The biggest single playlist on the channel: 319 episodes, #122 through #441.
still being added to
Thomas Hunt has been making MadBitcoins since April 2013. The channel he and his audience know as MB 594 — a daily news show that became a live-stream that became a 10-year retrospective — has been re-cut, by Thomas himself, into 52 separate YouTube playlists. This is the map of those 52.
Most YouTube channels have five or ten playlists. Large channels have fifty. Mad Bitcoins has exactly fifty-two — which is the same number as cards in a deck, weeks in a year, episodes in an old-school broadcast season. That coincidence is almost certainly accidental. Almost.
The largest playlist — MadBitcoins! Season 2 (122-441) — holds 319 entries. The smallest meaningful curation — The MadTrilogy — holds three, and is one of the most influential things on the channel. Nine playlists contain only one or two videos, several of them with typos in their titles ("First Apperance of Chris Ellis") — these read like folders Thomas built once and forgot. The oldest "last-modified" date on any playlist is 2015-05-31; the newest is 2026-02-01. The archive is half mausoleum, half living index.
Every Mad Bitcoins playlist below, sorted into the ten editorial groups that emerged once you read all 52 side-by-side. Click any title to open it on YouTube. The dot at the foot of each card flags whether the playlist is still being added to, finished/dormant, or a forgotten orphan.
Each of the 52 playlists, profiled at depth and grouped by editorial function. Numbered footnote links at the bottom of the page open each playlist on YouTube.
The biggest single playlist on the channel: 319 episodes, #122 through #441. Roughly mid-2013 through 2015. This is peak MB-as-daily-news — Mt. Gox imploding in real time, the NY BitLicense hearings, Dread Pirate Roberts going to trial, Dogecoin's NASCAR moment, Thomas making genuinely strange video collages out of the day's news. The thing about Season 2 is how much it documents the industrialization of Bitcoin: BitPay, Coinbase, Bitstamp, Xapo, Circle, Kraken, Bitfinex — all of these companies grow up on camera here. Last modified 2026-02-01, which suggests Thomas is still pruning or appending; the front of the playlist still breathes.
Season 3: episodes #442–#665, 223 entries. Late 2014 into the post-daily era. This is where the show transforms — from "here is today's news" to "here is a Live stream where I talk about today's news for 90 minutes with a guest." You can see the show searching for its next shape: more interviews, longer segments, the first emergence of the "MadBitcoins Live" format that would dominate 2014-2017. The playlist title still uses an exclamation point — MadBitcoins! — which Thomas has mostly dropped on later content; the brand was still literally yelling in those years. Mod 2026-02-01, so this one is also being actively curated.
The cold-open of the entire archive. Episodes #001 through #121 — the first four months of MadBitcoins!, daily-ish news bulletins shot into a laptop camera in 2013 from Sacramento. The show that ran from "Butterfly Labs actually ships something" (#001) through the Roseanne Barr Bitcoin endorsement (#029), Bitcoin Flash Crashes, the EFF's $95,000 donation, DPR's arrest, and the first time Mt. Gox refused to pay anyone (#012). The sets are tiny. The jokes are first-draft. The vibe is "this guy has been awake for 36 hours and is somehow funnier for it." Re-watching it now, the impressive thing isn't the takes — it's the cadence. 121 episodes in 121-odd days is a sustained daily-show output before anyone in crypto knew what a daily show was. Mod 2017-05-27 — Thomas has not touched this playlist in nine years, which is exactly correct: Season 1 is finished business.
240 videos from 2014 — the largest year-bucket on the channel. 2014 was the year Bitcoin's headline price collapsed from $1,200 to $200 while everything under the headline got built. Reading the titles in this playlist is like reading a wire feed: "Target Ignored Security Warnings — The Underworld Loves Cash — Hong Kong Bitcoin ATM", "Feds Ready to Sell $25M Bitcoin — The Fascinating 42 Coin — Bitcoin Tucson!", "JP Morgan: Bitcoin is vastly inferior — Bitcoin: Under Siege — Have Faith". The triple-dash title convention is the show's signature — three news beats per episode, every weekday. 240 of them in twelve months.
