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The World Crypto Network
playlist atlas128 shows mapped, one by one.

WCN's channel page calls itself "World Crypto Network." Under the hood, it's not a channel at all — it's a constellation of 128 curated playlists, stretching back to October 2013, that quietly orchestrate twelve years of bitcoin coverage into yearly archives, weekly shows, conference travelogues, hardware-wallet tutorials, Austrian-economics reading clubs, and a half-forgotten roster of cohosts whose tenures end without ceremony when their playlist simply stops updating. This is the full topology.

128 playlists · 1,568 unique live+video episodes · TBG 482 · TIB 234 · Indexed via yt-dlp · Verified May 18 2026
128
Total playlists on @WorldCryptoNetwork
7,767
Playlist slots filled (with heavy duplication)
1,568
Unique live + video episodes (per WCN)
12+
Years on tape (Oct 2013 → May 2026)
Executive summary

A network in playlist form.


World Crypto Network is the older, scrappier, less-corporate older sibling of "Mad Bitcoins." Thomas Hunt has hosted the flagship show, The Bitcoin Group, every Friday since October 19, 2013. Around it, WCN accreted other shows — a daily news brief, a Monday call-in, an interview series, a half-dozen guest-hosted experiments — and then froze them at various points into 128 YouTube playlists that serve as both the channel's table of contents and a quiet archaeological record of who passed through.

Across those 128 playlists sit 7,767 video slots — but that number is inflated by deliberate cross-listing. The same episode of TBG might appear in TBG ALL, in The Bitcoin Group (2018), in WCN – Live (2018), in World Crypto Network – Recent Videos, and in a one-off conference recap. The unique catalog is the 1,568 live and video episodes WCN itself publishes as its total. Roughly a third — 482 — are episodes of The Bitcoin Group. About 234 are Today in Bitcoin. The rest is everything else: Bitcoin Talk Show, The Bitcoin News Show, Transmission, One-on-One, FutureRant, Dark News, Bitcoin Rush, You, Me, and BTC, Mad Potcoins, The Flipside — most of them dormant for years, all of them still pinned to the channel front like photographs in an attic.

The biggest single playlist is the rolling World Crypto Network – Recent Videos (1,161 entries — essentially a flat dump of everything new). The most-loaded curated playlist is TBG ALL at 462. The most populated single-year archive is WCN – Live (2018) at 398, which doubles as a portrait of how much WCN livestreamed during peak altseason. The smallest non-dead playlist is the single-entry Bitcoin Halving (Halvening) Shows, which contains exactly one video: the 2024 halving party.

What the topology reveals: WCN was always conceived as a network, not a channel. It hosted other people's shows — Andy Hoffman's One-on-One, Marni Chan's MidasMarni, Jamie Nelson's Jamie Nelson, Mike Dupree's Hi Everybody, Max Hillebrand's four overlapping series, Joesmoe's Joesmoe Show, Margaryta DeCrypt's Let's Meet, Gabriel D Vine's FutureRant, a "WCN Spotlight" sub-collection for each of Andreas Antonopoulos, Adam Back, Peter Todd, Eric Lombrozo, and Vitalik Buterin. The playlist gallery below is therefore not a content menu. It's a guest list. Most of the guests left.

Gallery · 128 playlists

The full playlist atlas.


Every playlist on @WorldCryptoNetwork as of May 18, 2026, grouped by role. Counts come from yt-dlp's flat-playlist read of each list. Active / dormant is judged on whether new episodes are still arriving in 2025–2026.

