The Highest of Stakes with Richard Heart encapsulates the narcissism of crypto
I usually start my reviews quite confident of what I’m going to write. For instance, before reading the BitBoy book it was easy to know what I was getting into simply by watching several of his obnoxious YouTube videos. I figured The Highest of Stakes , a documentary about a cryptocurrency known as Hex and its founder Richard Heart), would be similar. Heart’s real name is Richard Schuler. He’s loud, unpleasant, and narcissistic. Heart volunteered for the documentary and heavily promoted it — so I was sure it’d be another shill-fest. But The Highest of Stakes is no promotion of Hex. Essentially, it’s a 90-minute version of the scene from The Big Short where Mark Baum asks, “Why are [the mortgage brokers] confessing?” and his coworkers say, “They’re not… they’re bragging.” The Highest of Stakes and the madness of crowds The Highest of Stakes opens with investors describing Heart as a “god,” “messiah,” and “benevolent king.” Heart sits down and joyously lists off h...