A documented history from the transcript archive

Eleven appearances, and nine years of talking about him

Richard Heart was a guest on World Crypto Network eleven times between July 2017 and May 2020 — a regular, then a billed panellist, then a name the shows argued about for six more years. This is what he said on air, when, and what the hosts said about him before, between and after. On the day this was compiled he was reported detained in Istanbul; that is covered in section 08, sourced and separated from the archive.

Built from 6,529 local episode transcripts (WCN · Mad Bitcoins · The Bitcoin Group · Ugly Old Goat, 2013–2026) and 184 matching tweets from the host's archive · 126 distinct programmes mention him · Compiled 2026-10-14, after 16:00 UTC · Revised 2026-10-16: summary added at the top; the red-notice attribution tightened in section 08. The archive material and the compilation date are unchanged.

appearances, speaking, 2017–2020

126

distinct programmes that mention him

380

on-air mentions, de-duplicated

2017–2026

span of the discussion

184

matching tweets in the host's archive

programmes & records engaging the documentary

00 — Summary

The short version, and what it adds up to

Every claim below is established and sourced in the body; this is a compression, not an addition, and it carries the body's hedges with it. Each bullet links to the section that holds the evidence. Sections 02–07 are the local archive; 08 is outside reporting, kept separate.

What the report found

Eleven appearances, July 2017 to May 2020. He arrives as a call-in contributor to the news show, is a weekly fixture through August 2017, is billed on The Bitcoin Group in his own right as “Richard Hart, Bitcoin Thought Leader” (2017-08-11), and then becomes an interview subject rather than a panellist. Eleven is a floor, not a ceiling: further 2017 streams tag him in the host's promotional tweets with no establishing cue inside the recording, and those are left out rather than guessed at. A 2020-07-22 “Part 13” is the 2020-05-12 halvening stream republished and is counted once; a twelfth recording holds his voice only because the hosts rebroadcast his Roger Ver debate and talked over it.§02
The shows went on discussing him for six years after he stopped appearing. 126 distinct programmes mention him, 380 times de-duplicated, from 2017 to 2026, alongside 184 matching tweets in the host's own archive. The last mention is 2026-09-12, where he turns up as one critical voice among many about Blockstream.§02 §09
The archive was nearly invisible, and a transcriber's spelling is why. Whisper renders the name “Richard Hart” almost without exception — and also Hardon, Hock, Haltz, Hartz; HEX comes back as Hegs, Hax, hacks, tax, ex and six. Searching the four shows for “Richard Heart” returns 10 programmes; “Richard Hart” returns 126. Any earlier count built on the correct spelling of his name was undercounting by more than a factor of ten. The full-text index returns 129; re-scanning each transcript for a literal mention leaves 126, which is the figure used throughout.§01
January 2018: he disclosed a token sale of his own in the same breath as calling most of them scams. “I think most ICAs are scams. So now I have an ICO” — CFDToken.com — on a scheduled hour whose host had introduced him as perhaps having “the most well-rounded knowledge base in the entire Bitcoin community”. (“ICAs” is the transcriber for ICOs.)§03
February 2018 is where the network turned, and it is the single biggest block in the archive — 25 mentions in one episode. The turn was about a reversal: he had recently called Ethereum a scam and was now calling it the better investment, with a token sale coming. The same episode works through his real name, another broadcaster's doxing, and a 1990s spam accusation that the host attributed to “an article” and “the internet” and marked allegedly twice. That establishes what was said on air on that date. It does not establish the accusation, and nothing in this archive does. In the same episode the network discloses it had added him to its audio podcast lineup the day before.§04
The verdict on the project and the verdict on the man came apart early and stayed apart. Ugly Old Goat called HEX “just another shit coin” from “my friend Richard Hart” and coined the formula he kept using, “honest corrupt” (2019-04-14; that video is now dead and the link is kept as dead). On The Bitcoin Group #206 two of four panellists volunteered that they liked him personally, one of them calling him “kind of an artisan scammer”. In February 2020 he was read out as a Scammys nominee in two categories — the harshest material in the archive, and the only tier-C material, a large conference panel with no roll-call, so those voices are left unnamed rather than guessed.§04
May 2020, the two HEX interviews: he brought the securities disclaimer himself, unprompted, in both — reciting the expectation-of-profit-from-the-work-of-others test in his own words — and stated heavy downside in the same conversations as the returns: “I promise you that every crypto cryptocurrency drops 85 or 95 percent” alongside “it's up 93X. I don't know. 118 days.” The halvening party is the only recording in which a panel that had spent the previous hour criticising him challenges him live; the host opens it by declining to call scam.§03 §03
The documentary. The Highest of Stakes (2023), directed by Grant Peelle and Patrick Moreau, produced by Muse Storytelling, 1h33m, opened in US cinemas on 4 August 2023 across 28 markets — days after the SEC filed its civil complaint. Per Decrypt's reporting: the directors had been speaking with Heart since August 2021 and he was an active participant; he did not fund the film, though he would sometimes reimburse production for private flights and stays booked on his behalf; and an initial $1 million raised from private investors was more than doubled by over $1 million in crypto donations sourced largely from the HEX community. Moreau, asked whether Heart had in fact defrauded HEX holders, declined to say, citing no legal background, and hoped audience reaction would be “pretty darn close to 50/50”. That paragraph is reporting, not archive, and the report takes no position on what the film establishes.§06
The find: the archive is not silent about the film. It enters Thomas's own media library on 2024-01-10, catalogued with a watch record the same day, and three days later he reviews it as story of the week on The Bitcoin Group #391 — then returns to it in five further programmes over fifteen months. There is no tweet about it anywhere in the archive. His criticism is structural rather than personal: a documentary that stops before the ending, with HEX at 41 cents when people were buying, around 10 cents where the film stops, and around $0.007 when he last checked. He calls the genre “a series of Bitcoin con artist movies” and recommends the film twice anyway, once inside the red-notice segment.§06
The set and the wardrobe: the same objects for seven years. Across five programmes the inventory barely moves — candelabra, a cabinet or case of crystals, a throne, candles, tapestries, strong lighting, a good camera and microphone. The section carries no frames: no video of any of the eleven appearances is held anywhere this compilation could reach, and what was searched is written out rather than implied. Every detailed description comes from a programme after the appearances, so this is a record of how his presentation was remembered and re-described, not a contemporaneous one.§07 §07
The sharpest presentation observation in the archive is about broadcasting, not objects: on his own show he appeared in HD in front of the crystals and the throne and put his guests “in this little box in the corner in low definition”, able to mute them, turn them off or make them small. It is the one claim in that section a reader could verify from the recordings themselves. It comes from the Scammys panel, so it sits at tier C and the speaker is not named.§07
His own account of the costume is the best evidence in that section, and it is strategy. On his last WCN appearance he explains, unprompted, that the top hat and leopard jacket came after a self-help channel “didn't take off” — in a media economy where, he says in the same conversation, “clickbait is rewarded”. He is the only person in nine years of this material to explain the presentation rather than inventory it.§07
The SEC case ended on jurisdiction, not on the merits. The SEC sued in July 2023 over HEX, PulseChain and PulseX, naming Richard Schueler. On 28 February 2025 Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the Eastern District of New York dismissed the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, making no finding on whether the tokens were securities; the SEC told the court in April 2025 it would not amend, and the case closed. On air the host summarised this as HEX having been “declared fully legal”, which overstates the holding, and the report says so.§08
The red notice, held at one remove. Interpol issued a red notice for him in 2024 at Finland's request. That it lists a single charge of aggravated tax fraud is Decrypt's reading of the notice, not a reading of the primary document: this compilation could not open the entry, and an earlier draft of this page was corrected for calling the notice the part of the story that rested on nobody's reporting. A separately reported alleged assault is, per Decrypt, not on the notice. Protos puts the suspected unpaid tax in the hundreds of millions of euros, over a period press accounts give as June 2020 to April 2024. A red notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest — not an arrest warrant, not a charge, not a finding.§08 §08
14 October 2026, the compilation date: he is reported detained in Istanbul, together with his wife, by Daily Sabah citing the Turkish agency IHA, carried by Decrypt at 14:03 UTC and Protos at 15:36 UTC. No authority has confirmed any of it — not Turkish prosecutors, not Finnish police, not Interpol. The seizure tallies conflict badly: the cash figure differs between accounts by a factor of nearly seven and the watch count by nearly three, so the report cites the range rather than picking one. He has not been convicted anywhere, no charge in Turkey has been reported, and the US case was dismissed.§08 §08
One on-air claim the report refuses to carry forward. On 2026-04-18 the host read a viewer's chat message and then a summary he attributed to “Google AI”, which asserted that he “remains a fugitive”. He sourced it plainly and did not claim it as reporting. An AI summary read aloud is not a source for the legal status of a named person, and this report does not adopt it.§08