TBG Bitcoin Group family TIB Today in Bitcoin / news COHOST Cohost-driven series CONF Conference travelogue TECH Tutorial / tooling ACTIVE · DORMANT
The Bitcoin Group · franchise + yearly archives
TBG ALL
The master TBG archive · 462 episodes
TBGActive · 462 ep
The Bitcoin Group
The rolling "current" TBG list · 312 ep
TBGActive · 312 ep
Bitcoin Group · Year End Spectaculars
Annual review specials · 6 ep
TBGActive · 6 ep
Bitcoin Halving (Halvening) Shows
2024 halving party · 1 ep
TBGDormant · 1 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2013)
TBG #001–010, Oct–Dec 2013 · 10 ep
TBGArchived · 10 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2014)
TBG #11–60 · 50 ep
TBGArchived · 50 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2015)
TBG #62–82 (#61 missing) · 21 ep
TBGArchived · 21 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2016)
TBG #84–122 · 39 ep
TBGArchived · 39 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2017)
TBG #123–169 · 47 ep
TBGArchived · 47 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2018)
TBG #170–189 · 20 ep
TBGArchived · 20 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2019)
TBG #190–207 · 18 ep
TBGArchived · 18 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2020)
TBG #208–241 · 34 ep
TBGArchived · 34 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2021)
TBG #242–289 · 51 ep
TBGArchived · 51 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2022)
TBG #290–339 · 50 ep
TBGArchived · 50 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2023)
TBG #340–389 · 52 ep
TBGArchived · 52 ep
The Bitcoin Group (2024)
TBG #390–436 · 47 ep
TBGRecent · 47 ep
WCN — yearly Live + Videos archives
WCN — Recent Videos
Rolling firehose · 1,161 ep
Active · 1,161 ep
WCN — Live (2023)
All 2023 livestreams · 72 ep
Archived · 72 ep
WCN — Live (2022)
All 2022 livestreams · 55 ep
Archived · 55 ep
WCN — Live (2021)
All 2021 livestreams · 101 ep
Archived · 101 ep
WCN — Live (2020)
Pandemic-era livestream wall · 253 ep
Archived · 253 ep
WCN — Live (2019)
Conference touring year · 118 ep
Archived · 118 ep
WCN — Live (2018)
Peak-livestream year · 398 ep
Archived · 398 ep
WCN — Live (2017)
ICO boom livestreams · 305 ep
Archived · 305 ep
WCN — Live (2016)
96 ep
Archived · 96 ep
WCN — Live (2015)
98 ep
Archived · 98 ep
WCN — Live (2014)
Foundation year · 248 ep
Archived · 248 ep
WCN — Videos (2023)
Edited / non-live · 13 ep
Archived · 13 ep
WCN — Videos (2022)
Edited / non-live · 18 ep
Archived · 18 ep
WCN — Videos (2021)
45 ep
Archived · 45 ep
WCN — Videos (2020)
Pandemic Proof-of-Work uploads · 149 ep
Archived · 149 ep
WCN — Videos (2019)
Wasabi / Lightning / Op Tech wave · 347 ep
Archived · 347 ep
WCN — Videos (2018)
HCPP / Honeybadger / Malta · 203 ep
Archived · 203 ep
WCN — Videos (2017)
18 ep
Archived · 18 ep
WCN — Videos (2016)
Transmission / Ecuadorian Embassy era · 167 ep
Archived · 167 ep
WCN — Videos (2015)
161 ep
Archived · 161 ep
WCN — Videos (2014)
MidasMarni / Dark News debut year · 207 ep
Archived · 207 ep
News, daily & flagship recaps
Today in Bitcoin
Daily news brief · 266 slots (~234 live)
TIBDormant · 234 ep
Sunday Recap
Weekly TIB roundup · 8 ep
TIBDormant · 8 ep
The Bitcoin News Show
2014–18, 83 episodes · 83 ep
Retired · 83 ep
Bitcoin Talk Show
Monday call-in show · 199 ep
Dormant · 199 ep
World Crypto Network #LIVE
2020 24/7 price-headline loop · 60 ep
Retired · 60 ep
THS — Thomas Hunt Show
Pandemic-era call-in · 95 ep
Retired · 95 ep
WCN Recent — Jan 2020
Frozen one-month snapshot · 22 ep
Frozen · 22 ep
Legacy WCN shows · early-era roster
Transmission
2014–16 altcoin interview show · 54 ep
Retired · 54 ep
You, Me, and BTC
YMB Podcast, eps 92–158 · 67 ep
Retired · 67 ep
Bitcoin Rush
Eline Heuvink interview show · 39 ep
Retired · 39 ep
Dark News
2014 darknet/altcoin news · 27 ep
Retired · 27 ep
Mad Potcoins
PotCoin / cannabis-coin satire · 41 ep
Retired · 41 ep
The Flipside
Theo Goodman / DJ Booth · 19 ep
Retired · 19 ep
FutureRant
Gabriel D Vine + Vinay Gupta · 8 ep
COHOSTRetired · 8 ep
Blocktalk
Cabbage.Tech / Tendermint interviews · 21 ep
Retired · 21 ep
This Week in Cryptos
S2 episodic news · 18 ep
Retired · 18 ep
Crypto Convos
Includes Patrick Byrne (Overstock) · 9 ep
Retired · 9 ep
On the Record
PIVX / Veritaseum / Vaultoro · 5 ep
Retired · 5 ep
Off Chain
Bitcoin Gold & SegWit2x era · 10 ep
Retired · 10 ep
Cohost & guest-host series · the WCN "network"
Crypto Audio Blog (Andy Hoffman)
w/ Andy Hoffman · 39 ep
COHOSTRetired · 39 ep
One-on-One (Andy Hoffman)
w/ Andy Hoffman, 57 episodes · 47 visible
COHOSTRetired · 47 ep
Bitcoin to the Max (Max Hillebrand)
Short-form Bitcoin / Austrian explainers · 64 ep
COHOSTRetired · 64 ep
Open Source Everything (Max Hillebrand)
Hardware-wallet & tooling interviews · 36 ep
COHOSTRetired · 36 ep
Read Rothbard ~ Use Bitcoin (Max H.)
Austrian-economics reading club · 18 ep
COHOSTRetired · 18 ep
Anarchy in Money (Max H.)
3-part series · 3 ep
COHOSTRetired · 3 ep
Future Money (Max H., w/ Niko & Rico)
2 ep
COHOSTRetired · 2 ep
MidasMarni
Marni Chan's interview show · 22 ep
COHOSTRetired · 22 ep
Jamie Nelson
Hong Kong / wallet tutorials · 8 ep
COHOSTRetired · 8 ep
Chris Before Coffee
