35 shows across three registries — what is held, how much of it, what may be quoted, and where it came from. Companion to the holdings timeline, which answers when; this answers what, how much, and may we use it.
rows are transcript records in brain.db — the searchable
unit. broadcasts deduplicate them: one Bitcoin Group night exists as up to
three uploads, so row totals count that night up to three times.
words are words of distinct broadcasts, keeping the longest transcript per
broadcast, plus shorts counted separately. hours are audio actually
transcribed, from the last timed segment of each Whisper sidecar — not hours
broadcast.
An em dash is not a zero. A show that was never ingested shows
— throughout. Printing 0 would read as "searched and
found nothing", which is a different and wrong claim.
There is no single honest episode count. Rows split across lanes:
audio_episode is the programme as published, live is
frequently the same broadcast recorded as a stream, and short is an
auto-cut clip with a machine-written title — searchable, but never cite one as
an episode. WCN has 1,630 shorts; fold those into "episodes" and the channel
appears to have two-thirds more output than it does.
| Code | Show / lanes held | First Last |
Rows | B‑casts | Words | Hrs | Completeness | Rights | Provenance & flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YMBthird-party | You, Me, and BTC audio_episode 68 | 2015-10-02 2017-01-27 |
68 | 68 | 564,323 | 56 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×66 · whisper-base-initial-prompt ×2 |
| RRown | Read Rothbard, Use Bitcoin live 18 | 2018-08-06 2019-03-19 |
18 | 18 | 224,396 | 24 | searchable | own quote yes · media yes | video-origin whisper-base-initial-prompt ×11 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×7 2 repetition_loop |
| WCNown | World Crypto Network short 1630 · audio_episode 1123 · live 878 · video 4 | 2014-02-01 2026-10-04 |
3,635 | 2,005 | 15,259,710 | 1,565 | searchable | own quote yes · media yes | video-origin whisper-base-initial-prompt ×2096 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×1533 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×6 223 repetition_loop · 74 under 40 words |
| MBown | Mad Bitcoins audio_episode 660 · live 46 · short 16 · video 3 | 2013-04-21 2026-01-31 |
725 | 709 | 1,292,525 | 144 | searchable | own quote yes · media yes | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×636 · whisper-base-initial-prompt ×89 18 repetition_loop · 16 under 40 words |
| TIBown | Today in Bitcoin audio_episode 254 · live 34 | 2017-07-03 2024-09-20 |
288 | 279 | 477,429 | 53 | searchable | own quote yes · media yes | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×287 · whisper-base-initial-prompt ×1 |
| TBGown | The Bitcoin Group audio_episode 574 · live 502 · video 23 · short 16 | 2013-10-18 2026-10-24 |
1,115 | 508 | 6,020,580 | 580 | searchable | own quote yes · media yes | video-origin whisper-base-initial-prompt ×778 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×321 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×16 335 repetition_loop · 4 under 40 words |
| BTSown | The Bitcoin Talk Show live 182 · audio_episode 3 | 2014-03-19 2021-05-26 |
185 | 185 | 3,458,663 | 337 | searchable | own quote yes · media yes | video-origin whisper-base-initial-prompt ×151 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×34 53 repetition_loop |
| BJFthird-party | Brother John F — The Bitcoin Report video 92 | 2011-06-14 2018-10-08 |
92 | 92 | 231,191 | 28 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin whispercpp-base.en ×92 |
| UOGown | Ugly Old Goat live 197 · video 96 · short 30 | 2018-06-06 2026-04-19 |
323 | 286 | 2,463,150 | 265 | searchable | own quote yes · media yes | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×321 · whisper-base-initial-prompt ×1 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×1 71 repetition_loop · 2 silent_audio · 14 under 40 words |
| SFBMthird-party | San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup live 40 · video 31 · audio_episode 12 | 2014-05-01 2020-05-26 |
83 | 72 | 590,644 | 60 | searchable | granted-reported quote yes · media yes | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×69 · whisper-base-initial-prompt ×14 6 repetition_loop |
| MTthird-party | Money & Tech video 422 | 2014-02-27 2015-12-04 |
422 | 422 | 325,115 | 31 | searchable | mixed quote yes · media NO | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×422 2 under 40 words |
| EPIthird-party | Epicenter audio_episode 673 | 2013-12-20 2026-09-09 |
673 | 673 | 7,657,279 | 767 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | audio-origin — complete as audio, NOT a gap whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×673 |
| LTBthird-party | Let's Talk Bitcoin video 180 | 2013-06-08 2015-02-07 |
180 | 180 | 1,945,031 | 178 | searchable | granted-reported quote yes · media yes | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×180 |