The annual videos bucket for 2013, 217 entries. Overlaps heavily with Season 1 and the front of Season 2 — same episodes, different angle. Where the Seasons are about the run (numbered by episode), the Year-Videos playlists are about the calendar (filtered by upload year). This is the bookend to the year Mt. Gox traded between $13 and $1,200, the Senate held its first Bitcoin hearings, and #008 ("Bitcoin Flash Crash — Kutcher Buys Bitcoin — Bitcoin in Space") aired. Watch all 217 in order and you have a near-complete crypto calendar for the year Bitcoin first hit mainstream financial press.
2015's annual bucket — 87 episodes. The drop from 240 (2014) to 87 (2015) is the single most visible inflection point in the playlist gallery. This is the year MB stopped being a daily show and started being something looser — longer interviews, on-the-road segments, CoinCongress 2015 in San Francisco, the first big Miami trip, the Net Neutrality victory at Internet Archive. The pace slows but the production value visibly improves.
2017 — 24 videos. A rebound, driven by two things: the Scaling Bitcoin interview series (eight episodes, March 2017) and The Mad Tour Europe (which leaks into this playlist as well as its own). Also the year of the MadTrilogy — three scaling-war parodies dropped here as numbered entries (#1 "primal forces," #2 "if you can't trust a fixed bitcoin," #3 "the miracle"). The MadTrilogy gets its own playlist (covered separately) but lives here too. Last modified 2023.
2023 — 11 videos. A genuine revival year by playlist standards. Nine of the eleven are Bitcoin Miami 2022 interviews uploaded with delay (Sean from Midwest Tungsten, Allen Farrington, Austin Craig from Life on Bitcoin, Kenneth B. Moon the Bitcoin artist) plus a markets recap and a Trezor/Nostr explainer. The show is operating as an interview engine here, not a daily news bulletin.
2019 — six videos. Includes "Mad Bitcoins on a Boat — Working Man's Bitcoin Conference" (the Mediterranean cruise conference), "What if YouTube deleted all of the Bitcoin videos?" (still a fair question), "The State of Bitcoin: Welcome to Level Two", and a Satoshi identity reveal teaser. Sparse but not vacant — these are the year's keepers.
2016 — six videos. The cliff. After three years of daily output, 2016 is when the videos bucket nearly empties. Some of this is reclassification (more content moved to the Live playlists). Some of it is that Thomas was on a long arc away from the daily-news format. The six surviving entries are all signature: "We shall fight for Bitcoin" (a Churchill parody), Zcash launch, the DAO hack payday. Six videos that each had to earn their slot.
2022 — three videos. An Oliver Morris (Rare Pepe artist) interview, a Buttercup Roberts / Ross Ulbricht conversation, and "Curio Cards listed in Christie's Auction House." That last one matters disproportionately: Curio Cards (which Thomas helped birth in 2017) hitting Christie's is arguably the single most important "MB universe" story of 2022, and yet there is no Curio Cards playlist to anchor it. (See the "What's missing" essay.)
2020 — three videos. The pandemic year. "Bitcoin Ends 7 Weeks of Fear — 2020 Crash or Hyperinflation? — Kim Jong Vegetable" sits beside a Monty Python tribute to Terry Jones and an exposé on $2T in bank laundering. The trio reads like a one-page year-in-review.
2021 — one video. "Will Bitcoin reach $30,000? Welcome to 2021 — $29,279 / $1 = 3,420 SAT". The price-in-sats subtitle is a 2021 motif. One video isn't a curated archive; it's a placeholder.
2018 — one video. A single entry: "Dow Down, Bitcoin Up, but totally correlated, No-coiners lack imagination, $320,000 Bitcoin." It's possible the actual 2018 output is fuller in the Live (2017/2019) buckets or simply un-curated — this looks like a playlist Thomas never came back to fill in. Compare with the Senate-Hearings or Beltway playlists, which have proper curation: 2018 is half-built.
