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 software.

The boys also dig into the explosive growth of tokenized real-world assets, including Treasuries, gold, and stocks moving on-chain, plus the looming May 21st deadline for the Clarity Act and what it could mean for XRP and the broader crypto market.

Crypto, AI, and traditional finance are no longer separate stories. They are becoming one very strange, very powerful story.

Welcome to the future. Stay bad.

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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

Stay bad!

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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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