Vol. XIII · Saturday Edition The American Original · Est. October 2013 June 8, 2026

The Bitcoin Group

A weekly newspaper of record for the longest-running show in cryptocurrency.
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Episode No. 497 · June 6, 2026 · By the Desk

TBG #497
Bitcoin breaks below $60,000 mid-week. Strategy starts selling. The panel takes a long look at AI.

Price Terrible. Saylor Sells.

Bitcoin cracks $60,000 for the first time since October 2024; Strategy files a $2.5M sale to fund a dividend; Trump Media moves to lighten its bag; and Standard Chartered’s bull holds the $100K call.

The Bitcoin Group No. 497 opened with Victoria Jones, Adam and Robert Allen at the desk and a price tape that had crossed below $60,000 for the first time since October 2024. The host, Thomas Hunt, read the week’s file in the same register he has used for thirteen years: the sub-$60 print was unwelcome, expected, and unremarkable, in the order he gave them.

The eight-item running order took in MicroStrategy’s sale of 32 coins to fund a dividend, Trump Media’s $455M loss-driven plan to sell into the tape, a Reuters note on capital rotating from Bitcoin into the AI megacap IPOs, and a Bitcoin ATM lawsuit out of federal court in Florida.

You really have to have a revolutionary spirit quite frankly to be a Bitcoiner. And a lot of people don’t have that.Robert Allen, on the sub-$60K print
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No. 496 · May 23, 2026

TBG #496

Saylor declares spring. The market shrugs.

A familiar pattern from MicroStrategy’s chairman; Cuban quietly trims his bag; and a Republican from Alaska tries, again, to legislate a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Bitcoin spent the week on the wrong side of a familiar line. The panel opened a half hour after the market closed lower for the second straight session.

If Michael Saylor says it, it’s got to be true. I guess he’s a thermodynamic scientist and a mathematician, so he clearly can tell the future.Jess C., panelist
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No. 494 · May 15, 2026

TBG #494

The strip-club party.

Consensus 2026 holds its flagship afterparty at a Miami club; four thousand badge-holders are left in the street; the Clarity Act passes; nobody moves.

The official afterparty for the year’s flagship industry conference had been booked at a Miami strip club called E11even.

It wasn’t just inappropriate — it was incredibly low-brow for an industry trying to grow up.Victoria Jones
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The Bitcoin Group is the longest-running cryptocurrency show on the internet. The first episode aired on October 18, 2013, broadcast on a satellite feed from a basement studio in California. At time of writing the show has 497 numbered episodes, has been hosted continuously by Thomas Hunt across thirteen years and four bear markets, and has cycled through 290+ panelists, most of them named, all of them on the record.

This page — /tbg/ — is an editorial layer above the archive. It is not a mirror; the mirror lives at /tbg-mirrors/. It is not the guest timeline; that lives at /tbg-timeline/. It is the newspaper: episode notes written in the register of a paper of record, with a guest desk, a predictions ledger, and an archive that goes back to the first show.

The site is updated weekly when a new episode lands in our brain.db ingestion pipeline. Older episodes will be backfilled from the existing Whisper transcripts and the LLM Wiki summaries that cover them. The build plan is at /tbg/_build/AUTOMATION_PLAN.md.

The Desk has no advertisers, no paywall, no popups, and no political position other than that an industry that meets at a strip club is not, on the evidence, an industry that is growing up.