75 livestreams from 2014 — the all-time peak of MB live output. Daily-ish broadcasts on Mt. Gox's collapse, the New York BitLicense hearings (multi-part live coverage), Auroracoin, Dread Pirate Roberts' mother, French exchange shutdowns. This playlist is arguably the single most valuable historical artifact on the channel: real-time, multi-hour coverage of crypto's worst year, all of it on tape.
35 livestreams from 2017 — the second largest live year. Driven by Scaling Bitcoin coverage, the Anthem Vault (gold-backed crypto) interview, and the Miami 2017 conference arc. After this, the Live cadence drops permanently.
10 livestreams from 2013. Includes the Christmas 2013 Telethon (a real fundraising live broadcast with bitcoin donations), the Senate Banking Committee hearing coverage, and a series titled "MadBitcoins Minute (Live)." 2013 is the year Thomas invented the format of a live crypto news desk; this playlist is the archaeology of that invention.
2015 Live — six episodes. Sharp drop from 75. Three of them are "Who owns CoinTelegraph?" interviews (with Tone Vays, Ian DeMartino, and Evander Smart) — a small investigative cluster about that publication's ownership in 2015. A real, narrow journalistic beat tucked inside what looks like a year-bucket.
2023 Live — one episode. But what an episode: MadBitcoins 10th Anniversary — a look back at 10 years of Mad Bitcoining. 4,836 seconds — 80 minutes — of Thomas in retrospective mode. The single most useful "where to start" video for a newcomer to the archive lives here.
2021 Live — one episode. "German Police Shutdown Dark Market — Whales Accumulating… — $34,917 / $1 = 2,864 SAT." A 2021 live show that exists in name only as a playlist.
2016 Live — one episode. Just "MadBitcoins Live Stream" — generic title, single entry. Effectively a placeholder.
"Mad Bitcoins — Top 60." Thomas's own greatest-hits list. The Tatiana Moroz "Bitcoin Song," the Dogecar moment on Fox NASCAR, MadBitcoins on Shark Tank (Season 5 Ep 20), the channel's introductory video, the Roger Ver scaling interview. If you want to pitch someone what MadBitcoins is in under three hours, this is the rundown. Mod 2018-01-29 — Thomas locked this set seven years ago and hasn't reopened it.
45 interviews, undated bundle. The closest thing MB has to a "guests" archive: Davi Barker (Hoodies for Homeless), Dogecar/Nascar people, B.J. Guillot (Republican candidate, Washington), M.K. Lords (Bitcoin Not Bombs / fire dancer / conference organizer), Paige and Isabelle from the SF Bitcoin Meetup. The set list reads like a who's-who of 2014-era Bitcoin activism. Not chronologically sorted. Mod 2026-02-01, so still being added to.
Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road — 30 episodes. The Ross Ulbricht arc as covered by MB across 2013-2014. From "Bitcoin Space Travel — Bitcoin for Boobs — No Bail for DPR" through "Bitcoin Breaks $300!!! — Dread Pirate Not Guilty? — Silk Road 2.0 Launches." Each entry is a full episode, so DPR is one of several stories per episode — but the playlist flag-tags every appearance. A real journalistic beat playlist.
MadBitcoin Tutorials — 21 episodes. The "how-to" wing of MB: the Newbie's Guide to buying and securing Bitcoin (with 2FA), MB Guide to Other Crypto Currencies, the Bitcoin Tipping Spectacular (Reddit sitewide + BCTip), live Coinbase account walkthrough. The unloved-but-useful corner of the channel. Mostly 2013-2014. Not added to since the 2FA UX of 2014, which is its own commentary.
MadBitcoins Special Reports — 14 episodes. Description: "single issue, sometimes longer episodes." The DHS Dwolla shutdown report (#018), the Liberty Exchange shutdown report (#030), the Winklevoss edition (#021), "Fear Uncertainty and Doubt!" The investigative-format playlist. Every entry is one issue treated longer than the daily cadence allowed.