Chris Ellis short morning rants · 11 ep
COHOSTRetired · 11 ep
Joesmoe Show
Joesmoe weekly recap · 9 ep
COHOSTRetired · 9 ep
Hi Everybody (Mike Dupree)
Aluna · Changelly · ChangeNow · 4 ep
COHOSTRetired · 4 ep
Let's Meet (Margaryta DeCrypt)
Changelly · Jubiter · B2BinPay · 6 ep
COHOSTRetired · 6 ep
Bitcoin Coffee Break
Daily quick-look markets segment · 26 ep
COHOSTRetired · 26 ep
WCN Spotlight · per-person archives
Spotlight — Andreas Antonopoulos
10 ep (incl. private)
SPOTLIGHTFrozen · 10 ep
Spotlight — Adam Back
Blockstream / HCPP appearances · 7 ep
SPOTLIGHTFrozen · 7 ep
Spotlight — Peter Todd
Honeybadger / HCPP / Op Tech · 12 ep
SPOTLIGHTFrozen · 12 ep
Spotlight — Eric Lombrozo
HCPP17 + HCPP18 + Off Chain · 3 ep
SPOTLIGHTFrozen · 3 ep
Spotlight — Vitalik Buterin
London 2015 / Ethereum events · 3 ep
SPOTLIGHTFrozen · 3 ep
Proof of Work — WCN Interviews
Master "Proof of Work" series · 55 ep
SERIESRetired · 55 ep
What was your first computer?
Proof of Work spin-off · 52 ep
SERIESRetired · 52 ep
Conference travelogues
Occupy Hong Kong (2014)
w/ James Bang & Jamie Nelson · 42 ep
CONFClosed · 42 ep
Inside Bitcoins (Berlin 2015)
AnnaKNonE interviews · 9 ep
CONFClosed · 9 ep
Money 20/20 (Las Vegas 2015)
w/ Tatiana Moroz · 10 ep
CONFClosed · 10 ep
The Bit Panel (San Mateo 2015)
3-ep meetup panel · 5 ep
CONFClosed · 5 ep
HCPP — Prague 2017
Hacker's Congress @ Paralelní Polis · 34 ep
CONFClosed · 34 ep
HCPP — Prague 2018
34 ep
CONFClosed · 34 ep
HCPP — Prague 2019
25 ep
CONFClosed · 25 ep
Baltic Honeybadger (Riga 2018)
Latvia's flagship BTC conf · 17 ep
CONFClosed · 17 ep
Malta Blockchain Summit (2018)
13 ep
CONFClosed · 13 ep
East-West CryptoBridge (Frankfurt 2018)
2 ep — barely covered
CONFClosed · 2 ep
Mises University (Vienna 2018)
w/ Max Hillebrand · 18 ep
CONFClosed · 18 ep
Hayek Summer Workshop (Leipzig 2018)
Austrian econ deep dive · 6 ep
CONFClosed · 6 ep
BitBrum (Birmingham 2019)
w/ Dan Eve · 9 ep
CONFClosed · 9 ep
Working Man's Bitcoin Cruise (Mexico 2019)
Proof-of-Work interviews from the boat · 5 ep
CONFClosed · 5 ep
Transylvania Crypto (Romania 2019)
TCConf w/ Nodl & Max · 13 ep
CONFClosed · 13 ep
The Lightning Conference (Berlin 2019)
34 ep
CONFClosed · 34 ep
Unchain Convention (Berlin 2019)
9 ep
CONFClosed · 9 ep
Blockchain Hotel (Essen 2019)
6 ep
CONFClosed · 6 ep
Lightning Hack Day (Berlin 2019)
w/ Fulmo · 15 ep
CONFClosed · 15 ep
Bitcoin Trading Conf (Barcelona 2019)
15 ep
CONFClosed · 15 ep
Breaking Bitcoin (Amsterdam 2019)
Technical / privacy / Cold Card · 10 ep
CONFClosed · 10 ep
Coinfest (Manchester 2019)
Cudo Miner / interviews · 11 ep
CONFClosed · 11 ep
Understanding Bitcoin (Malta 2019)
Wasabi / Schnorr / nodl · 15 ep
CONFClosed · 15 ep
YachtChain — Poolside (Las Vegas 2019)
MadBitcoins' poolside interviews · 5 ep
CONFClosed · 5 ep
Unconfiscatable (Las Vegas 2020)
w/ Tatiana Moroz, Sasha Hodder, Dan Eve · 25 ep
CONFClosed · 25 ep
Lightning Hacksprint (CCC 2020)
Chaos Communication Congress live · 10 ep
CONFClosed · 10 ep
2020 Bitcoin Halving — WCN
Halving stream w/ Max H., Ben Arc, Hannah Rosenberg · 14 ep
CONFClosed · 14 ep
Nostrica (2023)
Few interviews from the Nostr-conf · 4 ep
CONFClosed · 4 ep
San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup
SFBM uploads (incl. Berkeley) · 74 ep
CONFClosed · 74 ep
Silicon Valley Bitcoin Meetup
Berkeley / Tax Law · 3 ep
CONFClosed · 3 ep
Tutorial & tooling miniseries
Wasabi Wallet
Main Wasabi miniseries · 33 ep
TECHRetired · 33 ep
Wasabi Wallet Tutorials
Hands-on Wasabi tutorials · 11 ep
TECHRetired · 11 ep
Wasabi Wallet · Zero-Link Reading
Reading the ZeroLink framework · 14 ep
TECHRetired · 14 ep
Wasabi Wallet Interviews
Nopara + zkSnacks · 7 ep
TECHRetired · 7 ep
LNbits
Open-source Lightning accounts system · 15 ep
TECHRetired · 15 ep
BTCIOT (Bitcoin & IoT, w/ ArcBTC)
ESP32 panic buttons, dead-drops, etc. · 40 ep
TECHRetired · 40 ep
nodl — Bitcoin Full Node
nodl.it · LND / c-lightning hardware · 16 ep
TECHRetired · 16 ep
Cold Card
Coinkite hardware wallet · 14 ep
TECHRetired · 14 ep
DIY Hardware Wallets
$5 Goomba, $15 Koopa, w/ Stepan Snigirev · 4 ep
TECHRetired · 4 ep
GPG + YubiKey
DrDuh-guide walkthrough · 9 ep
TECHRetired · 9 ep
PSBT + Hardware Wallet Integration
Andrew Chow / Nopara / Stepan / NVK · 9 ep
TECHRetired · 9 ep
Understanding Schnorr Signatures
Jonas Nick + Op Tech crossovers · 25 ep
TECHRetired · 25 ep
Bitcoin Op Tech Newsletter
Episode-by-episode breakdown · 48 ep
TECHRetired · 48 ep
bitcoin-dev Mailing List
SegWit v1 · Taproot · Graftroot reads · 13 ep
TECHRetired · 13 ep
Bisq Decentralized Exchange
Install / marketplace / settings walkthrough · 17 ep
TECHRetired · 17 ep
Bitcoin Only
"Reject ever supporting altcoins" miniseries · 12 ep
TECHRetired · 12 ep
Purism
Open-source hardware (Todd Weaver) · 4 ep
TECHRetired · 4 ep
NOSTR
Decentralised-Twitter install tutorials · 2 ep
TECHFrozen · 2 ep
Adventures in NFTs — Curio Cards
McBride / Uhrig / Friedman / Hunt · 14 ep
SERIESClosed · 14 ep
The Ethics of Money Production (Hülsmann)
Chapter-by-chapter Austrian read · 14 ep
SERIESClosed · 14 ep
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (Rothbard)
Rothbard reading · 13 ep
SERIESClosed · 13 ep
Deeper profiles

