Tone went daily. Jimmy went quiet. Thomas Hunt consolidated.

The real headline: consolidation, not collapse.

Pre-2019, WCN was a multi-host network. Thomas Hunt was one voice on it, alongside Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, and others — the prior TBG decline analysis measured Jimmy at ~45.9% and Tone at ~39.3% of TBG voice-mention share in 2017, with Thomas sharing the remaining airtime. Mad Bitcoins was Thomas's solo channel. The Bitcoin Group was a panel show with Thomas plus a rotating cast.

Post-2019, after Tone and Jimmy stopped showing up regularly, MB + WCN + TBG are pretty much all Thomas Hunt. His work didn't disappear — it migrated. His MB output cratered (down 90% on that channel alone), but the WCN channel he now dominates kept publishing 13–15 uploads a month. Across his three channels combined, his Thomas-attributable output went from ~18.9 to ~13.8 uploads/month — a ~27% decline, not a 90% one. He went from one voice in a busy network to ~85% of the airtime on a smaller one.[6]

The original three storylines hold for Tone and Jimmy and as channel-level facts: Tone Vays roughly tripled his personal upload rate (driven by a daily livestream that started in early 2019); Jimmy Song roughly quartered his (the “Off Chain” podcast tapered, livestreams stopped in mid-2020). What's revised here is Thomas: his per-channel MB collapse is real, but it's the wrong unit of analysis — his work consolidated onto WCN and TBG rather than collapsing outright.

Thomas didn't go silent. He went from 40% MB / 60% WCN to 8% MB / 92% WCN, and his total cadence took a 27% trim, not a 90% one.

Before and after WCN, on their own channels.

Each row is one channel's full upload history split at January 1, 2019 — the boundary the prior TBG cohost analysis identified as the end of Tone's and Jimmy's regular cohost presence. Rate is videos per month, averaged across the entire pre- and post- windows. “All uploads” combines the channel's videos tab and streams tab. Shorts are excluded (Tone Vays has 0–1 Shorts on his channel; nobody else has any).

His three channels, attributed and summed.

Thomas Hunt published across three brands — Mad Bitcoins (his solo channel), The Bitcoin Group (a panel show), and World Crypto Network (the parent network, which carries TBG and TIB as recurring shows). Per-channel data alone undercounts his real cadence because his work moved between them. This section attributes each channel's monthly output to Thomas using time-varying shares and sums to a single “Thomas Hunt total” series.

Monthly upload count, each channel.

One chart per channel. The dashed vertical line is January 2019 (the cohost-fade boundary). “Videos” (solid) is the channel's Videos tab; “Streams” (dotted) is the Live tab. Y axis is monthly count.

All four channels, normalized.

All four personal/network channels on the same y-axis, monthly total uploads (videos + streams). The dashed line is the January 2019 boundary. Tone's post-2019 daily-livestream era is visually unmistakable.

What counts as “a video.”

YouTube splits a channel into three upload buckets — Videos, Live (streams), and Shorts. This report counts the first two and excludes Shorts, on the grounds that vertical phone-format Shorts are a different format and a different production effort. The breakdown across these four channels:

Brand-archive figures (594, 1,568, 482, 234) are the curated unique live+video totals per brand. The yt-dlp-visible figures for MB and WCN run higher because they include premieres, scheduled-stream placeholders, and reupload variants; brand totals are used here as the canonical counts. Tone Vays's output is almost entirely streams, not produced videos — 1,743 livestream uploads vs 74 cut-and-edited videos. That 95.9%-stream profile is the signature of a daily-show host. Jimmy Song's mix is closer to 60/40 video/stream; he stopped livestreaming entirely in 2020. MB and WCN are weighted toward streams because the live-news format was the core product.

So — did leaving WCN slow them down?

For Tone Vays: no, the opposite. Tone's personal-channel output rate roughly tripled around the same time he was fading from regular WCN cohosting. The mechanism is clear in the chart: starting in early 2019 he began uploading daily livestreams (“Trading Bitcoin”), and that cadence persisted at 25–30 streams/month for several years before tapering off in 2024. Whatever WCN had been providing him, it wasn't a venue without which he couldn't produce.

For Jimmy Song: yes, his output dropped by about three-quarters. Jimmy launched “Off Chain with Jimmy Song” in late 2017 at a near-daily cadence and kept that up through 2018. From 2019 onward the cadence loosened, and from mid-2020 onward livestreams stopped entirely. His own channel went from ~18 uploads/month to ~4. This is the trajectory you'd predict if WCN had been a regular forcing function.

For Thomas Hunt: not really — he consolidated. The MB channel went dormant (down 90% on that one channel), but Thomas is also — and increasingly, the constant voice on — The Bitcoin Group and the broader WCN feed. Adding the three together with reasonable attribution shares, his work didn't collapse; it moved. From ~18.9 attributable uploads/month pre-2019 (40% MB / 60% WCN) to ~13.8/month post-2019 (8% MB / 92% WCN). A real decline, but a 27% one, not a 90% one. The MB-alone framing massively overstates the change because it ignores that the WCN airtime he previously shared with Tone, Jimmy, and rotating panelists is now mostly his.

