las Vegas · 10 videos · 10 WCN
New Hampshire · 8 videos · 8 WCN
Las Vegas · 4 videos · 4 MB
— · 1 videos · 1 WCN
San Francisco · 23 videos · 23 MB
Raleigh · 1 videos · 1 WCN
Berlin · 9 videos · 9 WCN
Miami · 23 videos · 23 MB
San Francisco · 1 videos · 1 MB
Prague · 29 videos · 29 WCN
Stanford · 6 videos · 6 MB
Riga · 20 videos · 20 WCN
Denver · 1 videos · 1 WCN
Prague · 28 videos · 28 WCN
— · 1 videos · 1 WCN
Cluj-Napoca · 6 videos · 6 WCN
Las Vegas · 2 videos · 2 WCN
Caribbean · 1 videos · 1 MB
Las Vegas · 2 videos · 2 WCN
Las Vegas · 26 videos · 26 WCN
Miami · 8 videos · 8 MB
Las Vegas · 1 videos · 1 WCN
Named Bitcoin / crypto figures detected in the title or description of each matched conference video, ranked by appearance count. Whisper / spelling variants ("Antonopolus", "Booterin", "Sabo") are collapsed into the canonical name. Counts are per video — a single video that names two guests counts both.
Caveat: the title is the strongest signal. A Baltic Honeybadger interview titled "Interview with Adam Back from Blockstream" credits Back; the same conference's "Tom and Max introduce…" video credits no named guest even though the room was full of them. So this leaderboard undercounts guests who weren't the headline of the video they appeared in.
Who actually held the mic. Mad Bitcoins videos default to Thomas Hunt unless the title says otherwise. World Crypto Network is murkier — the channel ran multiple cohosts in rotation and at conferences a single trip would be covered by two or three of them. Detected named interviewers below; otherwise WCN videos are flagged "attribution uncertain" — best guess from the era is some combination of Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, Theo Goodman, AnnaKNonE, or Tom (WCN producer).
| Interviewer | Videos | Era / context |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Hunt (Mad Bitcoins) | 117 | 2013–present. Default attribution for all MB on-site interviews. |
| WCN cohost (attribution uncertain) | 98 | Pre-2018 WCN tour videos where no host is named in the title. Could be Tone, Jimmy, Theo, or AnnaKNonE. |
| Tone Vays (WCN) | 13 | 2017–2018 WCN era. Named host of multiple Baltic Honeybadger 2018 + HCPP 2018 interviews. |
| AnnaKNonE (WCN — Berlin trip) | 9 | March 2015. Solo cohost crediting on the Inside Bitcoins Berlin run. |
| Jimmy Song (WCN) | 3 | 2017–2018 WCN era. The Epoch Times + HCPP 2018 appearances. |
| Tom + Max (WCN, Baltic Honeybadger) | 1 | September 2018. Riga producer team intro shots. |
Topics detected per video (a video can hit multiple buckets — a 2017 interview about Lightning that also mentions BCH counts in both). Bucketed by upload year.
Conference cities where the camera actually went, ranked by interview-video count.
Prague tops the list because WCN ran 50+ #HCPP18 interviews in October 2018 — a single conference, sustained nightly upload cadence. Las Vegas is second largely because of Mad Bitcoins's Unconfiscatable runs (2019–2020). Miami's number is split across multiple TNABC years (2014–2018) plus the 2022 Bitcoin Magazine event MB followed up on in early 2023. San Francisco is almost entirely CoinCongress.
Source corpus is the local media-archives/mad-bitcoins-mirror/metadata/ directory — every .info.json yt-dlp emitted while mirroring both channels: 720 for Mad Bitcoins, 1588 for World Crypto Network. Canonical channel-output figures from prior inventories (MB 594, WCN 1,568) refer to the deduplicated public count; the metadata mirror is slightly larger because it captured private / unlisted / re-uploaded items too. The numbers in this report are over the metadata file count actually on disk, not the canonical published count.
Detection runs in two passes:
Filters: recurring desk shows (The Bitcoin Group, Today in Bitcoin, Daily Decrypt, Bitcoin Knights, Coin Brief, #LIVE Bitcoin $XXX price-roundup format) are excluded — even when they mention a conference name. The MB news-roundup pattern "Headline -- Headline -- Headline" is allowed through, because Thomas occasionally smuggles an on-site segment into a roundup.
Known gaps:
Data file: conference_dataset.json in this directory.
All 229 matched conference-interview videos, sorted by upload date. Every link goes to the original YouTube watch URL.