What it all means

Interpretation, stated as such. He is a living person who has been detained in an unresolved matter; where conduct is alleged, the allegation is attributed to whoever makes it, and the readings below are about the evidence rather than about him.

He put the objection on the record himself, before anyone else could. The pattern is consistent across the recordings: disclosing his own ICO immediately after calling most ICOs scams; bringing an unprompted securities disclaimer to both HEX interviews; naming the multi-level version of his own referral programme as “like a super scam” and then declining it; promising 85–95% drawdowns in the same conversations as a 93× figure. What the archive establishes is the pattern. What it cannot settle is what the pattern was for — candour, inoculation, or legal positioning — and that is close to the question the shows argued over for six years without agreeing. Ugly Old Goat's “honest corrupt” is the nearest anyone came to naming the split.§03 §04
The candelabra was a production decision, and the evidence for that is his own. The hosts guessed it from the outside twice, seven years apart — “he could be in a basement somewhere, or he could be in the Taj Mahal” (2018) and “a theatrical thing, like a movie” (2025) — and in 2020 he described it from the inside as an adjustment made after the content underneath it failed to travel. So the set reads as strategy rather than as a window into a lifestyle, and that reading needs no inference about the man: it is what he said about it.§07
Across the HEX launch what changed was the vocabulary, not the inventory. The same objects are listed on both sides of the line; what moves is the framing, from curiosity in 2018 (“It's amazing, right?”) to catalogue-as-evidence from 2023. One host asserts the thing itself got worse — “it got much, much worse with Hex”. With no frames held, the report cannot adjudicate between a change in the presentation and a change in the reading of it, and does not try.§07
The shows' treatment of him tracked what he was selling, not what was alleged about his past. The February 2018 turn was about a reversal on Bitcoin and a coming token sale. The 1990s material surfaced in that same episode and the host hedged it every time he touched it, said “I haven't wanted to throw him under the bus” and “we're not roasting Richard here”, and the archive never returns to it as fact. Six years on the shape is the same: the project is argued about, the man is someone several of his sharpest critics said on the record that they liked.§04
Hostility to the project and hospitality to the guest ran side by side for the whole run. He kept a standing invitation through the arguments — a billed panel seat, a podcast-lineup slot added the day before the episode that turned on him, and a 2020 live confrontation that the host opened by refusing to call scam and closed hoping to have him back. When the man who first booked him reviewed the relationship in 2024, the praise that survived was for the only conduct this archive can actually vouch for: “He showed up on time like Adam said, he did our shows. He was respectful about it.”§04
The shows got things wrong, and the errors are part of the record rather than something to tidy away. A personal-jurisdiction dismissal became “declared fully legal” on air; an AI summary calling a named person a fugitive was read out as a status update; a panellist's speculative description of an unproven assault allegation sits in the archive and is deliberately not reproduced here. The report marks each rather than repeating or deleting it — the same discipline that puts the single-charge detail above in Decrypt's name and not Interpol's.§08
Three separate questions have been open the whole time, and none has been answered. Whether HEX was what its critics said it was — argued from 2019 to 2025, never agreed. Whether it was an unregistered securities offering — the SEC case ended on where it could be heard, not on what HEX was. And the Finnish tax allegation, which is a third question again. Today's reported detention is said to relate to the third. It resolves none of them.§08 §09
The arc adds up to a thoroughly documented performer and a set of allegations the archive cannot speak to. Nine years of recordings establish what he said, when he said it, how he presented himself, and how the people who put him on air came to describe him. They establish nothing about the 1990s, nothing about HEX's merits, and nothing about Finland. As of the compilation date he is reported detained in an unresolved matter, has not been charged in Turkey as reported, and has not been convicted anywhere. Nine years after “Richard, go ahead” he is still in the show's running order — as a name in the copy rather than a voice on the line.§09
What makes the archive worth having is that it is dated. None of this is retrospective reconstruction: the billing, the turn, the split verdict, the Scammys, the documentary review and the red-notice segment were each recorded on the day, by the same network, over nine years. That is also why the one perishable thing here — a detention reported hours before compilation — is fenced into its own section behind a timestamp instead of being folded into the history.§08

01Method, and one correction to the index

The transcripts have no speaker labels. They are Whisper output: one undifferentiated stream of text per episode. The Bitcoin Group is a panel show with a rotating cast, so a transcript gives you the words and not the mouth. The same four-tier convention used in the Tether report applies here, and every quote below carries the grounds it rests on.

Tier	Grounds
A	The show's own machinery points forwards to the speaker: a preceding hand-off that this quote answers with no other roster name intervening, a self-identification inside the passage, or a single-voice programme.
A−	The machinery points backwards: the turn ends in a hand-off to someone else, or the next turn names the speaker and reports what they just said, or third-person elimination against a roster of known size.
B	The roster is known from the cold-open roll-call, but which person said the line is not established. No unidentified voice at this tier is named; where a B passage contains an exchange, Heart's own turns within it are tiered separately.
C	No roster source for that voice at all.

Most named quotes in this report clear tier A on a forward-pointing cue. Three sit at A−, all of them in section 07 and all of them the host on his own programme, with the backwards-pointing grounds quoted on the card. Three sit at B and two at C. The five unattributed lines are flagged as such on the card rather than in a footnote.

Writing style, known opinions and subject-matter expertise are deliberately not used as attribution signals. They are exactly the signals that produce confident misattribution, and this is a report about a living named person.

A spelling problem that hid the archive

The transcriber renders the name “Richard Hart” almost without exception — and also Hardon, Hock, Haltz, Hartz. Searching the four shows' transcripts for “Richard Heart” returns 10 programmes. Searching for “Richard Hart” returns 126. “Hex” comes back as Hegs, Hax, hacks, tax, ex and six. Any earlier count built on the correct spelling of his name was undercounting by more than a factor of ten.

On the headline figure: the full-text index returns 129 programmes for the name and project variants together, but re-scanning each transcript for a literal mention leaves 126. The three that drop out matched the index on a fragment inside another word rather than on his name — Today in Bitcoin of 2017-12-13 and 2018-01-04, and the Bitcoin Talk Show AfterDark of 2018-06-14. 126 is the figure used throughout, and the appendix in section 10 lists all of them.

One apparent appearance that is not one

The archive holds an episode titled 2020 Bitcoin Halving (Halvening) — WCN — Part 13 — Richard Heart, dated 2020-07-22. Its transcript is the same material as the 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party livestream of 2020-05-12, down to the line where he joins (“it looks like Richard Hart wants to join”): the halving stream was cut into numbered audio parts and republished that July. It is one occasion with two publication dates, and it is counted once. The count of eleven is also a floor, not a ceiling — several further 2017 streams tag him in the host's promotional tweets without an establishing cue inside the recording, and those are left out rather than guessed at.