The honest read is that the 2018–19 boundary was a real inflection point for Jimmy and (in reverse) Tone, but for Thomas the inflection was a mix-shift rather than a cliff. The per-channel collapse and the WCN half-strength number are the same person consolidating his work onto one platform — not three independent declines.

Tone went daily. Jimmy went quiet. Thomas didn't disappear — he became WCN.

Channel metrics: subs, views, and one Silver Play Button.

The body of this report is about upload rate — how often each channel publishes. This appendix flips to the other side of the ledger: how many people are watching, how that audience grew, and which channels crossed YouTube's reward thresholds. Current snapshot is pulled from each channel's /about tab on 2026-05-18 via direct HTML scrape; historical anchors are individually sourced (see chart footers).

Where each channel stands on 2026-05-18.

Pulled live from each channel's About page. Subscriber and view counts are YouTube's own rounded values; the video count is the channel's reported total (which includes premieres, scheduled-stream placeholders, and reupload variants — the canonical brand-archive counts from earlier in this report, e.g. MB 594 / WCN 1,568, are the cleaner figures for upload-rate analysis).

One plaque among four channels. YouTube awards a Silver Play Button at 100,000 subscribers, a Gold at 1,000,000, and a Diamond at 10,000,000. Of the four channels here, only Tone Vays has crossed the Silver threshold. None are within an order of magnitude of Gold. The Silver date for Tone (Feb 27, 2021) is from third-party YouTube-stats reporting (90K on Mar 1, 2020 → 100K on Feb 27, 2021), which we could verify against the daily-livestream era that started in early 2019 and was running at 25–30 streams/month through the 2021 crypto bull run.[8]

The shape of each channel's audience.

Reading subscribers and views against the upload-rate story.

The body of this report concluded that Tone went daily, Jimmy went quiet, and Thomas Hunt consolidated rather than collapsed. The audience side mostly confirms the same shape, with one twist worth pulling out.

Tone's 220% upload increase did correspond to an audience increase — and to the only plaque in the cohort. The personal-channel daily livestream cadence that started in early 2019 didn't go into the void; he crossed 90K subs by March 2020 and the 100K Silver Play Button threshold on Feb 27, 2021. The bull run helped, of course, but the channel is now at 121K subs and 15.9M lifetime views — an order of magnitude above the next-biggest channel in this set. At 8,734 views per uploaded video he's getting roughly four times the per-upload watch of any of the other three channels. The daily-show format was rewarded; the upload rate and the audience rate moved together.

Jimmy Song's audience plateau matches his upload plateau. The drop from ~18 to ~4 uploads/month after 2019 corresponded to the channel stalling out around 28K subs and 1.45M total views. He's been at roughly this size for several years now. Views per video of 2,247 is fine but not growing; the channel reads as a maintenance-mode archive of the Off Chain era rather than an active growth project. The audience numbers don't suggest he's uploading into the void — he just isn't uploading much.

The Thomas Hunt picture is the surprise. Aggregating his brands, MB sits at 7.3K subs and 890K lifetime views — much smaller than WCN at 52.3K subs and 6.83M views. WCN is roughly seven times the audience and roughly eight times the views of the MB solo channel. So the “consolidation, not collapse” story from the upload-rate analysis is even stronger on the audience side: not only did Thomas's work migrate to WCN, but WCN was always the larger audience. The MB-only collapse narrative read as a 90% drop because it ignored that the WCN side of the operation was — in subscribers and views — the dominant property all along. His 13.8 attributable uploads/month post-2019 are landing on a property with ~7× the subscriber base of the channel he “abandoned.”

The surprising finding: view count is a worse predictor than channel-popularity intuition would suggest. Tone Vays has 2.3× WCN's subscribers but 2.3× their views as well — consistent. But Mad Bitcoins (7.3K subs) has 890K views, which is ~62% of Jimmy Song's lifetime view total despite Jimmy having ~4× the subscriber count. The MB legacy archive from the 2013–14 era still gets watched, even with the upload cadence near zero. Channels accumulate views differently than they accumulate subscribers, especially when the catalog includes early-bitcoin-era content that newcomers still find via search.

Caveats to be honest about. Without SocialBlade we don't have the actual month-by-month subscriber and view curves — only the endpoints and a few sourced anchors. The lifetime average monthly views figure smooths over what was almost certainly a 2020–21 bull-run spike (especially for Tone Vays) followed by tapering. vidIQ reports Tone gained zero subscribers in the last 30 days and got just 4,110 views, with $34 in estimated monthly earnings — the channel is well past its peak even though the lifetime totals look strong. The same is likely true for the others. Treat these numbers as a lifetime ledger, not a current pulse.

Tone is the only one with a plaque, but Thomas Hunt's WCN has seven times the audience of his Mad Bitcoins flagship — the consolidation story is bigger on the watch side than on the upload side.