| SOBthird-party | Speaking of Bitcoin audio_episode 126 | 2019-05-12 2022-08-20 |
126 | 126 | 801,436 | 74 | searchable | granted-reported quote yes · media yes | audio-origin — complete as audio, NOT a gap whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×126 1 under 40 words |
| TBGAMEthird-party | The Bitcoin Game audio_episode 84 | 2014-10-05 2025-11-14 |
84 | 84 | 828,157 | 80 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | audio-origin — complete as audio, NOT a gap whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×84 |
| LTBXthird-party | LTB Network — talks, siblings, interviews video 775 | 2013-06-09 2020-03-16 |
775 | 773 | 4,778,728 | 453 | searchable | granted-reported quote yes · media yes | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×775 1 under 40 words |
| BUthird-party | Bitcoin Uncensored video 369 | — — |
369 | 369 | 2,922,513 | 254 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×369 |
| KOthird-party | Countdown with Keith Olbermann — | 2020-10 ongoing |
— | — | — | — | committed, nothing on disk | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin — |
| NEWSthird-party | News articles — Tommr reading corpus https 54 | — — |
54 | 52 | 9,847 | 0 | searchable | not-sought quote yes · media NO | — — 36 under 40 words |
| GQKOthird-party | The Closer / The Resistance with Keith Olbermann (GQ) — | 2016-09-13 2017-11-27 |
— | — | — | — | committed, nothing on disk | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin — |
| ABOUTthird-party | About Thomas Hunt — third-party coverage, interviews and profiles about_thomas/01 1 · about_thomas/02 1 · about_thomas/03 1 · about_thomas/04 1 · about_thomas/05 1 · about_thomas/06 1 · about_thomas/07 1 · about_thomas/08 1 · about_thomas/09 1 · about_thomas/10 1 · about_thomas/11 1 · about_thomas/12 1 · about_thomas/13 1 · about_thomas/14 1 · about_thomas/15 1 · about_thomas/16 1 · about_thomas/18 1 · about_thomas/20 1 · about_thomas/21 1 · about_thomas/24 1 · about_thomas/25 1 · about_thomas/29 1 | — — |
22 | 22 | 33,060 | 0 | searchable | not-sought quote yes · media NO | — — |
| LBSthird-party | Le Bitcoin Show (French) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin — |
| TBSthird-party | The Bitcoin Show (Bruce Wagner) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin — |
| BFPthird-party | Bitcoin Forum Podcast / The Bitcoin Podcast (2011) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | video-origin — |
| BUWthird-party | Bitcoin Uncensored — whyp.it audio archive (Woosah) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | audio-origin — complete as audio, NOT a gap — |
| CABthird-party | Crypto Audioblog live 39 | 2018-01-14 2018-10-29 |
39 | 39 | 69,177 | 7 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | — whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×39 |
| CBCthird-party | Chris Before Coffee live 22 · audio_episode 4 | 2014-06-21 2014-10-29 |
26 | 26 | 378,135 | 36 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | — whisper-base-initial-prompt ×18 · whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×8 5 repetition_loop |
| BTCIOTthird-party | BTCIOT — Bitcoin & the Internet of Things audio_episode 36 | 2019-02-02 2020-09-03 |
36 | 36 | 144,875 | 15 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | — whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×36 |
| BCBthird-party | Bitcoin Coffee Break audio_episode 26 | 2019-05-09 2019-06-25 |
26 | 26 | 63,659 | 6 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | — whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×26 |
| JOEthird-party | The Joesmoe Show audio_episode 7 · live 2 | 2019-08-22 2019-10-31 |
9 | 9 | 62,606 | 6 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | — whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×9 |
| CCVthird-party | Crypto Convos audio_episode 13 | 2014-07-31 2015-01-29 |
13 | 13 | 166,727 | 15 | searchable | unknown quote yes · media NO | — whispercpp-distil-large-v3 ×9 · whisper-base-initial-prompt ×4 1 repetition_loop |
| OTRthird-party | On The Record (Tone Vays) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | — — |
| OFCthird-party | Off Chain (Jimmy Song) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | — — |
| TCSthird-party | The Crypto Show (Logos Radio Network, Austin) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | — — |
| BAGthird-party | Bitcoins & Gravy (John Barrett) — | — — |
— | — | — | — | files on drive, not in brain.db | unknown quote yes · media NO | — — |
A podcast-feed show's original form IS audio. There is no video, so none is
missing. Epicenter, Speaking of Bitcoin and The Bitcoin Game came from their
own RSS feeds, where the published artefact is an audio file — holding audio for
those is complete, not partial, and must never be written up as a gap. The
video-origin shows are different: for those, audio-only holdings genuinely would
be partial. The Provenance column carries original_form for exactly
this reason, so it stops being folklore each session has to rediscover.