02The appearances

He arrives in July 2017 as a call-in contributor to the news show, is a weekly fixture through August, is billed on The Bitcoin Group in his own right, and then becomes an interview subject rather than a panellist. The last appearance is in May 2020.

Date	Programme	Role	Establishing cue — host speech; the cue establishes Heart's presence, not who uttered it
2017-07-09	Bitcoin News #44 — State of UASF ✓	Contributor	“Richard, go ahead”
2017-07-23	Bitcoin News #45 — BIP91 Lock In, Parity Hack ✓	Contributor	“Go ahead, Richard” ×3
2017-08-02	Bitcoin Cash Trading Frenzy is ON — Live Look ✓	Panel	“joined by Richard”; “Richard, what do you think”
2017-08-06	Bitcoin News #46 — BCH Launch, New ATHs ✓	Contributor	“Go ahead, Richard” ×2
2017-08-08	Segregated Witness Lock-In (LIVE) ✓	Guest	“We're also joined by Richard Hart. How's it going Richard?”
2017-08-11	The Bitcoin Group #154 ✓	Billed panellist	Cold-open roll-call: “Richard Hart, Bitcoin Thought Leader.”
2017-08-17	Today in Bitcoin — Australia Regulates ✓	Guest	“joined by Richard”
2017-08-20	Today in Bitcoin — Could Bitcoin reach $619,047? ✓	Guest	“joined by Richard”; “How's it going Richard”
2018-01-11	One-on-One w/ Andy Hoffman #18 ✓	Billed sole guest	Title; host intro; “Thanks for having me.”
2020-05-04	Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart ✓	Billed sole guest	Title; two-voice programme
2020-05-12	2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party (republished 2020-07-22 as Part 13) ✓	Joins mid-stream	“Looks like Richard Hart wants to join”; “Richard you muted”

A twelfth recording holds his voice without being an appearance. On 2017-08-25 the hosts rebroadcast his debate with Roger Ver and talked over it, having tried and failed to book him:

“We would have Richard Hart on the show, but he like stayed up all night, like doing this debate and everything. So I believe that he's sleeping at the moment.”

Thomas HuntA Ver vs Heart Debate: WCN Commentary · 2017-08-25

03What he said on the shows

2017: billed as a thought leader, arguing Bitcoin needs more uses

In the 2017 appearances he is a Bitcoin advocate with a technical, contrarian register. His recurring argument is that Bitcoin is losing market share because other chains are serving uses it cannot, and that this is Bitcoin's problem rather than theirs.

“Bitcoin used to be 100% of the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin is now about 50%. And while we've been talking about all this cool stuff that we love, digital gold, other people have been fulfilling other use cases that Bitcoin cannot.”

Richard HeartA Segregated Witness Lock-In (LIVE) · 2017-08-08

“So if you want to see Bitcoin go to the moon the same way all these other little alts are doing you need to get drive chains and side chains activated on Bitcoin period.”

Richard HeartA Segregated Witness Lock-In (LIVE) · 2017-08-08

The same show has him making the argument that would be quoted back at him for years — that it is better for people determined to lose money to lose it buying Bitcoin first:

“They are mostly scams, okay? But the question is, if you can't stop these people from blowing their wad and being stupid anyway … Would you rather that those scammers need to purchase a good, secure, minimum security risk, minimum attack surface Bitcoin? Or would you rather they compound their risk by buying their crap scam from a coin that's also a scam?”

Richard HeartA Segregated Witness Lock-In (LIVE) · 2017-08-08

On The Bitcoin Group three days later, billed as “Bitcoin Thought Leader”, his answers are market-structural rather than ideological:

“And then we started to get massive news out of of mine shift changing amongst the people who have the real money. The guys that have 10 or 20 staff in a family office, billions and billions and billions of dollars that always laughed at the Ponzi scheme that was Bitcoin, they ain't laughing anymore.”

Richard HeartA The Bitcoin Group #154 · 2017-08-11

January 2018: the ICO disclosure

The last of the Bitcoin-era appearances is a scheduled hour with Andy Hoffman on the themes of 2018. Partway through, he discloses a token sale of his own, having just said that most token sales are scams:

“I think most ICAs are scams. So now I have an ICO, and it's, you know, you can go to CFDToken.com and read a little bit about it. So that I will be proud to be a member of the .01% of legit awesome projects. The rest of these projects are terrible.”

Richard HeartA One-on-One w/ Andy Hoffman #18 · 2018-01-11 · “ICAs” is the transcriber for ICOs

He also gives the clearest statement in the archive of how he thought about his own price calls, and why he had just withdrawn one:

“I've been pretty good on the price predictions. So. was 5K and then 20K and my targets got hit. And I was very happy about that. And I had 50K on there for a while. And that got delayed …”

Richard HeartA One-on-One w/ Andy Hoffman #18 · 2018-01-11

The host's framing of him that day is worth setting beside what the same network would say four weeks later:

“The reason being that Richard may have the most well-rounded knowledge base in the entire Bitcoin community. Even if he upstages me for the entire hour or so it will be worth it.”

Andy HoffmanA One-on-One w/ Andy Hoffman #18 · 2018-01-11

May 2020: the two HEX interviews

He returns twice in May 2020, by then running HEX. Both recordings are long, and in both he puts a securities-law disclaimer at the front of the conversation unprompted, reciting the expectation-of-profit-from-the-work-of-others formulation in his own words:

“It's very important that no one have any expectations of profit from the work of others, because this is not a security. This is not something where you get promises and expectations, and then rely on the entrepreneur or managerial effort to someone else to fulfill those things. This is not that. There is no roadmap.”

Richard HeartA Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart · 2020-05-04

“I have a unique position where I have to do no work for Hex. Because we have this thing called the government. The government says that if people give money to a common pool with the expectation of profit, solely from the work of others, it can be considered a security. So I have to make an effort to let you know that I am not doing a single fucking thing to help you or your bag whatsoever. The project is complete.”

Richard HeartA 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party · 2020-05-12

He is explicit on air that he does not know what the price will do, and equally explicit about downside — in the same conversations as the return figures:

“I promise you that every crypto cryptocurrency drops 85 or 95 percent. Some of them get back up. There's my promise. That's what the charts say … I tell you that there's no guarantees, no promises, no work, but motherfuckers just, they pretend that I said that there was. They're like, yeah, Richard said it's going to go up. I don't fucking know what the price is going to do. I have no idea.”

Richard HeartA Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart · 2020-05-04

“I'm the one that tells you every crypto drops 95 to 85 fucking percent. And a lot of them don't get back up. I'm the guy that tells you that … I wouldn't be surprised to see it drop 85 or 95 percent.”

Richard HeartA 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party · 2020-05-12 · the final clause is about HEX

The figures he cited on air, 2020-05-04

Claim, as spoken	Subject
“it's up 93X. I don't know. 118 days.”	HEX price since launch
“the average stake length in hex is for point two years”	Staking — 4.2 years
“when you claim your free hacks, 90% of it is auto-staked for a minimum of 350 days”	Claim mechanics
“over 200,000 Bitcoin has cryptographically verifiably claimed with their hex”	Adoption
“There's $13 million of liquidity on chain, no signup, no AML, no KYC, no selfies”	Liquidity
“It's a lower rate at a maximum of 3.69.”	Inflation

The business model he described for the project was a bank product moved on-chain:

“I think one of the top two or three products at your bank is that CD the time deposit because people want to save money and make a little bit more interest. So is anyone in the blockchain built the time deposit? No, I did.”