Today in Bitcoin — eight episodes, all July 2017. A short-lived daily-recap spinoff inside MB. "Today in Bitcoin (2017-07-03) - Hackers, Ransomware, Swiss Real Estate and South Korea" through July 6. It looks like Thomas was prototyping a separate sub-show with its own brand and abandoned the format after a week. A fossil of an unbuilt show. Mod 2026-02-01, oddly — so he's still touching it, maybe considering reviving the format.
microbits — very short episodes (8). One of the most charming sub-formats on the channel. Sub-two-minute single-topic news bites: "microbit — Mt. Gox registers with FinCEN," "microbit — Dethroning The Dollar: The Yuan, The Bitcoin," "microbit — BTCBible Files FOIA Request Regarding DEA Seizure of Bitcoins." An attempt at a Twitter-length-video format before that was a known thing. Eight entries — abandoned format, but a good one.
MadBitcoins Specials — seven episodes. A grab bag: the 2014 BitGive Charity Bowling tournament, Jason King's Bitcoin Run Across America, the Bitcoin Beauties art show at Plug and Play Sunnyvale, the 2014 Bitcoin Costume Contest at San Jose ComicFest, and a 2014 SF Bitcoin meetup. Field-trip reporting — MB on location.
The First Five — five episodes. Curated re-cut of episodes #001-#005. The playlist description is one of the rare moments Thomas writes the editorial frame himself: "Watch the First Five Episodes of MadBitcoins! Experimentation and a goal of daily improvement. From humble beginnings, our hero, armed only with a microphone and a laptop camera…" A "start here" pack — Thomas's most explicit "if you've never watched the show" list.
A brief history of money in the United States — 3 episodes. A short explainer mini-series Thomas made for his own audience. Part 1: how monetary policy led to the Revolution. Part 2: Revolutionary money and the First Bank. Part 3: "When Andrew Jackson kills something, it stays killed." Lecture-format MB — the show in teaching mode. Mod 2015-05-31 — the oldest "last touched" date in the whole gallery. Thomas finished this series in 2015 and never returned to it.
The Mad Tour: Europe 2017 — 32 episodes. Sequentially numbered ("Episode 1 - Sacramento to Iceland," "Episode 2 - Iceland to Paris," "Episode 3 - Breaking Bitcoin," "Episode 4 - Paris," "Episode 5 - Water Lilies"). A travelogue series shot around the Breaking Bitcoin conference in Paris, structured like a season of a documentary show. This is one of the strongest-curated playlists on the channel: discrete arc, sequential episodes, real beginning and end. A complete-in-itself thing.
CoinCongress 2015 SF — 23 episodes. Brock Pierce + Naomi Brockwell, Nick Sullivan from ChangeTip, Jeremy Gardener from Augur, Tim Curry from Planet Capital, Zak Slayback from Praxis. A full conference floor walked end to end. The Augur and Praxis entries especially have aged into historical artifacts — both projects pivoted dramatically afterwards.
Bitcoin in the Beltway (2014) — 20 episodes. The June 2014 DC conference. Chris Ellis's "first time at Walmart," Y.T. Cracker performing "Bitcoin Baron" live, Jeffrey Tucker clips, Zhou Tonged performing "End of Silk Road." A conference covered the way MB covered conferences in 2014: not panel by panel, but artist by artist and moment by moment. One of the most evocative event playlists in the archive.
Net Neutrality Victory @ Internet Archive — 14 episodes. The February 2015 party at the Internet Archive in San Francisco when the FCC's Title II net neutrality rules passed. Includes Brewster Kahle's "we need to bake our values into the code" speech and multiple Julia Graber (Free Press) clips. Conference-style coverage of a non-crypto event through the MB lens.
MadBitcoins in Miami (2015) — 14 episodes. The 2015 North American Bitcoin Conference: Marko from Alt Options, Twanda from Zimbabwe, Leonardo, Paul from Airbitz, Ledger Wallet. Sometimes the value of a playlist isn't the famous people in it — it's the names you'd never see again. The Twanda-from-Zimbabwe interview is one of those: a brief moment of global Bitcoin documented because MB happened to be in the room.