What the bigger playlists actually contain.


The card grid above is the index. These are the close-reads — what each of WCN's most consequential playlists is for, who hosts it, and what shape it has when you scroll the whole thing.

TBG ALL — the master Bitcoin Group archive

462 episodes · Oct 19, 2013 → ongoing · Thomas Hunt + panel

This is The Bitcoin Group's definitive list — 462 visible episodes of WCN's flagship Friday-news roundtable, including every numbered show from #001 ("Walmart – Amazon – Bitcoin Trust – Bitcoin Mining," Oct 19 2013) through #456 in 2026 ("Price Up, Price Down – Crypto Dinner – Bank Stablecoin"). It contains a number of [Private video] entries, mostly former-cohost episodes that were quietly taken down rather than reshot; subtracting them gets you to roughly the 482 unique TBG episodes WCN claims for the franchise. The cohost rotation tells a parallel story of the bitcoin commentariat: Jameson Lopp, Tone Vays, Andreas Antonopoulos, Jimmy Song, Theo Goodman, Adam B. Levine, Ragnar Lifthrasir, Adam Meister, Max Hillebrand, Dan Eve. The Year-End Spectaculars at #62, #122, #338, #389 sit inside this list and double as informal state-of-the-network audits.

Today in Bitcoin — the daily news brief

266 slots · ~234 live episodes · 2018–2021 daily, then occasional · Thomas Hunt solo

The flagship daily companion to TBG, hosted nearly always by Thomas Hunt alone, in a tight 6–12 minute format reading the day's bitcoin headlines. The earliest episodes in the playlist are dated "2018-01-05 – Visa shuts down Bitcoin Debit Cards – Bitcoin breaks $16,000." The series becomes daily through 2020 ("TiB: Lightning Labs raises $10M – Coronavirus 2020-02-05") and then accelerates through the 2021 retail rally ("Bitcoin Tops $54K Again," "All you need is 0.01 to be Rich"). After spring 2021, releases slow dramatically and the show effectively winds down by year-end. The 234 figure WCN publishes for TIB matches the public/non-private subset of this 266-slot playlist — the gap is purely private/deleted episodes. There is also a Sunday Recap sub-list with 8 entries: Hunt's weekly digest of his own TIBs from March 2021.

WCN — Live (2018) — the busiest year on tape

398 episodes · Jan 2018 → Dec 2018 · everyone

The single largest yearly archive on the channel, and the cleanest portrait of WCN's most ambitious year. 2018 is when the network ran TBG, daily TIB, the Bitcoin News Show, Bitcoin Talk Show, Off Chain, Bitcoin Coffee Break, and a series of conference travelogues (Honeybadger Riga, Malta Summit, HCPP18, East-West Frankfurt, Mises U, Hayek Leipzig) concurrently. The catalogue runs from "Today in Bitcoin – Visa shuts down Bitcoin Debit Cards – Bitcoin breaks $16,000" (Jan 5) through the post-Honeybadger conference dump in late September and the Q4 bear-market recaps. No subsequent year matches it for volume.

One-on-One with Andy Hoffman

57 episodes (47 visible) · 2017–2018 · Andy Hoffman

Andy Hoffman — formerly of Miles Franklin / GoldMoney — hosted both Crypto Audio Blog (39 episodes of monologue commentary) and a parallel one-on-one interview series. The interview list reads like a mid-cycle 2018 guest book: Adam Meister (eps 10, 54, 57), Ansel Lindner (53), Mike Krieger (11), Chris DeRose (10), Ran NeuNer (55), Edward Blake ("The Renegade Investor," 12). Episode count jumps from 10 to 57 in roughly twelve months. Hoffman's voice was the closest thing WCN had to a daily op-ed columnist; when his playlists go dormant in 2018, an entire register of opinionated bitcoin commentary leaves the network with him.