Richard HeartA Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart · 2020-05-04

And the marketing mechanics, volunteered rather than extracted:

“Referral program. Amazon's got one, Tesla's got one, scams fucking have them. Okay, let's put a referral program there. Should we make it multi-level? So it's like a super scam? No, single level.”

Richard HeartA Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart · 2020-05-04

The May 2020 confrontation, in full sequence

The halvening-party appearance is the only recording in the archive where he is challenged live by a panel that has spent the previous hour criticising him. The host opens by declining to call it a scam:

“We had a similar situation with Andy Hoffman here on the World Crypto Network where he was promoting B-Rodium and I never believed in B-Rodium … So I allowed Andy to keep talking about it … Maybe Richard's going to post a similar thing in a few years. But I just think we can allow people the freedom to explore other things. We don't have to call scam on everything.”

Thomas HuntA 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party · 2020-05-12

A second host — the roster is known, the voice is not — introduces him warmly:

“Before anyone else talks now I just want to say like hex whatever else to one side Richard Hart has been a voice of wisdom in Bitcoin and Bitcoin related to topics for quite a while and it's a pleasure to have him on WCN.”

Unattributed — panel roster known from the cold openB 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party · 2020-05-12

His first words are about how he is usually received:

“So I don't know how to take it. I'm used to only mean mean comments.”

Richard HeartA 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party · 2020-05-12

The sharpest exchange in the archive follows later, when a panellist tells him his criticisms of Bitcoin would have been better as a blog post:

“everything that Richard said was a true it was all true it was all lovely but like right a blog post about it but don't start a whole new cryptocurrency … I'm not saying that it should be regulated or you should not be allowed to do it but I also don't think that we should promote it or give it undue attention.”

Unattributed — panel roster known from the cold openB 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party · 2020-05-12

And a disputed attribution, live, about whether he had claimed to be profiting:

“— And criticizing something is one thing about having something to sell on the other, especially when he's saying that he's profiting from it. — Yeah, I'm pretty sure I didn't say that. — Yeah, you did.”

Three turns: unattributed panellist, then Heart, then the panellist again. The panellist is at tier B — roster known, voice not. Heart's own turn is tier A: he is the subject being answered and names himself in the reply.B 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party · 2020-05-12 · first clause garbled by the transcriber

04What the shows said about him

The arc is unusually legible, because the same network recorded every stage of it.

2017-08-11Billed on The Bitcoin Group in the cold-open roll-call as “Richard Hart, Bitcoin Thought Leader.”
2018-02-05An emergency price-drop stream becomes a panel post-mortem of an interview he had given elsewhere, in which the panel judged he had turned against Bitcoin. The same episode works through his real name, a doxing, and a 1990s allegation.
2019-04-14On Ugly Old Goat, the then-new HEX project is “just another shit coin” from “my friend Richard Hart”, and the host coins the formula he keeps using: “honest corrupt”.
2019-12-13The Bitcoin Group #206 covers HEX as a news item. Two of four panellists volunteer that they like him personally.
2020-02-23He is read out as a nominee in two categories at the Scammys, an awards segment recorded at the Unconfiscatable conference. Two panellists say on air that they are voting for HEX in one of them. The public vote was run on Twitter and no result is declared in the recording.
2020-05-12He joins live and is argued with directly. The host signs off hoping to have him back.
2024-01-13He reviews the documentary The Highest of Stakes on TBG #391, three days after adding it to his own media library, and returns to it in five further programmes. See section 06.
2024-09-20Adam Meister, who first put him on air, reviews the whole relationship in a two-man retrospective.
2025-04-26The Bitcoin Group #452 covers the end of the SEC case. The panel's reading of what it means is split four ways.
2026-09-12The last mention in the archive: a news read in which he is one voice among many criticising Blockstream after the Liquid incident.
2026-10-14Outside the archive, and today: he is reported detained in Istanbul under the red notice. See section 08.

February 2018: the episode where the network turned

This is the longest single block about him in the archive, and the most careful to listen to, because it is where the background material enters the record. The host's own narration is heavily hedged, and the hedges are part of the quote:

“So he doxed him all over the internet and Richard Hart helped a little bit by putting out what he said is his real name. His real name according to the Twitter and the internet is Richard Schuler.”

Thomas HuntA WCN #LIVE — Special Comments on the Bitcoin Price Drop · 2018-02-05

“After that, Richard himself put a link up to article purporting to describe Richard Schuller the spam king. Back in the 90s, Richard Schuller was accused of being the spam king sending out lots of emails that people didn't want, selling them products that maybe they didn't want or didn't need. You know, that's the idea. And allegedly, some people assume this is how he made his money.”

Thomas HuntA WCN #LIVE — Special Comments on the Bitcoin Price Drop · 2018-02-05

What that passage does and does not establish

It establishes that on 2018-02-05 the host described, on air, an accusation he attributed to an article and to the internet, twice marked as alleged, about conduct in the 1990s. It does not establish the accusation. Nothing in this archive does, and this report does not treat it as established. The same episode has Thomas Hunt say “I haven't wanted to throw him under the bus” and “I also want to address what people are saying in the chat. We're not roasting Richard here” — both tier A, from a self-identified host turn — and has Corey, who says on air that he handles the network's behind-the-scenes work, disclose that WCN had added him to its audio podcast lineup the previous day.

The substantive criticism in that episode is about a reversal, not a crime:

“this is someone who has said for a very long time that he was the ultimate Bitcoin maximalist and it's okay if he changes his mind … But this is someone who just recently said Ethereum is a scam and now he's saying Ethereum is the better investment.”

Andy HoffmanA WCN #LIVE — Special Comments on the Bitcoin Price Drop · 2018-02-05

“He put his name to 20k Richard Hard and then 50k Richard Hard. Everyone was very behind it on the way up … And then we kind of drifted over the top there. And the 50K went away and the 20K went away. We were just left with Richard Hart.”

Thomas HuntA WCN #LIVE — Special Comments on the Bitcoin Price Drop · 2018-02-05

2019–2020: HEX as a news item, and the Scammys

What is striking about the HEX coverage is how many panellists separate the project from the man. On #206, two of four do it unprompted:

“Personally, I like Richard Hart. I've had many conversations with the guy.”

CoreyA TBG #206 · 2019-12-13 · cue: “Cory, are you ready? What do you think of Richard Hart and the hex coin?”

“equally like Corey, I like him and he said some great things in the past and he's made some great calls and I've followed some of his great calls and made a little bit of money on the side so I can't give him too much crap … But I mean, he's kind of an artisan scammer. He could use his powers for good, and he has in the past he's used it for good.”

Ben, of BTC IoTA TBG #206 · 2019-12-13 · cue: the host's hand-off “then from Wales” (garbled “Ben from Wales”), with no roster name intervening; the speaker also addresses Corey in the third person

On Ugly Old Goat eight months earlier, the host had found a phrase for the same split verdict and used it three times in one episode:

“Richard Hart admittedly says, hey, this is his way of getting rich quick and you can follow me with it. So, you know, I call it, it's honest corrupt. I mean, the guy is very upfront about it. And so I take my hat off, Richard Hart, you know. The other ICOs ought to admit the same thing.”

Ugly Old GoatA Bitcoin Freedom · 2019-04-14 (video unavailable; link recorded)

The Scammys segment of 2020-02-23 is the harshest material in the archive, and it is also the material where attribution fails hardest: it is a large conference panel, votes are cast in rapid succession, and there is no cold-open roll-call to work from, so most voices cannot be tied to a name at all. The whole segment therefore sits at tier C — the only tier-C material in the report. One line is worth recording for what it says about the archive's own self-assessment:

“in hindsight, Vinnie Lehm's probably should have not been on this list, but Richard Hart should have been. So, uh, next year we'll do a much better job.”

