BADcoin died. The mining pools disappeared. The blockchain went quiet. And for years, it looked like another forgotten altcoin destined for the crypto graveyard.

But somebody forgot to tell Michael.

In Episode 817 of The Bad Crypto Podcast, Joel Comm and Travis Wright welcome a longtime listener who discovered cryptocurrency through the show, mined his very first coins with BADcoin, and eventually took on the enormous challenge of resurrecting the original blockchain.

Now BADcoin is running again, and if you mined coins back in 2018 or 2019, your old wallet keys might still unlock a piece of Bad Cryptopia history.

We dig into what killed the original network, how Michael pieced it back together, the five mining algorithms that make BADcoin unusual, and how the community can help keep the network alive.

Plus, find out how to get a BADcoin wallet, join the community, explore mining, and even receive some BADcoin from Joel's personal stash.

One BAD still equals one BAD.

BADcoin 3.0 is here. We're back, baby!

Resources:

• BADcoin website: https://badcoin.net

• Development tools and block explorer: https://badcoin.dev

• Community Telegram: https://t.me/badcoinnet

• Email for free BADcoin: badcryptopodcast@gmail.com (Subject: BADcoin, include your public wallet address)

Educational and entertainment purposes only. Not financial advice.

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North Korea–linked hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance in roughly 20 minutes, the biggest crypto heist ever. It started with a fake job offer. Joel and Travis are back after two months to break down how the hack worked, Bitcoin's election-night dip and bounce as Democrats swept Congress, the stalled CLARITY Act, JPM Coin on Ethereum, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP coin, Coinbase letting AI agents trade, and Four.Meme coins only bots can buy early. Plus: next week, a coin near and dear to us returns from the dead.

Full show notes: https://badcryptopodcast.com/2026/11/DD/SLUG/

Not financial advice. Stay bad.

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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.

On August 18, the SEC published a 402-page proposing release called Regulation Crypto Assets: two registration exemptions plus a conditional safe harbor that can finally retire the "investment contract" label once an issuer permanently stops the managerial efforts it promised. For eight years this industry was regulated by lawsuit. For once, nobody had to get sued to find out what the rules were.

Meanwhile Bitcoin ripped more than 20% in a week — and is still down on the year. Joel says zoom out: $81K keeps rejecting price, that's a double top, and the four-year cycle still points at a bottom somewhere between late October and early December. Which makes this rally a bull trap until proven otherwise.

Also in this one: Open USD and its 140-partner consortium taking aim at Circle and Tether, the BankChain Alliance putting 3,283 banks on a chain of their own, Arthur Hayes coming out of retirement to sell food for AI agents, 512GB Macs that run frontier models on your desk, Anthropic's $65 billion run rate ahead of its IPO, and the guy calling the entire AI industry a con.
This is the last one until mid-November. Joel's getting married.

Full show notes: https://badco.in/815

Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com

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