The Max Hillebrand sub-network

123 episodes across four playlists · 2018–2020 · Max Hillebrand

No other cohost left as wide a footprint on WCN as Max Hillebrand. His four overlapping playlists — Bitcoin to the Max (64 short explainers on Lightning channels, Austrian econ basics, voluntary exchange), Open Source Everything (36 hardware-wallet / Wasabi / nodl interviews), Read Rothbard ~ Use Bitcoin (18 long-form conversations with Giacomo Zucco, Ansel Lindner, Bitcoin Rabbi, Jimmy/Blake/Niko), and the 3-part Anarchy in Money / 2-part Future Money — function collectively as a Bitcoin / Austrian economics curriculum hosted on WCN's infrastructure. Hillebrand also fronted the Wasabi-wallet sub-stack and the bulk of the 2019 Berlin/Riga conference travelogues. When his contributions taper off in 2020, the network's technical-tutorial output drops sharply.

The 2014 cohort — MidasMarni, Jamie Nelson, Chris Before Coffee, Dark News

98 episodes combined · 2014 only · multiple hosts

WCN's 2014 roster is the most poignant slice of the archive. MidasMarni (Marni Chan, 22 eps) interviewed Circle, BitcoinComic, BitcoinBulls and others — gone after that one year. Jamie Nelson (8 eps) did Hong Kong livestreams, Ledger Wallet unboxings, GPG tutorials, then disappeared. Chris Ellis ran Chris Before Coffee — 11 morning rants about "Justice on the Bitcoin Blockchain," "Abandon All Hope, Recognising Fraud." Dark News (27 eps, hosted by Theo Goodman et al.) covered Heartbleed, Tor, FedoraCoin, the Bitcoin Bear-Whale, Monero "Coin Killer" exploits. None of these playlists update after 2015. They are the network's earliest layer of sediment — and the clearest evidence WCN was attempting an actual network model, not a one-host channel.

Bitcoin Rush — the European feed

39 episodes · 2014–2015 · Eline Heuvink / Elaha Mahboob

The closest thing to an internationalised WCN sub-show: weekly crypto-news episodes featuring rotating European voices, with regular inserts from The Open Minute, Bull Bear Analytics, and interviews with Andreas Antonopoulos, Andrey Zamovskiy (HolyTransaction), and others. The format was already drifting toward "altcoin promo" by ep 36; it stops at #39 and never returns. Together with Transmission (54 eps) and Blocktalk (21 eps), it represents the WCN of altcoin-curious 2014–2015.

The Wasabi / Lightning / Op Tech wave — 2019

~210 episodes across 10 playlists · 2019 · Max Hillebrand + ArcBTC + Nopara

2019 is when WCN pivoted hardest into technical content. Wasabi Wallet gets four playlists (main, tutorials, ZeroLink reading, interviews) for 65 combined episodes. LNbits gets 15. BTCIOT with ArcBTC runs 40 ESP32 / hardware tutorials. nodl gets 16; Cold Card 14; PSBT + Hardware Wallet Integration 9; Schnorr Signatures 25; Bitcoin Op Tech Newsletter 48; bitcoin-dev mailing list 13; Bisq 17. Aggregated, this is the most technically dense year in WCN's twelve-year run — and likely the period when the channel was most useful as a reference rather than as commentary.

HCPP — Hacker's Congress at Paralelní Polis (2017, 2018, 2019)

93 episodes across three years · Prague · Thomas Hunt + Tone Vays + Max Hillebrand + Dan Eve

WCN's most sustained conference commitment. Three consecutive years of Prague coverage, each with its own playlist: 2017 (34 eps, "Interview with Eric Lombrozo with Tone Vays & Thomas Hunt"), 2018 (34 eps, "Interview with Peter Todd & Giacomo Zucco"), 2019 (25 eps, "Interview with Paul Puey from Edge Wallet"). The collective HCPP archive is one of the most complete English-language records of the Paralelní Polis era of cypherpunk Bitcoin — and a useful counterweight to the largely American Honeybadger / Unconfiscatable tape.

Occupy Hong Kong (2014)

42 episodes · Sept–Oct 2014 (plus later coda) · Jamie Nelson + James Bang

The strangest playlist on the channel. In autumn 2014, WCN covered the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement live — Jamie Nelson and James Bang on the ground, regular phone-ins to Thomas Hunt in LA. The first 35 entries are real-time field reporting ("LIVE from Hong Kong Occupy Central," "LIVE Press Conference w/ James Bang 10-5-2014"). The playlist's last few entries were quietly appended years later — TBG episodes from 2020 that mention Hong Kong in the chyron ("TBG #223 – Trump v. Twitter," "Hong Kong is Done"). It's the only WCN playlist that functions as a long-running topic feed rather than a show, and one of very few that mixes archival material with later commentary on the same theme.

Adventures in NFTs — The History of Curio Cards

14 episodes · 2021–2022 · Thomas Hunt + Curio Cards artists

The most personally-Thomas-Hunt playlist on the channel. Curio Cards are the first art-NFT collection on Ethereum (May 2017), and Hunt is one of the co-creators. This series — 14 episodes, interviews with Adam McBride, Travis Uhrig, Daniel Friedman, Max Infeld, Luis Buenaventura, plus the 4th-anniversary party stream — is the closest WCN has come to serializing its own founder's other career. It's also the one playlist where the dating and editorial care suggest someone intended it as a documentary, not a content drop.

