Classification is by what the transcript shows. “News desk + segments” means at least one hand-off (“we’re joined by…”, “returning to…”) to Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, or Vortex. “Solo + live chat” means Thomas alone, reading the live chat on air. “Solo news desk” is the pure read. “Co-anchored” is the two Berlin episodes opened jointly with Paloma.
Two things the corpus rules out. First, interviews: there is no episode built around a guest interview — guests existed as 90-second check-in segments, never as the show. Second, call-ins: late episodes advertised “with your Calls” in the title, but no caller segment survives in any Today in Bitcoin transcript. When Thomas wanted calls he used a different show name — the Bitcoin Talk Show, which returned the week this one went quiet in June 2018.
One caller did almost make it. February 9, 2018: the hangout echoed, the hangout got restarted, and the moment passed. The closest Today in Bitcoin ever came to being a call-in show is this sentence:
“It's too bad. We really had a caller there.”2018-02-09
| Year | solo news desk | news desk + segments | solo + live chat | co-anchored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 n=161 | 87 | 62 | 10 | 2 |
| 2018 n=59 | 42 | — | 17 | — |
| 2019 n=6 | 5 | — | 1 | — |
| 2020 n=1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 2021 n=6 | 6 | — | — | — |
The 2017 column splits the launch era (segments nearly every day) from the MadTour fall (solo podcast). From 2018 on it is a solo show, full stop. 2020 is a single episode.
The masthead drifted with the format: “Today in Bitcoin” (153 episodes), “Today in Bitcoin News” (22, the September–October 2017 pivot when a companion price show was attempted once), “Today in Bitcoin News Podcast” (53, the October–December 2017 MadTour era, audio-first by necessity), and #LIVE (4, the sporadic late-era streams). One title experiment survives in a single episode: “Today in Bitcoin Price” (2017-10-11), plus one “More Today in Bitcoin” double-header day (2017-09-16).
31 episodes in July 2017, 30 in August, 29 in September: the desk published essentially every day for its first quarter, Saturdays and Sundays included. 90 broadcasts in the first 90 days. The five-day week was for people who didn’t think Bitcoin news happened on Sunday.