Scaling Bitcoin with MadBitcoins — 12 episodes, 15 hours. The playlist description is unusually explicit: "Get the complete scoop on Scaling #Bitcoin with Mad Bitcoins · 12 Videos - 15 hours of content!" Interviews with Roger Ver, Peter Todd, Jameson Lopp + Rhett Creighton, Vinny Lingham, Jimmy Song — sequential, March 20-something dates in 2017. A purpose-built mini-series, one of the few playlists where you can listen end-to-end and hear "every side" of a fork-war argument from the participants themselves.
MadBitcoins Senate Hearings Live (2013) — six episodes. The November 2013 US Senate Banking Committee hearings on Bitcoin (the "virtual currencies" hearings). Six entries including the Peace News Now co-broadcast and a "1000th Subscriber" celebration video that happened to coincide. One [Private video] in the list — Thomas pulled an episode, intentionally, without removing it from the playlist.
BitGive Charity Bowling (2014) — five episodes. The Bitcoin charity bowling tournament where Vaurum, Bitpay, Xapo and Coinbase formed teams. Finals: Xapo vs Bitpay. A five-clip event playlist — exactly the format that scales: one event, exhaustive coverage, discrete bounded set.
MadBitcoins! and Peace News Now cover the US Senate Hearings — five episodes. The Peace News Now collaboration cut of the same Senate hearings story. Two [Private video] entries in the list. Two playlists exist for one event (this one and the Senate Hearings Live playlist above). It's a redundancy that suggests Thomas was using playlists like folders rather than narratives in 2013 — covered in "Hidden architecture."
NY Bitcoin Hearings (2014) — four episodes. Day 1, Day 2 part 1, Day 2 part 2, plus a Celebrity Jeopardy SNL clip (which is either a joke about hearings-as-theater or a data-entry slip). The BitLicense origin story, on camera, live. There is also a separate "MadBitcoins NY Hearings (2014)" playlist (3 episodes) — the duplication is itself interesting, covered in "Hidden architecture."
MadBitcoins NY Hearings (2014). Three episodes: Day 1, Day 2 part 1, Day 2 part 2. The other NY Hearings playlist plus one entry. It is unclear which is the canonical version — both have the same core content. A pruning candidate.
MadBitcoins and Dogecoins — 58 episodes. The umbrella for the Dogecar weekend and everything else MB ever did with Dogecoin: Dogecon SF 2014, Dogecoin price segments, Dogecoin charity bowling. One of the larger thematic playlists and a strong reminder that Dogecoin was, in MB's worldview, never a joke — it was a community to cover.
MadBitcoins and Dogecar — four episodes. A self-contained subplot: the Dogecoin community sponsored a NASCAR car at Talladega in 2014. Thomas drove out and covered it. The four entries are: the live interview with Dogecar people, the moment Fox NASCAR's broadcast mentioned the car on-air, MB Live from Talladega Speedway, and "On the way to Talladega for the Dogecar race!" A single weekend documented as a tiny series.
Hoodie the Homeless (2013) — two episodes. About the Bitcoin-funded hoodie-distribution program for homeless people that Davi Barker and Bitcoin Not Bombs ran. Two videos: the success report and the donation drive. A snapshot of the "Bitcoin will help the poor" moment of 2013 activism. The cause persisted; the playlist was never extended.
Tatiana Moroz — 12 episodes. Liberty-movement singer-songwriter Tatiana Moroz's live set in SF on July 20, 2014: "Make a YouTube Video," "House of the Rising Sun," "Don't think twice," "Call You Out," "Same Side." Twelve performances from one night. The description even links to her site. The only artist-monograph playlist on the whole channel — which makes you wonder why nobody else got one.
Bitcoin Movie Speeches and Parodies — 31 episodes. The other parody bucket (the MadTrilogy gets its own). Description by Thomas: "some of my favorite speeches from history and movies, twisted into Bitcoin speeches. JFK, FDR, Network, Patton, Music Man and more to come!" Covered in depth in the sibling Parodies report.
The MadTrilogy — Bitcoin Scaling Parodies. Three films: "You have meddled with the primal forces of Bitcoin" (Network), "If you can't trust a fixed bitcoin, what can you trust?", "The Bitcoin Miracle is for all of us." 2017's fork war journalism delivered as cinema. Tiny playlist, oversize cultural footprint — covered in depth in the sibling Mad Bitcoins · Parodies report.