World Crypto Network — Recent Videos · the firehose

1,161 entries · rolling · auto-built

The largest playlist on the channel and the least curated: an undated auto-built feed that mirrors whatever is currently being uploaded plus a long tail of legacy entries. It's useful for one thing — establishing that WCN's unique live+video catalog (1,568 episodes) is roughly 25% larger than this "recent" pile, which tells you how much of the archive lives only inside the curated yearly playlists. If WCN ever rebuilds its frontpage, this is the playlist that should be deprecated first.

Essay I

WCN as a network, not a channel.


The single most important thing to understand about World Crypto Network is that its name is literal. WCN was never conceived as a single Thomas Hunt YouTube channel. It was conceived — in the strict pre-streaming sense of the word — as a network: a stable of crypto shows under one banner, hosted by different people, on different schedules, with different audiences, sharing one URL and one moderately consistent green bug in the corner of the screen.

The playlist topology proves this almost too perfectly. Of the 128 playlists on the channel, only about a third are TBG, TIB or the yearly-archive bins. The other ~80 are individual shows: Bitcoin Talk Show, The Bitcoin News Show, Transmission, Off Chain, On the Record, FutureRant, You, Me, and BTC, Dark News, Bitcoin Rush, The Flipside, Mad Potcoins, This Week in Cryptos, Crypto Convos, Blocktalk, the Hi Everybody, Let's Meet, Joesmoe Show, MidasMarni, Jamie Nelson, Chris Before Coffee, Bitcoin Coffee Break, plus the four overlapping Max Hillebrand series and two Andy Hoffman series. Each of these has its own host, its own title sequence in many cases, its own subscriber base, and — critically — its own playlist that the host themselves curated. The channel is a venue, not a content brand.

What this tells you about how WCN was organised as a media operation: it was a syndicator first, a producer second. Thomas Hunt's role was less "the host" and more "the program director." He hosted the flagship Friday show, anchored TIB, ran the calendar; everyone else got slots and playlist privileges. The cost of being on WCN, in playlist terms, was zero — your show got a playlist, your playlist got a position on the channel page, and when you stopped uploading, the playlist stayed up. That is a network behaviour, not a channel behaviour. It also explains why so many of the dormant playlists were never tidied away: from WCN's organisational standpoint, a dormant playlist isn't trash. It's an archived programme block.

The corollary is that the playlist gallery is not a curatorial choice. It's an organisational map. WCN's playlist count grew by roughly the rate at which new hosts joined and conferences happened. The technical tooling miniseries of 2019 (Wasabi, LNbits, BTCIOT, nodl, Cold Card) happened because Max Hillebrand and ArcBTC each got effective showrunner privileges over those subnets. The 2014 cohort of Marni Chan, Jamie Nelson, Chris Ellis, Theo Goodman exists because WCN, at age one, behaved like an actual scrappy cable network giving everyone fifteen minutes. The collapse to a one-and-a-half-show channel by 2024 — TBG plus occasional TIB — represents not a strategic pivot but the natural end-state of a network that stopped recruiting new programmes.

"WCN is the only Bitcoin YouTube channel that still hosts
its founders' old guest hosts' old playlists. They are
not on the front page. They are not deleted either."
Essay II

The cohost archives.


The cohost playlists are where WCN's history is most legible — and most melancholy. Each one traces a tenure: a flurry of episodes at the start, a peak, a wind-down, and then permanent silence.

Marni Chan (MidasMarni, 22 eps). Active for roughly nine months in 2014, interviewing Circle, BitcoinComic, BitcoinBulls, and David Smith. By the end of 2014 she's gone. Her playlist is still on the channel front, fourteen items down from the top of the gallery.

Jamie Nelson (8 eps). The 2014 Hong Kong correspondent and de-facto WCN hardware-wallet evangelist (Ledger reviews, GPG/Gpg4Win tutorials). Disappears after the Hong Kong protests die down. His name still tags the Occupy Hong Kong playlist as a co-credit.

Chris Ellis (Chris Before Coffee, 11 eps). A short morning-rant format running roughly Sept–Oct 2014. "Justice on the Bitcoin Blockchain," "Recognising Fraud," "Lessons in Trust." Then nothing. Chris Ellis later appears in The Flipside and The Bitcoin News Show episodes; his solo playlist is frozen.

Theo Goodman (Dark News, The Flipside, scattered cohosts). Goodman ran Dark News (27 eps, 2014) and co-anchored The Flipside (19 eps, 2014–2015). He continued as an occasional TBG cohost into 2018 and shows up in the Honeybadger and East-West Frankfurt conference playlists. He is the rare WCN regular whose tenure extends across multiple playlists over several years — and the only one of the 2014 cohort to bridge the gap into the technical-tutorial era.

Andy Hoffman (Crypto Audio Blog, One-on-One; 86 eps). Hoffman is the only WCN cohost whose entire output runs in 2017–2018 — no earlier, no later. He brought a daily op-ed cadence and a guest-book of Adam Meister, Mike Krieger, Chris DeRose, Ran NeuNer. After 2018 his voice is gone entirely; the two playlists are frozen in lock-step.

