The Bad Crypto Podcast

This week, Joel and Travis handed the producer role to AI and let it choose the top 10 stories in crypto. Surprisingly, the machine delivered.
Episode 806 covers Kraken’s direct access to Fed payment rails, the growing push toward tokenized stocks, the stalled progress of the U.S. Bitcoin reserve, the latest Trump meme coin pump, and why stablecoins may be becoming the true financial infrastructure story of crypto.
They also dig into Bitcoin outperforming gold during wartime, how banks are trying to protect their turf as stablecoin legislation moves forward, and why the next phase of adoption may have less to do with hype and more to do with rails, regulation, and real-world use.
It’s a fast-moving roundup of the biggest crypto stories of the week, with analysis, sarcasm, and a few detours only Bad Crypto could make work.
Show notes at http://badco.in/806
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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.
This is why we think Web 4.0 has arrived.
We break down:
Why Web 4.0 means the web is now building itself

How AI agents are researching, writing, coding, and running workflows

Travis’ AI-powered war news site and custom news anchor

Joel’s automated content engine for WorldVillage

Baseball Sudoku built with AI

New Blockchain Heroes videos and a working game prototype built in hours

Why the “idea person” is now more powerful than ever

How fast this technology is moving — and why most people still have no idea what’s coming

The tools are getting better.
The agents are getting smarter.
And the people who learn how to use them now are going to have a serious advantage.
This is not theory.
This is what we’re actually building.
Watch, get inspired, and then go build something.
Show notes and links:http://badco.in/805
If you’re experimenting with AI agents, tools, or automations, tell us what you’re building in the comments.
Stay bad.
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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.
But of course, crypto had to crypto.
Along the way, the project triggered a triple rebrand, a $16M scam token spun up by opportunists, and a security mess that unfolded in real time as attackers hunted for poorly-secured instances and exposed keys.
We also get into the bigger picture: as AI agents start doing real work for people (and eventually paying bills, trading, and moving value), crypto becomes the natural payment rail. Permissionless. Programmable. Always on. Which is exciting… and also a whole new playground for scammers.
We cover what happened, why it matters, and what you should do if you’re experimenting with agents: lock it down, separate machines/accounts, protect your keys, and don’t chase random tokens.
Show notes and links: http://badco.in/804
Leave a comment with the best OpenClaw tutorial you’ve found — we’ll dig in.
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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.
What happens to Bitcoin when quantum computers become powerful enough to crack today’s cryptography?
In Episode 803, we sit down with Christopher Steven Smith, CEO and co-founder of Quantus, a quantum-secure Layer 1 blockchain built using NIST-backed post-quantum cryptography.
We cover:
• What quantum computing actually is (without melting your brain)• How qubits differ from classical bits• Why elliptic curve cryptography may be vulnerable• Whether Bitcoin can realistically fork to quantum resistance• The risk to old wallets (including Satoshi’s coins)• Post-quantum signatures like Dilithium• Reversible transactions and whether they break crypto ethos• Whether the “digital gold” narrative was a strategic mistake
Is quantum an overhyped sci-fi scare tactic?
Or is it the next existential threat nobody is pricing in?
This is a sponsored episode. As always, we disclose that upfront. We took the interview because the topic is real, timely, and worth exploring.
Welcome to the future of cryptography.
Or the end of it.
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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?
We talk institutional adoption (ETFs, custody, control), how the “gatekeepers and suits” might be working the same old playbook, and why crypto feels weirdly toxic right now.
Then we take a hard left into a truly bizarre rabbit hole: new Jeffrey Epstein-related emails, claims floating around about funding Bitcoin Core, and what the Brock Pierce connection might mean (or might not mean). We don’t pretend to have final answers—just the receipts we can point to, the debates happening publicly, and a healthy dose of skepticism.
And because we can’t help ourselves, we also go off-road into AI, Elon, robots, peptides, and… yes… “you spit in a thing, you 💩 in a thing.” You’re welcome.
Educationally unsettling. Extra sarcasm. Always weird.

⏱️ Timestamps
00:16 Panic in the markets + “did institutions ruin crypto?”
02:53 Market snapshot: blood in the streets
06:03 Institutional adoption vs. decentralization
07:53 Epstein files + what people are claiming
09:57 Travis explains the “mastermind” AI experiment
16:33 Brock Pierce emails + what’s known vs. speculation
20:36 AI as leverage: finishing 25 days of work in 6.5 hours
21:53 Elon, xAI/SpaceX talk, and where this all goes
24:18 Robots, health tech, and the future getting weird fast
26:20 “Spit in a thing / 💩 in a thing” (yes, really)
Links & ResourcesLINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:
Epstein Files Drop!
DOJ Documents Reveal Who Really Built Bitcoin
Bruce Fenton Responds
Is Brock Pierce Behind Epsteins $3 Million Coinbase Investment?
SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
Crypto Tax Audit
CoinGecko.com
bitcoinTreasuries.net
Bull Market Peak Signals
Want more of the “mastermind” clips?
Tell us in the comments. If you’re into it, we’ll drop more of those weird little time-travel audio segments in future episodes.
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