800 Episodes Later: Bitcoin, Gold, AI, and the End of the Old Cycles
The Bad Crypto Podcast
Joel Comm and Travis Wright
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Eight hundred episodes in, crypto doesn’t feel wild anymore — and that might be the biggest story of all.
In this milestone episode, Joel and Travis kick off 2026 by unpacking a market that refuses to behave like it used to. Bitcoin isn’t mooning, but it isn’t collapsing either. Institutions are quietly vacuuming up supply, ETFs keep stacking, and the once-predictable four-year cycle looks stretched, warped, or possibly broken altogether.
The conversation moves beyond charts into bigger territory: why Bitcoin drawdowns are getting shallower, why gold and silver are exploding alongside crypto, and what an increasingly unstable global economy means for hard assets. Along the way, the guys reflect on how manipulation hasn’t disappeared — it’s just become more sophisticated — and why retail panic matters less when corporations and funds are waiting on every dip.
Episode 800 also zooms out to the future. AI’s acceleration, the coming wealth transfer, the growing divide between those who adapt and those who don’t, and why the next decade may reward understanding what’s possible more than chasing the next tool or token.
No predictions. No moon math. Just perspective earned over nine years, hundreds of cycles, and a market that’s finally starting to act… different.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2026 and we'd like to be the last people to wish you a happy new year. Being first is so |
| 0:05.8 | overrated. Since this is our first show of the year, we've got a lot of catching up to do. We'll look |
| 0:11.0 | at crypto prices, put on our 2020 hindsight glasses and tell you exactly how we should have known |
| 0:16.6 | what would happen in the market. We'll look at the soaring gold and silver prices, and we'll tell you what's up in our worlds, |
| 0:22.3 | and then you're going to have to go to your room |
| 0:24.2 | and think about what you've done. |
| 0:25.7 | So much to say, so much to do. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh, and did I mention that this is episode number 800 |
| 0:32.1 | of the Bad Crypto Podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | Five, four, three, two, one, zero, all engine running. |
| 0:43.3 | Lift-off. |
| 0:44.6 | Who's bad? |
| 1:01.9 | Sir Lord Travis Wright, the Burge Khalifa is going off behind you right now as you sit in Dubai. |
| 1:03.0 | That's AI, isn't it? |
| 1:05.0 | That's not AI. |
| 1:07.5 | That is the real thing. |
| 1:32.8 | And so about every, I think after 9 p.m., I think every 30 minutes it kicks off. So I don't know if it's done already, if it did this little thing. Well, what's cool is like sometimes I'll be sitting here and then I'll just see like a blue laser light. We'll just shine through the room. And I'll be like, oh, the bird is doing something. See, it's already done. Now it's back to the gold one. It's over. If you're just listening to the show, you wouldn't know that, but if you check out the video on the YouTube's, then you can see what we're talking about is Sir Lord |
| 1:37.7 | Travis is situated in Dubai and I am in Puerto Rico. This is the Bad Crypto podcast. Still, |
| 1:50.5 | 800 episodes later, the show for the Crypto Curious, the Crypto Serious, now in our ninth year. |
| 1:53.1 | And we've not given up yet, Lord Travis. |
| 1:54.0 | We've not given it. |
| 2:01.7 | Dude, there's been times where we were doing the show, where we're doing like three a week, sometimes more multiple interviews. Like when we were doing the ICO day stuff, we were interviewing two, three, four different companies. And it was just |
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