Unattributed — conference panel, no roster sourceC WCN LIVE from Unconfiscatable · 2020-02-23 · the garbled name is Vinny Lingham, a nominee in the same category

2024: the man who booked him first, reviewing it

“Let's talk about Richard Hart when he would appear. You brought him to the world. It's because of you people know who Richard Hart is. He had his break on this very show, okay?”

Thomas Hunt, to Adam MeisterA Today in #Bitcoin History with Adam Meister · 2024-09-20

“His big thing when he was on a Thompson show and my show was, well, Bitcoin was the only thing out there. It was gonna go to $20,000. No matter what, he was gonna be right. And he would be little people who talked about altcoins insult them. People would cheer him on because they couldn't, you know, they were living through him and he created a cult. Successful cult.”

Adam MeisterA Today in #Bitcoin History with Adam Meister · 2024-09-20 · “a Thompson show” and “be little” are transcriber garbles for Thomas's show and belittle

The host's closing assessment in that episode is the archive's most even-handed sentence about him, and it is about conduct the archive can actually vouch for — being a guest:

“I always thought he was an interesting guy. He expressed himself very well no matter what it was. He had cool backdrops with chandeliers and crystal stuff. He showed up on time like Adam said, he did our shows. He was respectful about it.”

Thomas HuntA Today in #Bitcoin History with Adam Meister · 2024-09-20

05The troubles, as the shows discussed them

Five distinct matters get discussed on the shows across six segments, and they should not be run together. Each is listed here with the date it was discussed and what the discussion actually asserted.

Date	Matter, as discussed on air	How it was framed
2018-02-05	A doxing by another broadcaster; his real name; a 1990s accusation	Attributed to “an article” and “the internet”, marked “allegedly” twice by the host
2020-01-10	Ethereum moving out of the HEX origin address	The host reads figures from an article; panellists speculate; nothing concluded
2023-06-03	PulseChain and PulseX launch problems	Technical complaints about fees and tooling, plus marketing criticism
2024-12-28	An Interpol red notice reported in the press — a request to locate, not a charge or a conviction	Read from an article in the show's crime segment; panellists repeatedly say they do not know
2025-04-26	The end of the SEC case	Read as a win; the panel disagrees about what kind
2026-04-18	A status update on the red notice	Sourced on air to a viewer's chat message and to “Google AI” — see the warning below

On the Ethereum movement in January 2020, the host's read is scrupulous about what was and was not known:

“the funds which were structured like a donation to Hex were allegedly held in that account that even heart could not control. More than $7 million worth of Ethereum were moved.”

Thomas HuntA The Bitcoin Group #208 · 2020-01-10

On the red notice in December 2024, the panel's dominant note is uncertainty:

“I can't really speak to his innocent stories, or his guilt, but I can just, for me personally, I like projects that have true fundamental value … in terms of his projects and in terms of his guilt, I don't know either.”

Joshua ScigalaA TBG #436 · 2024-12-28 · cue: “Josh Chagall, what do you think about Richard Hart being wanted by Interpol…” · two adjacent passages joined

The host's own comparison that night was to the pattern rather than the person:

“It does seem a little reminiscent of Julian Assange where they were upset at him for for WikiLeaks, but then they had this additional sexual assault charge, which may be bad, maybe horrible, we don't know.”

Thomas HuntA The Bitcoin Group #436 · 2024-12-28

Deliberately not reproduced

The 2024-12-28 segment includes a panellist's speculative description of the alleged assault. The allegation is unproven and the description is not reproduced here, in whole or in part. The same episode contains a panellist's prediction that he would be imprisoned; that is also left out, as a prediction about an unresolved matter.

06The documentary, and what the shows made of it

A feature documentary about him and HEX exists, and the archive engaged with it more than it engaged with almost anything else about him after 2020. First the film, from public sources; then what the shows did with it, which is the part that belongs to this archive.

The film, from public sources — context, not archive material

The Highest of Stakes (2023), directed by Grant Peelle and Patrick Moreau, produced by Muse Storytelling, lead producer Caitlin Miranda. Runtime 1h33m. It opened in US cinemas on Friday 4 August 2023, screening at Regal in selected theatres across 28 markets, and is now on digital platforms including Amazon and Apple TV. Platform listings checked on the compilation date disagree on the distributor, Apple TV crediting Indican and Kaleidescape crediting Magnolia Pictures.

Its own marketing framing, in the trailer, was whether Heart had engineered “the investment of a lifetime” or “the steal of the century” — distributor copy, quoted here as that and not as a finding. The SEC filed its civil complaint in late July 2023, days before the premiere.

Reporting on the film's making matters to how its claims should be read, and it is reporting rather than archive. In Decrypt on 15 August 2023, Sander Lutz recorded that the directors had been speaking with Heart since August 2021 and that he was an active participant. The producers raised an initial $1 million from private investors and then, per Moreau, over $1 million more in crypto donations sourced largely from the HEX community, more than doubling the budget. Heart did not fund the film, though he would sometimes reimburse production for private flights and stays booked on his behalf. Moreau, asked whether Heart had in fact defrauded HEX holders, declined to say, citing no legal background, and hoped audience reaction would be “pretty darn close to 50/50”. Lutz's own assessment of the film — that its critics fixate on HEX's underlying value rather than on Heart's alleged conduct — is Lutz's, and is recorded here as his.

The report takes no position on what the film establishes. It is a documentary with a participating subject and community funding, which is a thing worth knowing about a documentary and not by itself a verdict on it.

The archive is not silent: six programmes and a library record

This is the find. The film enters Thomas's own media library on 2024-01-10 — catalogued with the studio field reading Muse Storytelling, with a watch record the same day — and three days later he reviews it as story of the week on The Bitcoin Group #391. He then returns to it in five more programmes over fifteen months. There is no tweet about it anywhere in the archive; the watch record is the only trace outside the shows.

Date	Where	What happens
2024-01-10	Media library	The film is catalogued and watched
2024-01-13	TBG #391	Reviewed at length as story of the week, with HEX price figures
2024-01-27	TBG #393	Listed among the crypto films he is working through
2024-09-20	Today in Bitcoin History	Recommended; its missing ending noted
2024-12-28	TBG #436	Recommended to the audience in the red-notice segment
2025-02-01	TBG #440	Grouped with the HBO Peter Todd film as “still unfolding”
2025-04-26	TBG #452	A panellist's whole reading of the SEC outcome rests on having watched it

The #391 review is the most substantive thing anyone on these shows said about the film, and its criticism is structural rather than personal — it is about where a documentary chooses to stop:

“This week I watched the highest of stakes, the Richard Hart and Hex movie. I don't really want to give any spoilers if you haven't gotten a chance to see it. My main opinion of the film is it's a little neutral at the end. It all matters about where you stop your documentary. If you stop your Napoleon documentary halfway through, he's ruling Europe. He's a magnificent ruler. He's the king of the world. If you stop your Napoleon documentary at the end, he's been deposed. He's living on a small island and so forth.”

Thomas HuntA TBG #391 · 2024-01-13 · single-voice closing monologue; the speaker runs the running order and closes the show

He then puts numbers to the point. These are his figures as spoken, not independently checked here:

“So their documentary, people were buying the Hex token at around 41 cents. At the time they stopped their documentary, I think it was around 10 cents. I recently checked it was around 007, so like 7 tenths of a cent. So well down from 41 cents.”

Thomas HuntA TBG #391 · 2024-01-13

The same complaint, eight months later, in plainer form:

“So at the end of the documentary, unfortunately, they don't have the final price on Hex at the end. They still kind of say, we don't know if it's going to go up or down.”

Thomas HuntA Today in #Bitcoin History with Adam Meister · 2024-09-20 · two-voice programme

And the #391 monologue ends on the genre rather than the subject:

“It's unfortunate we aren't seeing a positive Bitcoin documentaries that much rather read one about the programmers or the people that made money or the people that got freedom in Africa or something like that. But unfortunately we're seeing a series of Bitcoin con artist movies.”

