World Crypto NetworkMar 3 – Nov 8, 2020

The Thomas Hunt Show

One host, one pandemic, and a live chat doing the work of a phone line. Mined from the archive, not from memory.
Thomas Hunt, solo@MadBitcoins
The Chat Was the Co-Host
162
on-air chat reads mined
29
episodes where the chat got read
23
chat participants named on air
0
super-chat mentions found

A solo show is never actually solo if it’s live. The transcripts show Thomas working the chat like a switchboard — “let’s see what’s going on in the chat,” relaying questions, taking program notes, crediting donations. In March, with the world on fire, the chat was triage: virus tips, market calls, movie recommendations for quarantine. The phrase “super chat” appears exactly 0 times in fifty-four transcripts — support came as direct Bitcoin donations and Patreon, called out by name instead.

One more data point, from July 24: “I’m not sure the chat is working. We might have been shadow band. We don’t get a chat anymore.” Even the co-host had platform trouble.

Chat reads per episode
2020-03-03: 122020-03-04: 102020-03-05: 82020-03-06: 52020-03-07: 12020-03-08: 42020-03-09: 62020-03-10: 102020-03-10: 102020-03-12: 32020-03-13: 262020-03-13: 12020-03-16: 02020-03-16: 222020-03-17: 142020-06-04: 02020-06-06: 02020-06-07: 62020-06-08: 02020-06-10: 02020-06-11: 32020-06-12: 12020-06-14: 32020-06-15: 12020-06-16: 02020-06-17: 02020-06-18: 12020-06-19: 12020-06-20: 02020-06-21: 02020-06-22: 32020-06-23: 22020-06-25: 02020-06-26: 02020-06-27: 02020-06-29: 02020-06-30: 12020-07-01: 02020-07-02: 02020-07-03: 02020-07-16: 02020-07-24: 12020-08-03: 02020-08-23: 42020-08-24: 12020-08-25: 02020-08-26: 02020-08-26: 02020-08-27: 02020-09-02: 02020-09-22: 12020-10-04: 02020-10-09: 12020-11-08: 0Mar 2020Nov 2020

On-air references to the chat per episode, in date order. The dense left edge is March 2020: more chat interaction in the crash fortnight than in the rest of the run combined. The summer news-desk episodes read fewer comments on air, by design — the news itself had gotten long.

The regulars, by on-air callouts

Name CalloutsEpisodes
Jeremy Sagers75
Zaza Zaza54
Dan Trev22
Martin22
Ben21
BB Cameron11
Voss11
Chewie11
Harmony11
M-B-T-C11
Sheffield11
Malcolm11
Alleriza11
Derek11
Tyler Jank11
Yuvaz11
Byzantine11
Xantium General11
Jennifer11
Gerbots11
Quasim Rashad11
Shine Fuel11
Star Duster11

Handles as the transcript heard them — “Zaza,” who funded the fundraiser, may well be the same person as “Zaza Zaza.” No merging was attempted; garbled handles stay unlisted.

Chattiest episodes

  • 2020-03-13 — 26 chat reads — Bitcoin $4806 #LIVE CALL-IN -Ok Maybe Panic. Like & Subscribe - THS #008
  • 2020-03-16 — 22 chat reads — Wild Markets in Bitcoin and Stocks as Coronavirus Crisis continues #LIVE CALL-IN
  • 2020-03-17 — 14 chat reads — DOW & Bitcoin up slightly as the crisis continues. Stay Home! #LIVE CALL-IN - TH
  • 2020-03-03 — 12 chat reads — THS #001 - Thomas Hunt Show, CoronaVirus, Trace & MimbleWimble - Picard, Primary
  • 2020-03-04 — 10 chat reads — Biden dramatic upset over Sanders - India to allow Cryptocurrency Trading - The

The roll call

Jeremy SagersZaza ZazaDan TrevMartinBenBB CameronVossChewieHarmonyM-B-T-CSheffieldMalcolmAllerizaDerekTyler JankYuvazByzantineXantium GeneralJenniferGerbotsQuasim RashadShine FuelStar Duster
Heard in the chat
“Maybe they're saying in the chat that I should try out some other things.”2020-03-03
“So, oh, we've got a different app in the chat says he's enjoying the Picard series.”2020-03-03
“It's always hard people kind of comment in the chat and then they don't come back after the show to comment.”2020-03-04
“But according to Jeremy here in the chat, Mike Bloomberg has dropped out of the president residential race that's half a billion dollars for one day and he didn't even have a very good day.”2020-03-04
“I prefer to, I wish I could just get the politics news, but they mix that scary virus stuff in there to meanwhile in the chat.”2020-03-04
“Uh, they said it in the chat and it happened during the show.”2020-03-05