Max Hillebrand (123 eps across 4 playlists, ~210 eps if you include hosted Wasabi/conference work). The 2018–2020 superhost. Hillebrand's Bitcoin to the Max, Open Source Everything, Read Rothbard ~ Use Bitcoin, and the smaller Anarchy in Money / Future Money playlists collectively form an entire Austrian-econ-and-privacy-tech sub-channel within WCN. He also fronts the Wasabi sub-network, co-anchors Honeybadger 2018, Mises U 2018, Hayek Leipzig 2018, TCConf 2019, Understanding Bitcoin Malta 2019, and the 2020 Halving stream. When he steps back in 2020, WCN's technical output falls off a cliff.

Mike Dupree (Hi Everybody, 4 eps). A short-lived 2019 interview format — Aluna, Changelly, ChangeNow. Dupree continues to appear in the Blockchain Hotel Essen playlist as a Proof-of-Work interviewee. The show itself dies after four episodes.

Margaryta DeCrypt (Let's Meet, 6 eps). Another short 2019 one — Changelly, Jubiter, B2BinPay, including one Spanish-language entry. Closes at six.

Joesmoe (9 eps). Joesmoe got numbered episodes (#2 through #10). The playlist is in reverse-chrono on the channel; episode #1 is missing.

Gabriel D Vine (FutureRant, 8 eps). A short 4-part interview with Vinay Gupta plus an "Alex Millar" and a "QuickRant #1." Notably listed on the Working Man's Bitcoin Cruise (Mexico 2019) playlist as a Proof-of-Work interviewee — meaning he survives in the WCN archive as a guest even after his own show closes.

What you do not find in the cohost playlists is just as revealing. There is no Tone Vays playlist. Vays appears as a cohost on many TBG episodes — and is named in the title metadata of several HCPP17 interview entries ("HCPP17 - Interview with Eric Lombrozo with Tone Vays & Thomas Hunt") — but never received a dedicated cohost archive. The same goes for Jimmy Song: he appears inside the Max Hillebrand Read Rothbard series ("Bitcoin Education with Jimmy, Blake and Niko"), but does not have a Jimmy Song playlist on the channel. Compare to the WCN Spotlight playlists (Andreas Antonopoulos, Adam Back, Peter Todd, Eric Lombrozo, Vitalik Buterin) — those are guest archives, curated for interview subjects, not for cohosts. WCN's cohost archive is therefore selective: hosts who curated their own playlists got them; hosts who didn't, didn't.

Essay III

Beyond TBG and TIB.


Strip out the TBG family (16 playlists), the yearly Live/Videos archives (21), and TIB plus Sunday Recap (2), and you're left with 89 playlists that almost no casual WCN viewer has ever clicked. These are the deep cuts.

The 2014 originals. Dark News (27 eps, Theo Goodman) is the most accidentally cyberpunk thing on WCN — Tor exploits, Heartbleed, NSA, FedoraCoin, the Bitcoin Bear-Whale. Mad Potcoins (41 eps) is a PotCoin / cannabis-coin satire show that exists, against all reason, and runs longer than several "serious" series. You, Me, and BTC (67 eps) is an actual indie podcast (Daniel Brown & Tim Bukher) that WCN cross-published from episodes 92–158. Crypto Convos (9 eps, Susanne Tarkowski Templehof of BitNation, David Mondrus, Patrick Byrne) is one of the channel's smartest interview series and essentially nobody watches it now.

The Austrian-economics reading club. Three Max Hillebrand playlists — The Ethics of Money Production (Hülsmann, 14 eps), What Has Government Done to Our Money? (Rothbard, 13 eps), Read Rothbard ~ Use Bitcoin (18 eps) — function as a structured reading list. Add Anarchy in Money, Future Money, Mises University (Vienna 2018), and Hayek Summer Workshop (Leipzig 2018), and WCN quietly hosts one of the more complete English-language Austrian-Bitcoin study tracks anywhere. Almost nobody talks about this part of the channel.

The hardware-wallet shelf. Cold Card (14 eps, interviews with NVK), Purism (4 eps, Todd Weaver), nodl (16 eps, Ketominer), DIY Hardware Wallets (4 eps with Stepan Snigirev — $5 Goomba, $15 Koopa), and the four Wasabi playlists (65 combined). Together this is the channel's most pragmatic legacy: how to secure your bitcoin in 2018–2019 using non-Trezor / non-Ledger options.

The Lightning shelf. LNbits (15), BTCIOT (40, ArcBTC), The Lightning Conference (Berlin 2019) (34), Lightning Hack Day (Berlin 2019) (15), Lightning Hacksprint (CCC 2020) (10), PSBT + Hardware Wallet Integration (9). A roughly 120-episode corpus on Lightning that predates the explosion of Lightning-focused YouTube channels.

The retrospectives. Bitcoin Group — Year End Spectaculars (6 eps: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2022, 2023 — the gaps matter), WCN Recent — Jan 2020 (a one-month frozen snapshot nobody has thought to delete), Bitcoin Halving (Halvening) Shows (a one-episode list for the 2024 halving party), 2020 Bitcoin Halving — WCN (14 eps from the 2020 halving stream), What was your first computer? (52 spinoff clips from the Proof of Work interviews — pure feel-good archive).

