This is where the Thomas Hunt Show and its older sibling part ways. The Bitcoin Talk Show was built on the phone line; THS used one mostly during the March crash, when the markets were moving too fast for a monologue. After June the phones go nearly silent and the live chat takes over as the audience channel.
Dashed lines mark the phase breaks (March crash desk / summer news desk / autumn coda). The spike is 2020-03-13 — “Bitcoin $4806 #LIVE CALL-IN -Ok Maybe Panic. Like & Subscribe - THS #008” — the crash-day open-lines special.
| Caller | Calls |
|---|---|
| Jack (Seattle) | 1 |
| Walid | 1 |
| Paul | 1 |
| Sean (Pasadena, California) | 1 |
| Dominic | 1 |
| Sean | 1 |
| Bill (Sioux City) | 1 |
Names as Whisper heard them. Callers whose names were garbled past recognition are counted in the totals but not listed — nobody gets invented here.
“What's on your mind about Bitcoin or any of the other topics we talked about today?”(unattributed) — 2020-03-03
“is that we have this instant reaction of, it's not this bitcoins, so it must be cracked.”(unattributed) — 2020-03-04
“Cliff Hanger, not so much a fan, although it is kind of, it gets kind of funnier, I think the more you watch it.”(unattributed) — 2020-03-05
“I was just thinking last night Bitcoin was going to crash more, you know, and it's just like, when you feel it, you know, you don't act on it, and then it happened.”Jack from Seattle — 2020-03-12