Thomas HuntA TBG #391 · 2024-01-13 · “rather read” is a transcriber garble for “rather than”

Despite that, he recommends it twice from the host's chair, including inside the segment about the red notice — “everyone should check out the Richard Hart documentary, The Highest of Stakes” (2024-12-28) — and groups it with the HBO Peter Todd film as “an exciting time for Bitcoin documentaries … all of these things, still unfolding in public” (2025-02-01). Both tier A, both host news reads.

The film's longest after-life in the archive is as somebody else's evidence. Victoria Jones's reading of the SEC outcome in April 2025 — the one that treats HEX as a replication of the existing financial system rather than a deviation from it — is built entirely on having watched it:

“I'm not an expert on hex but I did watch the documentary and I got the impression reading between the lines that ultimately he has designed his, altcoin using the mechanisms of the existing financial system.”

Victoria JonesA TBG #452 · 2025-04-26 · cue: “Let's go to Victoria Jones. What do you think…” · also cut as a YouTube Short, 2025-05-05

07The set, the wardrobe and the production

Self-presentation was not incidental to the HEX phenomenon; it was part of the pitch, and the shows noticed it from the first appearances to the last mention. What follows is about the things he chose — what he wore, what he stood in front of, what he put on the shelf behind him, how he framed the people he spoke to. Those were decisions made on camera by a public figure promoting a project, and the archive dates them.

Where this report stops

This section covers clothing, objects, backgrounds and production choices. It does not cover his body or his face, and nothing here is an observation about how he looks. That is the difference between a documentary record and a sneer, and the record is the more damning of the two because it can be checked. Where a thing cannot be identified from the evidence, it is described rather than named: the archive gives “fine clothing” and “a smoking jacket or whatever”, so no brand, model or price is asserted here that was not said on air.

No frames: what was looked for and what is actually held

This section was meant to carry one or two dated stills per appearance. It carries none: no video of any of the eleven appearances is held in any folder this compilation can reach. Both connected folders were searched for .mp4, .mkv, .webm and .mov — 120 video files, all saved Twitter clips, no episodes; bitcoingroup-audio is audio only; media.db is the home film-and-games catalogue, not an episode store; and the 25,000-file screenshot corpus is a tree of symlinks into an unmounted Downloads folder, with only fifty irrelevant 256-pixel thumbnails actually on disk.

Frames were not pulled from YouTube instead: the eleven recordings are linked in section 02 for a reader to watch, and an illustrated version needs either that Downloads folder mounted or the drive holding the episode masters — Thomas's decision, not something to route around. The Ugly Old Goat episode already found dead is the reminder of why the masters matter.

A methodological point worth stating first

The archive describes his set in detail, but almost never while he is on it. The eleven appearances are audio-first transcripts in which nobody narrates the furniture; every detailed description below comes from a programme after them, looking back. So this is a record of how his presentation was remembered and re-described over seven years — a real record with real dates, and not a contemporaneous one.

The inventory, as the shows describe it

The same objects recur across seven years and five programmes with a consistency that suggests the set changed little: a candelabra, a cabinet or case of crystals, a throne or throne-like chair, candles, tapestries, strong lighting, good camera and microphone. The earliest full description is also the most detailed, and it is retrospective by three weeks:

“He appeared on the crypto scene. He had a beautiful candelabra, a fantastic microphone, a great camera, and some really wacky backgrounds, including some fancy crystals and tapestries, a thrown room. It's amazing, right? The guy popped out and know where everyone's like, who is this guy? He's velvet brocade. Velvet brocade. Everything.”

Thomas HuntA WCN #LIVE — Special Comments on the Bitcoin Price Drop · 2018-02-05 · “a thrown room” is the transcriber for throne room

Four days later the same elements are read as deliberately unreadable — a set that tells you nothing reliable about the person in it, which is the point being made:

“it's always been interesting to speculate where Richard Hart lives or how Richard Hart lives. You look at the candelabra and you look at the backdrop and the throne and the crystal and the candles. And part of you is totally impressed. The other part of me is like, I don't know, I could set up a corner of my basement to look like that. I mean, it would cost a little bit of money, but he could be in a basement somewhere, or he could be in the Taj Mahal … I don't know anything about the guy personally and just what he showed me online.”

Thomas HuntA− Bitcoin Talk Show #53 · 2018-02-09 · grounds: the speaker put the question to the guest, the guest answered at length, and this turn resumes the running order

Three years on, the same cabinet, with an observation that it is never actually shown off:

“It is candle law. It's like Dracula set, Leveracci colors. Yes, he's very cool. I like his crystals. He's got these crazy crystal cabinet in the background. He doesn't really show them. And I don't know anything about rocks, but I assume they're valuable.”

Thomas HuntA− Happy Birthday Bitcoin #LIVE · 2021-01-03 · grounds: the speaker is reading viewer chat and ends the turn by handing off to a guest · “candle law” and “Leveracci” are transcriber garbles for candelabra and Liberace

The production choice, which is the sharpest observation in the archive

One thing in the record is not about objects at all, and it is the most substantive point anyone on these shows made about his broadcasting: the asymmetry between how he framed himself and how he framed his guests. It comes from the Scammys panel, where attribution fails — a large conference roundtable with no roll-call — so it sits at tier C:

“another thing that's great about how he communicates is when he has people on his show. And he's in this beautiful HD crystal background, giant throne, fancy dress. He's perfectly put together. Then he puts the other people in this little box in the corner in low definition. And they're this little square. And he can mute them or he can turn them off or he can make them small.”

Unattributed — conference panel, no roster sourceC WCN LIVE from Unconfiscatable · 2020-02-23 · the same passage was republished in the Unconfiscatable audio series on 2020-08-12

That is a claim about the broadcast, not about the man, and it is the one claim in this section a reader could verify from the recordings themselves. It is also the only description in the archive of how his own channel looked, as opposed to how he appeared as somebody else's guest.

Across the HEX line

His eleven appearances run 2017–2020; HEX launched at the end of 2019. The archive's description of his presentation does change across that line — but it is worth being careful about what changed. In 2018 the crystals and the candelabra are “amazing” and the reaction is curiosity; from 2023 the same objects are catalogued as evidence:

“he always had his cabinet full of crystals and his candelabras and his fine clothing and something when he was talking about Bitcoin on these shows in these channels, but it got much, much worse with Hex as I've seen from the documentaries and other things that are happening now on Twitter.”

Thomas HuntA− The Bitcoin Group #369 · 2023-08-08 · grounds: the speaker refers to his own collectibles project and ends the turn by handing off to Dan Eve

Two further descriptions sit on the later side of the line and should be read for what they actually are. The “track suits, gold chains, cars” inventory is Thomas reading out an article's summary, not reporting his own observation:

“a Bizarro crypto world where Richard Hart is akin to Satoshi Nakamoto despite apparently showing his backside publicly and showing off track suits, gold chains, cars, and twerking. He has vulgar displays of wealth.”

Thomas Hunt, summarising an articleA The Bitcoin Group #361 · 2023-06-03 · the outlet is not named on air

And the most-quoted line about his clothing is a panellist explaining a personal aversion rather than describing a garment:

“just the sight of Richard Hart carrying out bags of Gucci, I just think, ah, no, I'm not gonna invest in anything that guy does.”

Joshua ScigalaA The Bitcoin Group #436 · 2024-12-28 · cue: “Josh Chagall, what do you think…”

By 2025 the host's reading has settled into a theory of the whole thing as stagecraft — and, notably, one that credits the craft:

“he's got the backdrop with the Candelabra and the case full of crystals and the throne and the, I don't know, smoking jacket or whatever … we see it as like a theatrical thing, like a movie, like a set-jesting. Like, yeah, he could be in the basement in Detroit. grandma's apartment and he's got a candle, a zebra and he's got a throne and he got him at a garage sale down the street and he's great at sect, sect decoration and lighting and whatever.”