own is Thomas's own production — nobody to ask.
granted-reported means someone in a position to know said yes and it
was written down as a report rather than promoted to evidence; it is
sufficient to publish on, and it is a deliberate category rather than a
weak one. not-sought is not a refusal — archive freely,
constrain publication. mixed means the show contains third-party
material it could not have granted rights to. unknown is the default
for anything new and blocks quoting until someone looks.
The JSON is an index; the LICENCE-STATUS.md beside the files is
the authority. It says things no enum can — who shot which night, which
evidence reaches and which does not, which questions are open. When they
disagree, the .md wins. Check per-item carve-outs before quoting or
serving anything: ./corpus.py rights --show CODE.
12 of the shows above have no source of their own. They are
nested inside the World Crypto Network and Mad Bitcoins archives and are
identifiable only by episode title. This is the single most expensive trap in the
archive: a session once searched for a today_in_bitcoin source, found
none, and reported the show missing. It was never missing; it was never a source.
The Bitcoin Talk Show went the same way and sat silently counted as WCN for
years.
| Code | Show | Rows | Span | Nested in | Identified by title containing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YMB | You, Me, and BTC | 68 | 2015-10-02 → 2017-01-27 | world_crypto_network | ymb podcast |
| RR | Read Rothbard, Use Bitcoin | 18 | 2018-08-06 → 2019-03-19 | world_crypto_network | read rothbard |
| TIB | Today in Bitcoin | 288 | 2017-07-03 → 2024-09-20 | world_crypto_network, mad_bitcoins | today in bitcoin |
| TBG | The Bitcoin Group | 1,115 | 2013-10-18 → 2026-10-24 | world_crypto_network, mad_bitcoins | bitcoin group |
| BTS | The Bitcoin Talk Show | 185 | 2014-03-19 → 2021-05-26 | world_crypto_network, mad_bitcoins | bitcoin talk show |
| SFBM | San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup | 83 | 2014-05-01 → 2020-05-26 | world_crypto_network, mad_bitcoins | |
| CAB | Crypto Audioblog | 39 | 2018-01-14 → 2018-10-29 | world_crypto_network | crypto audioblog |
| CBC | Chris Before Coffee | 26 | 2014-06-21 → 2014-10-29 | world_crypto_network | chris before coffee |
| BTCIOT | BTCIOT — Bitcoin & the Internet of Things | 36 | 2019-02-02 → 2020-09-03 | world_crypto_network | btciot |
| BCB | Bitcoin Coffee Break | 26 | 2019-05-09 → 2019-06-25 | world_crypto_network | bitcoin coffee break |
| JOE | The Joesmoe Show | 9 | 2019-08-22 → 2019-10-31 | world_crypto_network | joesmoe |
| CCV | Crypto Convos | 13 | 2014-07-31 → 2015-01-29 | world_crypto_network | crypto convos |
Title matching must ignore punctuation. Today in Bitcoin was
undercounted by 46 rows until 15 Oct 2026 because 46 episodes are titled
Today in #Bitcoin and a plain substring test for today in bitcoin
does not match today in #bitcoin. Correcting it moved the show from
242 rows to 288 and its last episode from 2021-01-27 to
2024-09-20 — the show ran three years longer than the documentation
said. Write title_contains rules in plain lowercase words; the
normaliser handles the punctuation.