Christmas Specials — two episodes. The 2013 Telethon ("Donate Now! Watch Live!") and the 2014 "Poems, Bad Singing and more Poems" special. Two entries, but they're sincere holiday traditions for the era of the show when daily content meant occasional holiday breaks earned. Should there be more? Probably — but Thomas decided after 2014 that the bit had run its course.
First MadBitcoins Live (2013) — 1 entry. "MadBitcoins Live — Interview with Davi Barker, Hoodies for Homeless." A one-video playlist that exists to mark a milestone: the first time MB went live with another human in shot. Pure archival flag-planting.
First Apperance [sic] of Chris Ellis — 1 video. The typo is in Thomas's playlist title and has been there for years. The single video: "MadBitcoins! Alt-Coin Spectacular! Featuring Feathercoin, Frankocoin and Jerry from EndWo[rld]". A pure archival marker for the first time Chris Ellis — later a recurring MB collaborator on ProTip — shows up on the channel. Thomas almost certainly forgot this playlist exists.
Bitcoin Game Show — 1 video. "Who Wants to Be a Bitcoinaire! — World's First Bitcoin Game Show (LIVE!)" A one-off live game-show experiment that never got a second episode. The playlist title implies plans for a series that never materialized.
There are three ways a YouTuber organizes a long career, and Thomas Hunt uses all three at once. He sorts by show name (Seasons 1, 2, 3 — the explicit MadBitcoins! daily-news run, numbered #001 through #665). He sorts by calendar year (Videos 2013, Videos 2014… all the way to Videos 2023, then a parallel Live 2013, Live 2014…). And he sorts by theme (Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road, MadBitcoin Tutorials, Bitcoin Movie Speeches and Parodies, MadBitcoins Special Reports).
If you sketch this on a chart it looks like a 52-by-3 matrix — show / year / theme — with the same videos showing up under different axes. That's why the playlist gallery counts 1,845 entries across only 779 unique videos: the average MB video appears in 2.4 playlists. The Roger Ver scaling interview lives in Live (2017), in Scaling Bitcoin with MadBitcoins, in MadBitcoins Interviews, and in the Top 60. Four playlists, one video, four different framings of what it means.
This is significant. Most YouTubers who organize their archive at all do it on one axis. The big public-affairs channels (PBS Frontline, Vice News) sort by series. Vlog channels sort by year. Tutorial channels sort by topic. MadBitcoins does all three simultaneously, which is the move of someone who thinks the same video is genuinely about multiple things — that the Ross Ulbricht arc and the year 2014 and the daily-news cadence of Season 2 are all separately valid ways to find the same hour of footage.
The other thing the gallery reveals is when Thomas was paying attention. Look at the modified-date column on the per-playlist profiles. A cluster of fifteen playlists last touched on 2021-09-25, the day of a single sit-down editorial pass. A cluster of seven last touched on 2026-02-01, a second sit-down nearly five years later. One playlist (A brief history of money) last touched on 2015-05-31 and never re-opened. The mod-dates aren't when the videos were uploaded; they're when Thomas thought about how to present them. They are the visible fingerprints of a curator returning to the shelf every few years.
What gets re-touched? Two things. First, the spine: Seasons 2 and 3, plus the active interview bucket and Today-in-Bitcoin format experiments. These are still live ideas. Second, the flagship: the parody collections and the active genre identity of the show. The frozen-archive material — the Senate hearings playlist, Hoodie the Homeless, the Beltway 2014 coverage — is where Thomas has decided the curation is finished. Those playlists are exhibits in a museum he no longer rearranges.
The front page of @MadBitcoins/playlists shows you the seasons and the big year buckets first. If you stop there, you've seen maybe a third of the channel. The other two-thirds is hidden in plain sight — playlists that don't surface on the front page but each carry their own small thesis.