Thomas HuntA Richard Heart's Wealth — Genius or Just Fronting (Short) · 2025-05-05, cut from TBG #452 · 2025-04-26 · “set-jesting” and “sect decoration” are transcriber garbles for set dressing and set decoration

So: did the presentation change across the HEX line, or did the reading of it change? The archive records a change in description with certainty, and contains one host asserting a change in the thing described — “it got much, much worse with Hex”. Without frames this report cannot adjudicate between those, and it does not. What it can say is that the descriptions on both sides of the line list the same objects, and that the words around them moved from curiosity to catalogue while the inventory stayed put.

His own account, which is the best evidence in this section

The strongest material is not anyone's description of him. It is Heart, on his last WCN appearance, explaining unprompted where the costume came from — a self-help channel that had not found an audience:

“so I made a video, top hat, leopard jacket, because my first videos were all about self-help, right? … And I said, all right, well, I just want to make the results and make videos on self-help stuff and write this book and shit. And you know, it didn't take off. It didn't go viral. It was just like, oh, fuck, well, you know, can I have to try and do shit differently?”

Richard HeartA Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart · 2020-05-04

That is the section's actual finding, and it is his own: the top hat and the leopard jacket were an adjustment after the content underneath them failed to travel. It fits what he says elsewhere in the same conversation about a media economy in which “clickbait is rewarded” and “extreme statements with no gray area are rewarded” — and it makes the candelabra a production decision rather than a window into a lifestyle, which is exactly what the 2018 and 2025 descriptions independently guessed. On the one occasion the archive lets him speak about his own presentation he describes it as strategy, and he is the only person in nine years of this material to explain it rather than inventory it.

On the timing of this section

This section was compiled on the same day he was reported detained, which is a bad day to publish observations about a man's clothes. It is kept because the material is dated, checkable broadcast evidence about choices a public figure made on camera while promoting a project, and because that was true last week and will be true next year. Two things were deliberately left out as failing that test: a 2018 passage characterising the feel of his set in horror-film terms, which is atmosphere rather than observation; and the detail of a 2018 production decision involving a third party, which could not be described without describing someone who is not the subject of this report. Both are in the archive and neither is quoted here.

08The public record, which is not this archive

Read this before the section

Everything above comes from the transcripts, except the clearly marked film context. Everything in this section comes from outside them — court outcomes, Interpol's public notice search, and press reporting — and is marked as such because the shows got parts of it wrong on air, and because one matter is moving today. Nothing here is a finding of wrongdoing, and the four words detained, arrested, charged and convicted are not used interchangeably. Where a matter is unresolved it is described as unresolved, and where outlets conflict the conflict is named.

The SEC case: dismissed, and not on the merits

The SEC sued in July 2023, naming Richard Schueler, who goes by Richard Heart, over HEX, PulseChain and PulseX. On 28 February 2025 Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the Eastern District of New York dismissed the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding the SEC had not shown his online statements were specifically targeted at US investors. The dismissal left the SEC free to amend its complaint; in April 2025 it told the court it would not, and the case closed — reported by CoinDesk on 23 April 2025, quoting Heart's lawyer calling it “a complete victory”. No appeal has been reported.

On air on 2025-04-26 Thomas Hunt, reading the issue, summarised this as HEX having been “declared fully legal” (tier A — it is the host's scripted news read). That is not what the ruling did. A dismissal on personal-jurisdiction grounds decides where a case may be heard, not whether the conduct alleged was lawful; the court made no finding about whether the tokens were securities. One panellist that night read it the same way the host did, and one read it as a jurisdictional point. The archive contains both readings, and the report notes that the host's version overstates the holding.

“Now, in terms of him winning the SEC, I think it was a massive gut punch to the SEC, which is great because their whole case was grounded in a total overreach. … Whether hexas are scam or not, I don't know it because I haven't looked into it.”

Joshua ScigalaA TBG #452 · 2025-04-26 · cue: “Josh Shagall, what do you think? Trump trying to pardon Roger perhaps or Richard Hart going off Scott free?”

The Finnish matter, and the red notice — the documented part

Interpol issued a red notice for him in 2024 at Finland's request. Extracts of such notices are published on Interpol's public Red Notices search; this compilation could not read the entry for him, and what the notice says is therefore carried here at one remove. Decrypt, which cites the notice directly (at the fragment #2024-65212), reports that it lists a single charge: aggravated tax fraud — Decrypt's reading of the document, not this report's. See the correction below. Finnish authorities have separately sought him over an alleged assault, which per Decrypt is not on the notice — also Decrypt's reading, and a distinction worth holding, because several accounts run the two together. Protos, reporting on the Finnish investigation, has put the suspected unpaid tax in the hundreds of millions of euros; press accounts give the period under investigation as June 2020 to April 2024.

A correction to an earlier draft of this page

An earlier version called the red notice “the one part of the story that does not rest on anyone's reporting”. On checking, that was too strong. Interpol's notice search is a client-rendered page: fetched as plain HTML during this compilation it returned no results and a circulating-notice count of zero, so this compilation could not read the notice itself, and the #2024-65212 fragment is not a server-rendered page that can be linked to directly. The search interface resolves and is linked above; the single-charge detail therefore rests on Decrypt's reading of the notice, not on a reading of the primary document here. Whether the notice is still in circulation today is also not established — an empty result from an unreadable search page is not evidence of withdrawal.

What a red notice is: a request to police worldwide to locate a person and provisionally arrest them pending extradition or similar action. It is not an international arrest warrant, and it is not in itself a charge, a finding or a conviction. On the Finnish matter, no court has convicted him, and no indictment or trial date has been reported; the status of any formal charge is not established here either way.

14 October 2026: what is reported, and by whom

This is today. It is the reason the page carries a compilation timestamp, and the reason this subsection is built as attribution rather than narrative.

Daily Sabah, citing the Turkish news agency IHA, reported on Wednesday 14 October 2026 that he was detained in Istanbul, together with his wife, on Wednesday morning, in an operation by Istanbul police and Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT), who had monitored an address in the city's Beşiktaş district beforehand. Decrypt carried that report at 14:03 UTC. Protos, at 15:36 UTC, citing the Turkish outlet Haberler, added that the raid was coordinated by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office Financial Crimes Division, Interpol and MİT, and that the underlying investigation concerned an alleged Istanbul-based international network said to have held offices in the US, Finland and Spain. Outlets give his legal name as Richard James Schueler.

No authority has confirmed any of this on the record. As of compilation there is no published statement from Turkish prosecutors, from Finnish police, or from Interpol about the detention. Every account traces back to Turkish media citing police and intelligence sources. One further data point exists, and it is weak and also media-sourced: Protos reports that he is no longer listed on Europol's most-wanted site, and attributes the removal to the reported detention.

Extradition is the open question. Decrypt, 14 October: it was not immediately clear whether Finnish authorities have requested his extradition from Turkey. No formal request has been made public.

Where the accounts conflict — named, not smoothed

What the notice is for. Decrypt, reading the notice, says it lists aggravated tax fraud and nothing else. Daily Sabah described the notice as relating to high-value cryptocurrency fraud. Those are not the same thing, and neither account was checked against the notice here — though Decrypt's is the one that cites the document.

