Recent — 2025–2026

2,680 tweets · 356 originals · Now

The current chapter. Through March 18, 2026, the archive's last captured date, the account is running at roughly the same volume as the late-pivot era (2,427 tweets in 2025, 253 through Q1 2026) — steady, deliberate, narrower-targeted than the megaphone years. The audience that's still here is the audience that's been here.

What he's talking about

• Curio Cards retrospectives and physical artifacts. "Four years ago today, my startup that was a failure suddenly became a huge success. @MyCurioCards Rediscovered March 13, 2021. #NFTHistory" (Mar 2025, 41/18) — a self-anniversary that earns its engagement. Five days later: "Fun fact: they made physical collectible versions of @MyCurioCards" (24/6). The art-history mode is now the default.
• The Oakland A's' last Oakland season and aftermath. "Only 85 and already hot in the sun. The only chant from the tired crowd 'Let's go Oakland!' @LastDiveBar" (May 2025, 63/1). The sports thread persists; the fav/RT ratio is heavily fav-skewed, because this is community more than virality.
• bit_fest_UK / international Bitcoin events. ".@MadBitcoins kicks off Day 2 of @bit_fest_UK in Manchester, UK" (Nov 2025, 29/4). The conference-correspondent beat continues, now with fewer photos per stop and more video clips.
• Lower-engagement experiments. The account is testing shorter formats — observations without hashtags, replies that function as half-tweets.

What's landing

In a smaller-volume era, anniversary tweets and witness-to-self tweets land hardest. The Curio Cards rediscovery anniversary outperformed most current-events tweets in 2025. This is the audience telling the account what they want: longitudinal memory, not breaking news.

Voice characteristics

The voice has settled. There's no audience-chasing, no format-shopping. Hunt tweets as someone who has 13 years of receipts, knows the people he's talking to (and with), and is comfortable being quiet. The remaining "MadBitcoins newscaster" beats are now mostly self-promotional — clip drops, panel announcements — and the personal voice (sports, art, occasional politics) is the dominant register.

Series + recurring concepts

• Curio Cards anniversaries (March 13 in particular)
• A's farewell coverage
• bit_fest / Bitcoin Manchester reporting
• #NFTHistory — Hunt as steward of a record he helped make

Why the era matters

It's the part of the story that's still being written, and the part where the account demonstrates survival. 13 years on Twitter through three platform rebrands, multiple bull cycles, a pandemic, an NFT boom and bust, and a substantial demographic shift away from Twitter as a platform — and the account is still posting, still being engaged with by people who remember the 2014 OccupyHK tweets and the 2017 SegWit campaigns. The fact that it's quieter is not the same as it being gone.

Flagship tweets

• 1900249000000000000 range (2025-03-13) — "Four years ago today... Curio Cards Rediscovered" (41/18)
• 1925490000000000000 range (2025-05-22) — Last A's-in-Oakland-era game tweet (63/1)
• 1992541802172133694 (2025-11-23) — bit_fest_UK Day 2 kickoff

What to watch

The account has settled into something like a "trusted publisher" mode for a small, loyal audience. The interesting question for 2026+ is whether Hunt picks a new obsession (a new project, a new beat) the way he picked Vegas in 2017 and Curio Cards in 2021. The account format proves itself capable of reinvention; the question is whether there's a new wave to ride or whether this is the curator phase indefinitely.