Consider "First Apperance [sic] of Chris Ellis": a one-video playlist with a typo in the title, pointing at the single 2013 episode where Chris Ellis (later a major collaborator on ProTip and the Mad Tour) first walks into the show. There is no editorial reason for this to exist as a playlist instead of a timestamp; it exists because Thomas wanted to plant a flag. "First MadBitcoins Live (2013)" does the same thing for the first multi-person live broadcast. "Bitcoin Game Show" exists with one video — "Who Wants to Be a Bitcoinaire!" — and a title that implies a series that never happened. These are aspirational playlists: folders Thomas opened intending to fill them, and then didn't.
Then there are the collaboration playlists. "MadBitcoins! and Peace News Now cover the US Senate Hearings (Live)" overlaps almost completely with "MadBitcoins Senate Hearings Live (2013)" — same hearings, same coverage, two playlists. The redundancy preserves both the MB-solo edit and the joint-broadcast edit as legitimate framings. Likewise "NY Bitcoin Hearings (2014)" and "MadBitcoins NY Hearings (2014)" are nearly identical. Thomas didn't deduplicate. He kept both because both were valid public artifacts when they were made.
The microbits playlist is its own quiet thesis. Eight sub-two-minute videos — "microbit — Litecoin Pizza Index Approaches $10,000" — from a format Thomas tried, abandoned, and never deleted. In 2013 a sub-two-minute crypto-news video was a strange shape. Six years later it would be a TikTok. Either MB invented the format too early, or it's a format MB knew was wrong for the channel and kept around as a research log.
The single richest hidden playlist is probably "A brief history of money in the United States": three 2015 explainer episodes about how monetary policy led to the American Revolution, the First Bank, and Andrew Jackson killing the Second. It is the show in pure-lecture mode and it is not on the front page. The mod date is 2015-05-31. Whether Thomas finished the series or never came back is up to interpretation; the playlist sits there ten years later as an unannounced college-course pilot.
Some playlists should exist and don't. The most striking absence is a Curio Cards playlist. Curio Cards launched in May 2017 as one of the earliest NFT projects on Ethereum, with Thomas as one of the original artist-collaborators. The project hit Christie's Auction House in 2021 — covered, conspicuously, by a single MB video sitting in Videos (2022). There is no playlist that gathers the half-dozen MB videos about Curio Cards into a coherent arc. Given how foundational the project is to MB's later identity, that's a real gap.
The conferences are uneven. Miami 2015 gets its own 14-video playlist. Bitcoin in the Beltway 2014 gets 20 videos. CoinCongress 2015 SF gets 23. The Mad Tour Europe 2017 gets 32. These are all done well. But Bitcoin Miami 2022 generated about ten 2023-uploaded interview videos — and they live in Videos (2023) with no Miami-2022 playlist anchoring them as a set. Likewise there is no Bitcoin 2022 (Texas), no Bitcoin 2023, no Working Man's Bitcoin Cruise playlist for the 2019 boat conference even though it's clearly a coherent event-set. The Mad Tour got a great playlist; later trips didn't.
There is no WCN / World Crypto Network playlist, which is curious because WCN is one of Thomas's other main vehicles. (1n2.org maintains a separate WCN tracker for this reason.) There is no Bitcoin halving playlist — the 2016, 2020, and 2024 halvings are presumably covered episode-by-episode under the year buckets, but a four-or-five-video halving spine playlist would be useful and isn't there.
Inside the artist coverage: Tatiana Moroz got a 12-video monograph. Nobody else did, even though MB has clearly recurring artists — Y.T. Cracker (Bitcoin Baron), Zhou Tonged, Naomi Brockwell. A "MB Bitcoin Songs" or "MB Recurring Artists" playlist is missing.
Finally, there is no Best Of per-year companion to the year-archives. The Top 60 (mod 2018-01-29) was a one-shot best-of for the first five years and has never been refreshed. A "Top 10 of 2019", "Top 10 of 2020", even a fresh "Top 60 (2025 edition)" would be the natural curatorial next move on an archive of this size. The hardest playlist to build is the one that says here's where to start, and after 2018 Thomas has not built one.
Every playlist linked back to YouTube, ordered as they appear in the per-playlist profiles above. Numbers match the superscript [n] beside each profile heading.
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