These are named recurring programmes found inside the World Crypto Network archive on 15 Oct 2026 by extracting repeated title prefixes. 440 rows in total, and every one of them is already counted as WCN in §1. Do not add these to the WCN figures; they are a breakdown of part of it, not an addition to it.
They are not promoted to shows, on Thomas's standing instruction, restated
15 Oct 2026: list them, do not promote them. Promoting one would change every
WCN figure ever quoted, and that is his decision rather than an overnight one.
The Bitcoin Talk Show was promoted, because it is a distinctly named show
with its own analytics site at /bitcoin-talk-show/ — it was
documented in one part of the estate and absent from the register in another.
Promoting another is a one-line registry edit plus
corpus.py holdings; the cost is in the figures, not the work.
| Strand | Rows | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proof of Work | 103 | 2018-11-26 | 2023-12-02 |
| Crypto Audioblog | 39 | 2018-01-14 | 2018-10-29 |
| BTCIOT | 36 | 2019-02-02 | 2020-09-03 |
| Bitcoin Technical Analysis | 35 | 2015-07-01 | 2016-02-16 |
| Chris Before Coffee | 27 | 2014-06-21 | 2014-10-29 |
| Bitcoin Coffee Break | 26 | 2019-05-09 | 2019-06-25 |
| ProTip | 25 | 2015-03-12 | 2016-10-16 |
| The Bitcoin News Show | 24 | 2017-12-03 | 2018-07-01 |
| This Week In Cryptos | 24 | 2014-04-05 | 2015-01-31 |
| Dark News | 16 | 2014-03-26 | 2014-08-26 |
| Crypto Convos | 14 | 2014-07-31 | 2015-01-29 |
| MiniBits | 12 | 2014-06-23 | 2014-07-10 |
| Off Chain | 10 | 2017-08-23 | 2017-10-24 |
| World Crypto Book Club | 10 | 2014-07-24 | 2014-10-03 |
| FutureRant | 9 | 2016-08-29 | 2017-08-11 |
| The Joesmoe Show | 9 | 2019-08-22 | 2019-10-31 |
| Adventures in #NFTs | 8 | 2021-05-25 | 2021-10-05 |
| WCN Town Hall Meeting | 8 | 2014-08-08 | 2014-10-24 |
| On The Record | 5 | 2017-03-29 | 2017-04-23 |
/videos is not the channel. Livestreams live in a separate
/streams tab and appear in no /videos listing, which once
under-reported the SF Bitcoin Meetup as 19 recordings when it holds 46 — 30%
invisible, with no error and no truncation notice. The playlists tab is a
third surface, and it carries something the other two do not: the channel
owner's own grouping, made by hand at the time. A playlist can reveal a named
programme whose episode titles never shared a prefix, which is exactly what the
strand sweep in §3 cannot find.
| Channel | Show | Playlists | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Crypto Network@Worldcryptonetwork | WCN | 128 | |
| MadBitcoins@Madbitcoins | MB | 52 | |
| Ugly Old Goat@UglyOldGoat | UOG | 5 | |
| SF Bitcoin Meetup@sfbitcoinmeetup7536 | SFBM | 0 | no playlists tab — established zero, not a failed fetch |
| Adjy Leak (Ryan Taylor)@AdjyLeak | SFBM | 35 | |
| Money & Tech@Moneyandtech | MT | 5 | |
| BitcoinChannel (Brother John F)@bitcoinchannel3305 | BJF | 2 |
227 playlists enumerated across the archive's channels;
227 with full ordered membership captured so far. Membership
capture is paced and gate-aware — on a bot gate it stops and waits rather than
retrying, because the gate is keyed on our IP and hammering it extends it.
Per-playlist JSON lives in _scripts/corpus/playlists/.
A channel with no playlists tab and a channel whose fetch failed are
different claims, and collapsing them into "0 playlists" is the same error as
printing 0 for a show that was never ingested. The Note column keeps
them apart, and the underlying JSON keeps the extractor's own words as the
evidence.
shows.json and acquisition state in _registry.json, then
re-run the above. Do not write a third registry or a second status script — two
status tools is how Thomas ended up with figures that disagreed with what
sessions had reported.