It launched on July 3, 2017 as a simulcast — the same broadcast went out on Thomas’s original MadBitcoins channel and on the World Crypto Network for exactly one week, 8 episodes through July 10. After that the MadBitcoins copies stop and the show is WCN-only for the rest of its life. And what a pace it set: 90 episodes in the first 90 days, a news desk that did not take weekends, with Tone Vays phoning in a daily check of the markets and Jimmy Song a check of the scaling drama, all through the SegWit summer and the fork wars.
In October 2017 the segments stopped — both regulars faded off the air within weeks, no goodbye on tape — and the title quietly became “Today in Bitcoin News Podcast.” Thomas anchored the back half of 2017 solo from the MadTour: Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Amsterdam, reading the news off a laptop while the price went from $4,300 to $19,000. The show came home in January 2018 as a live solo morning show and tapered with the bear market: 13 episodes in January, 8 in May, one in June. The week it stopped, the Bitcoin Talk Show came back daily — same host, same hour, calls instead of headlines.
After that, Today in Bitcoin is an occasional key Thomas reached for when the news got loud: a four-episode flurry in September 2018, six scattered through 2019, one in August 2020, and then a six-episode coda in January 2021 with Bitcoin at $40,000 — the last one titled, with great honesty, “(take 2).” It was never announced as over. It just stopped saying good morning.
“Good morning, Bitcoin. My name is Thomas Hunt. Today is Monday, July 3, 2017. And here's what's happening, today, in Bitcoin.”2017-07-03
“As they say, we've opened Pandora's box. Originally it was actually a jar. We've opened Pandora's jar.”2018-04-10
“Good morning, Bitcoin. Today is Monday, May 1st. I don't even know what day it is.”2018-05-01
“In 5, 4, 3. Good morning Bitcoin. Today is Wednesday, January 13, 2021.”2021-01-13
One mountain, then foothills. 31 episodes in a July 2017 the show only joined on the 3rd — launch day and July 10 both ran double editions. The taper through 2018 mirrors the bear market; the lonely bars after mid-2018 are one-offs; the January 2021 cluster is the $40,000 coda. This is not a show that wound down — it is a show that erupted, settled, and then got reached for in emergencies.
The first 8 broadcasts, July 3–10, 2017, exist twice in the archive: once on world_crypto_network, once on mad_bitcoins. Same titles, same tape. Thomas launched the show on his own channel and on the network simultaneously, then dropped the simulcast after the first week. Every number on this site counts those broadcasts once.