The conference travelogue, mapped year by year. 2014: Occupy Hong Kong (42). 2015: Inside Bitcoins Berlin (9), Money 20/20 LV (10), The Bit Panel San Mateo (5). 2017: HCPP Prague (34). 2018: Baltic Honeybadger Riga (17), Malta Blockchain Summit (13), HCPP Prague (34), East-West CryptoBridge Frankfurt (2), Mises University Vienna (18), Hayek Summer Workshop Leipzig (6). 2019: BitBrum (9), Working Man's Bitcoin Cruise Mexico (5), HCPP Prague (25), Transylvania Crypto Romania (13), The Lightning Conference Berlin (34), Unchain Convention Berlin (9), Blockchain Hotel Essen (6), Lightning Hack Day Berlin (15), Bitcoin Trading Barcelona (15), Breaking Bitcoin Amsterdam (10), Coinfest Manchester (11), Understanding Bitcoin Malta (15), YachtChain Poolside LV (5). 2020: Unconfiscatable LV (25), Lightning Hacksprint CCC (10), 2020 Halving WCN (14). 2023: Nostrica (4). That's 27 dedicated conference playlists. By 2021 WCN stops travelling.

The orphans. The Flipside (19 eps, DJ Booth / Theo Goodman): the channel's most stylish artifact, all "Flipside Bits" titled with weird ASCII flourishes. FutureRant (8 eps): a Vinay Gupta four-parter that reads like a different channel entirely. Blocktalk (21 eps): Tendermint, Huntercoin, Cabbage.Tech. This Week in Cryptos (18 eps, Season 2): never any Season 1 in the archive — assume it's lost.

Essay IV

What's evolved over 12+ years.


Hold the playlist gallery up against the timeline of the channel and the evolution is impossible to miss. WCN's playlist UX has gone through at least four distinct organisational eras.

Era I: 2013–2015. The proper "network" era. Each new show got its own playlist as soon as it had three episodes. The channel page was an actual programming grid: The Bitcoin Group, The Bitcoin News Show, Bitcoin Talk Show, Transmission, Dark News, Bitcoin Rush, MidasMarni, Mad Potcoins, The Flipside, Chris Before Coffee, Jamie Nelson, You, Me, and BTC, FutureRant, On the Record, Crypto Convos. New shows arrive monthly. Old shows quietly die but stay listed. The Year-End Spectacular tradition starts with TBG #10 in 2013 and TBG #62 in 2014.

Era II: 2016–2018. The yearly-archive era. The channel introduces the WCN — Live (YYYY) and WCN — Videos (YYYY) convention, retroactively binning every previous year into two playlists per year. This is the moment WCN starts treating its own output as an archive. It is also when the Andy Hoffman shows arrive (2017–2018) and bring a daily op-ed cadence; when the dedicated conference playlists start (HCPP17, Honeybadger Riga 2018, Malta 2018); and when The Bitcoin News Show closes at #83.

Era III: 2019–2020. The miniseries era. Max Hillebrand arrives and the playlist count explodes. Every tool gets its own playlist (Wasabi × 4, LNbits, Cold Card, nodl, Bisq, BTCIOT, PSBT, Schnorr, Op Tech, bitcoin-dev). Every conference gets one (13 in 2019 alone). The channel briefly looks like it might pivot to being a technical-reference library. The Hong Kong revival also happens in this era — old playlists getting late additions, which up to that point was rare.

Era IV: 2021–present. The maintenance era. The yearly Live/Videos bins keep getting filled but almost no new playlists are created. The exceptions: Adventures in NFTs / Curio Cards (2021), NOSTR (2 eps, 2022), Nostrica (4 eps, 2023), The Bitcoin Group (2024). The 2024 Halving show is a single entry. TIB stops being daily. The Sunday Recap stops. The cohost slate contracts to TBG-only. WCN, on a playlist basis, is now what it always refused to call itself: a one-show channel with a very long memory.

One more thing worth noticing: YouTube's playlist UX has changed enormously over 12 years — it added thumbnails, descriptions, custom sort, then made playlists progressively less prominent in the channel front-page experience. WCN's playlist hygiene reflects each of those UX moments. The 2013 playlists have no descriptions. The 2018–2020 Hillebrand-curated playlists do (Wasabi gets a 200-word intro pulled from the project's docs; The Ethics of Money Production gets a publisher's blurb). The 2024 playlists are bare again. The hygiene tracks who was paying attention.

Footnotes & sources

Where to verify.


All playlist counts were pulled via yt-dlp --flat-playlist -J against https://www.youtube.com/@WorldCryptoNetwork/playlists on May 18, 2026. Counts include [Private video] and [Deleted video] entries unless otherwise noted. The 1,568 "unique live+video" figure is WCN's published number for the channel's de-duplicated catalog and is roughly 25% smaller than the rolling Recent Videos playlist alone (1,161) — duplication across yearly bins and curated shows accounts for the rest.

Direct playlist links

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WorldCryptoNetwork

Playlists tab: https://www.youtube.com/@WorldCryptoNetwork/playlists

TBG family

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Daily / news

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Cohost archives

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Spotlight & series

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Conferences (selected)

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Tooling / tutorial

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Sibling reports

Mad Bitcoins — The Early Era (2013–2016): /reports/early-mb-era/

TBG view-count decline: /reports/tbg-view-decline/

Bitcoin timeline: /reports/bitcoin-timeline/

Occupy Hong Kong (umbrella revolution): /reports/umbrella-revolution/