TBG, WCN, TIB —
three shows, one beat

The shows look like one thing from the outside — "the World Crypto Network family" — but they're three distinct beats. Knowing which show covered a story tells you something about the story.

The Bitcoin Group · TBG

482 episodes. A weekly panel show, four guests around a virtual table, four headlines on the docket, predictions at the end. The format hasn't really changed since 2014: a host (Thomas Hunt) reads a story, the panel weighs in, somebody says something cuttable, the next story. The math of the format is that you get four expert opinions per story per week, on tape, dated.

TBG is the show that gets quoted most in the reports because of that math. Sanctions evasion, Western Union, Michael Saylor, Andreas Antonopoulos on conference etiquette — every one of those reports leans heavily on TBG transcripts. The predictions tracker grades every on-air call across the entire run.

What TBG is for

• Weekly synthesis of the four most-debatable stories of the week.
• On-tape positions from a panel of named people.
• Long-run prediction record that can be graded against reality.

World Crypto Network · WCN

1,568 episodes across live streams and video. WCN is the daily/near-daily news operation: a single host, often Thomas, going through the day's headlines without the panel format. It's the show that runs every day, and it's the show with the biggest archive by a wide margin.

WCN ran from 2013 forward; in some years it shipped more than 300 episodes. The peak was 2019 (353 episodes including 347 WCN), but the 2014–2018 stretch is where most of the deep coverage lives.

What WCN is for

• Daily breaking news, fast turnarounds.
• Long-form interviews with people who happened to be in town.
• The Umbrella Revolution coverage in 2014, the Hong Kong coverage in 2019, the entire BCH / BSV drama as it happened.

Today in Bitcoin · TIB

234 episodes. The shortest of the three. TIB is the daily price-and-news rundown — three to seven minutes, evergreen format, ticker on screen, on a regular cadence. It's the easiest of the three to pull a clean clip from because the format is tight by design.

What TIB is for

• Daily price coverage at a consistent format.
• News bullets, market reaction, charts on screen.
• The show you'd link to a non-crypto friend who asked "what happened today?"

How they appear together

A single news event often shows up in all three. The 2026 Western Union stablecoin announcement, for example: the report pulls 34 episodes that touched WU as a topic across the three shows over a decade. The on-air call that "Bitcoin will route around Western Union" was made on TBG; the day-to-day coverage of remittance corridors was WCN; the price-context summary the day the news broke was TIB.

This is why all three feed the same brain.db: cross-show search across the three archives is how you find the verbatim moment that matters.

The combined number

Across the three: 482 + 1,568 + 234 = 2,284 episodes of named, dated, on-air crypto coverage. Plus 594 Mad Bitcoins episodes from the earlier run, and the result is one of the largest single-network archives of a working industry on YouTube. All of it now lives in brain.db, which is why this article exists.