The Bad Crypto Podcast w/Joel Comm & Travis Wright

Bitcoin Bull Trap? Episode #815

350 views · 2mo ago · 31:28

The SEC finally wrote the rules down. Citi is about to hold your Bitcoin. Thirty-nine state banking associations are building their own blockchain. And a $3 billion short squeeze shoved Bitcoin through $71K — right before Joel disappears on his honeymoon until November.

Topics: Breckenridge, a wedding, and the week crypto rewrote itself · Travis in the house (with a testicle count) · Regulation by lawsuit is over: the SEC's 402 pages · The two exemptions and the investment-contract exit ramp · GENIUS is law, CLARITY is stuck in the Senate · Open USD: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and 140 partners

The Bots Are Botting: Regulation Crypto, Harmony's Hack & Goldman's $2.25B Buy

116 views · 2mo ago · 35:05

The SEC stopped waiting for Congress. Harmony minted four billion tokens out of thin air. And on Robinhood's brand new chain, AI agents moved $200 million while the humans logged off. On Friday, August 14, the SEC holds an open meeting with exactly one item on the agenda: whether to propose Regulation Crypto, the first formal crypto rulemaking of Chairman Paul Atkins' tenure. It landed days after the Senate skipped town without moving the CLARITY Act.

Topics: Ten years in, three bear markets, still here · You asked for institutions. You got institutions. · Bitcoin goes sideways — and Joel's four-year cycle call · Regulation Crypto: the SEC's August 14 vote · The Senate left for vacation · The innovation exemption and 24/7 tokenized equities

$88 Million Gone From Wallets That Were Never Online

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A five-year-old firmware bug quietly turned "cold storage" into a guessing game. Roughly $88 million in Bitcoin walked out the door — and nobody had to touch a single device.

Topics: Year ten begins · Crypto curious, crypto serious · Travis adopts a kitten in Dubai · Market check · A bear market unlike any other · BitGo dares Claude to take 100 BTC

Hidden Value in Your Dead NFTs

114 views · 3mo ago · 26:34

Nine years ago today, two dudes had an idea. That idea became The Bad Crypto Podcast — and 812 episodes later, we're still here. To celebrate our ninth anniversary, Joel Comm and Travis Wright are doing something useful with all those dead NFTs in your wallet: turning them into a tax write-off.

Spontaneous Combustion - Episode 811 - 7/1/2026

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Guest: Spontaneous Combustion

Where have we been? The real question is — where have YOU been? Joel and Travis hit record with zero show notes for a fully spontaneous Episode 811, and the news would NOT wait.

Topics: "Where have YOU been?" · Welcome to a fully unplanned Episode 811 · Bear market #3 and the nine-year ride · Record June Bitcoin ETF outflows ($4B) · Halving-cycle math: bottom Nov, top fall 2029 · Shrinking block rewards & the cost-of-mining thesis

We Made an AI Lego Music Video in 13 MINUTES (Claude Fable + Suno + Revid.ai) — Bad Crypto Extra

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Guest: Bad Crypto Extra

We JUST finished recording episode 810 — and then this happened. Travis mentioned off-air he wanted to make a song about Claude's new Fable model. So he pulled research with Perplexity, wrote the lyrics with Claude (inspired by "Everything Is Awesome" — because Lego), and generated the track in Suno. Total time: 13 minutes.

Topics: We're about to blow your minds · How Travis made the song: Perplexity → Claude → Suno · First listen · Joel finds Revid.ai · The prompt: "Lego-style music video" · The result — one pass, five minutes

Claude Fable is Blowing Our Minds - Bad Crypto Podcast #810

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The Worst It'll Ever Be: AI Apps in 20 Minutes, SpaceX's $1.8T IPO & Saylor's Head Fake — Bad Crypto Podcast #810 It's a bear market, so the bad boys of crypto are doing what builders do: SHIPPING. Bitcoin sits at $61,873, the altcoins are in the crapper, and Joel has officially divorced his bags. Travis explains why the 4-year cycle is alive and well — mapping this pullback exactly to previous cycles, with a projected bottom around mid-October.

Topics: Episode 810 kicks off — semi-retired no more · Bitcoin's 4-year cycle is mapping exactly · Saylor's head fake: sells 32 BTC, buys 1,500 more · Market check: BTC $61,873 & Joel divorces his altcoins · The AI trading edge: OKX & the 42-page prompt exchange · SpaceX IPO ($SPCX): $250B demand, $1.8T valuation

A Reality Engine for AI - Exploring XYO Network

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The conversation centers on a huge problem in both crypto and AI: digital systems are often blind to the real world. Smart contracts, AI agents, apps, and autonomous systems can process data, but they do not automatically know whether that data is true, where it came from, or whether someone tampered with it.

AI Video is Crazy!

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AI video has officially gone off the hook, off the chain, and possibly off the planet. In Episode 808 of The Bad Crypto Podcast, Joel Comm and Travis Wright are back in their original human form to explore just how crazy AI video creation has become.

Bitcoin Breaks $81K as AI Agents Start Spending Money

139 views · 6mo ago · 16:16

Bitcoin has blasted past $81,000, but somehow that is not even the wildest story in crypto this week. In Episode 807 of The Bad Crypto Podcast, Joel Comm and Travis Wright break down a massive week where Bitcoin ETF inflows surged, Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin stack grew to nearly 4% of the total supply, Google committed up to $40 billion toward Anthropic, and AI agents began crossing into territory once reserved for humans: opening accounts, making payments, and deploying…

AI Produced Bad Crypto!

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We asked AI to be the show producer this week by picking the top 10 stories in crypto — and to our surprise, it actually did a pretty great job. In Episode 806, Joel and Travis react to a packed lineup of stories including Kraken securing a Fed master account, Nasdaq and Kraken teaming up on tokenized stocks, the ongoing disappointment around the U.S.

Web 4.0 Has Arrived! What We're Building with AI Right Now

462 views · 7mo ago · 38:38

Guest: AI Right Now

What if the internet stopped waiting for you... and started working for you? In this episode, Joel and Travis show the real AI tools, agents, and systems they’re building right now — from automated news engines and live signal feeds to content publishing systems, games, voice clones, and blockchain-powered experiments.

AI Goes Rogue: The Wild Rise of OpenClaw

206 views · 8mo ago · 38:12

Guest: AI Goes Rogue

What if your AI assistant could negotiate your next car purchase, trade prediction markets, manage your inbox, and research crypto... while you sleep? This week we break down the insane rise of ClaudeBot → Moltbot → OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that rocketed past 200,000 GitHub stars and sparked a massive wave of autonomous agents almost overnight.

Is Quantum About to Break Bitcoin?

204 views · 8mo ago · 40:19

Guest: Christopher Steven Smith

Two years ago, quantum computing was a “someday problem.” Now NVIDIA is lobbying Congress. Ethereum is funding post-quantum research. Coinbase has launched a Quantum Advisory Board. So the question isn’t theoretical anymore.

Crypto Panic + The Epstein Bitcoin Rabbit Hole

497 views · 9mo ago · 32:05

Everything is fine... weeks where everyone is definitely not fine. In Episode 802, we dig into the crypto panic, the blood-in-the-streets charts, and the uncomfortable question nobody wants to say out loud Did the grown-ups finally show up to crypto... and ruin the party?

Topics: Panic in the markets + “did institutions ruin crypto?” · Market snapshot: blood in the streets · Institutional adoption vs. decentralization · Epstein files + what people are claiming · Travis explains the “mastermind” AI experiment · AI as leverage: finishing 25 days of work in 6.5 hours