What was seized. Four accounts, four tallies. IHA, via Decrypt: around a dozen mobile phones, several laptops, graphics cards, rifles, pistols, two drones, gold bracelets and a large amount of cash in various currencies, unquantified. Haberler, via Protos: $4 million in cash, 64 luxury watches, guns, computers and crypto mining equipment. Euronews Türkçe, via Protos: three handguns, four rifles, seven magazines, 1,360 rounds of ammunition and a dagger. A Turkish journalist's post on X the same day: $600,000, 24 watches and 20 gold items. The cash figure differs by a factor of nearly seven and the watch count by nearly three. No single figure here is established, which is why the report cites the range rather than picking one.

Detained or arrested. Most outlets say detained; Protos and others say arrested. Both are defensible — the action a red notice requests is a provisional arrest — but no charge in Turkey has been reported, and the report uses detained.

What today does and does not establish

Established: Interpol issued a red notice for him in 2024 at Finland's request. Reported, not read here: that the notice lists a single charge of aggravated tax fraud — that is Decrypt's reading of the document, which this compilation could not open. Reported, not officially confirmed: that he was detained in Istanbul on 14 October 2026. Not established: that any charge has been laid in Turkey; that Finland has requested extradition; what was seized; and anything at all about guilt. He has not been charged and not been convicted in the Finnish matter, and the US case against him was dismissed. Today is a reported detention in an unresolved matter.

This remains the most perishable material on the page, and it is the reason the document carries a compilation date rather than a publication date.

Separately reported, and not part of the notice

Two further allegations circulate and should not be folded into the above. Protos has reported suspicions that roughly $500 million in ETH was moved through a crypto mixer in an attempt at obfuscation; that is Protos's own reporting, is not part of the red notice, and is not adopted here. And the SEC's 2023 complaint alleged misappropriation of at least $12 million of investor funds on luxury goods including a 555-carat black diamond — allegations in a complaint that was dismissed without any finding on them, which is the only status they have.

The sequence this belongs to

Three questions, against the nine years above. The shows argued about what HEX was from 2019 to 2025 and never agreed. The SEC case ended on where it could be heard, not on what HEX was. Today's events are reported to relate to the Finnish red notice and so to an unpaid-tax allegation, a third question again — though no authority has confirmed the legal basis of the operation, and the accounts of it differ on that very point. None of the three has been answered; today is the next entry in the sequence, not a verdict on it.

One on-air claim that should not be carried forward

On 2026-04-18 Thomas Hunt gave a status update on the red notice, reading a viewer's chat message and then a summary he attributed to “Google AI”, which included the assertion that he “remains a fugitive” from European authorities. He sourced it plainly and did not claim it as reporting. It is recorded here as what was said on air on that date and nothing more; an AI summary read aloud is not a source for the legal status of a named person, and this report does not adopt it.

Today complicates that neatly rather than vindicating it. The same on-air summary also said he had been removed from the EU most-wanted list, and Protos reports today that he is not listed there now — but it attributes that removal to the reported detention, not to anything in April 2026. So the April claim remains unverified on its own terms, which is the point: a source that cannot be checked does not become reliable because part of it later looks right.

09What the archive settles, and what it does not

It settles the shape of the relationship. He was not a passing guest: eleven appearances over three years, a billed panel seat, a slot in the podcast lineup, and a standing invitation that survived the arguments. It settles that the network's turn against him in February 2018 was about a reversal on Bitcoin and a forthcoming token sale, not about anything the shows claimed to know about his past — the host's own narration of the 1990s material is hedged every time he touches it. It settles that he brought his own securities-law disclaimer to both HEX conversations, unprompted, and that he stated large downside alongside large returns in the same breath. And it settles that several of the people who were hardest on the project said, on the record, that they liked the man.

It does not settle whether HEX was what its critics said it was. The shows argued about that for six years and never agreed; this report does not resolve it for them, and the SEC case did not resolve it either. It does not settle anything about the 1990s. It does not settle the Finnish allegations, which remain allegations — not before today's events and not after them. And it does not settle who said five of the forty-eight quoted lines above — the Scammys segment in particular is a large unlabelled panel with no roster at all, and those voices are left unnamed rather than guessed. It also does not settle whether his presentation itself changed across the HEX launch or only the way it was described: that needs the frames section 07 could not produce.

The last word in the archive is from 2026-09-12, and it is a small, odd coda: a news read in which he turns up as one voice among many criticising Blockstream after the Liquid incident. The read summarises his public comments rather than anything said on the show, and the transcriber garbles the name he is responding to, so none of it is quoted here. Nine years after “Richard, go ahead”, he is still in the show's running order — as a name in the copy rather than a voice on the line.

10Sources

Two kinds of material went into this report and they are kept apart here, because the separation is the report's spine. Archive is the local transcript corpus and the host's own records — everything in sections 02 to 05, the second half of 06, and 07. Outside reporting is press and primary documents — the film context in 06 and all of 08. Nothing from the second pile is used to support a claim about what was said on air, and nothing from the first is used to support a claim about law or current events.

Link status. Every link below was handled under two rules: no URL was constructed or guessed, and dead links are marked dead rather than removed or redirected.

verified fetched during this compilation and resolved. cited the URL is the one a source article itself hyperlinks, carried over unchanged but not independently fetched here. dead checked and found unavailable; the link is kept so a reader can see what is missing. local only no public URL exists; the material is in the local archive and the public cannot currently reach it.

Archive — episodes quoted in this report

Bitcoin News #44 — State of UASF, Historic Delaware Regulation, WCN, 2017-07-09 verified
Bitcoin News #45 — BIP91 Lock In, Parity Hack, Crypto over Gold?, WCN, 2017-07-23 verified
Bitcoin Cash ($BCH or $BCC) Trading Frenzy is ON — Live Look, WCN, 2017-08-02 verified
Bitcoin News #46 — BCH Launch, New ATHs, $1.6 Billion in ICOs, WCN, 2017-08-06 verified
Segregated Witness Lock-In (LIVE) — Major Bitcoin Milestone, WCN, 2017-08-08 verified
The Bitcoin Group #154, 2017-08-11 verified
Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-17) — Australia Regulates, WCN verified
Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-20) — Could Bitcoin reach $619,047 in 10 years?, WCN verified
Ver vs Heart Debate: World Crypto Network Commentary, WCN, 2017-08-25 verified
One-on-One w/Andy Hoffman — Episode 18 — Special Guest Richard Heart, WCN, 2018-01-11 verified
WCN #LIVE — Special Comments on the Bitcoin Price Drop, 2018-02-05 verified
Bitcoin Talk Show #53, WCN, 2018-02-09 verified
Bitcoin Freedom, Ugly Old Goat, 2019-04-14 dead — the “honest corrupt” quotes in section 04 come from this programme, which is no longer available on YouTube. The transcript is in the local archive; the public cannot currently reach the recording.
Scam Warning — Don't Do This With Kestutis, Ugly Old Goat, 2019-11-30 verified
The Bitcoin Group #206, 2019-12-13 verified
The Bitcoin Group #208 — HexExit, 2020-01-10 verified
World Crypto Network #LIVE from Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference, 2020-02-23 verified
Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart, WCN, 2020-05-04 verified
2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party #LIVE, WCN, 2020-05-12 verified
2020 Bitcoin Halving (Halvening) — WCN — Part 13 — Richard Heart, 2020-07-22 verified — the republished cut of the 2020-05-12 stream
Happy Birthday Bitcoin #LIVE, WCN, 2021-01-03 verified
The Bitcoin Group #361 — Pulsechain, 2023-06-03 verified
The Bitcoin Group #369, 2023-08-08 verified
The Bitcoin Group #391, 2024-01-13 verified — the documentary review
The Bitcoin Group #393, 2024-01-27 verified
Today in #Bitcoin History with Adam Meister (BitcoinMeister), WCN, 2024-09-20 verified
The Bitcoin Group #436, 2024-12-28 verified — also uploaded to the Mad Bitcoins channel as ZMFxdMgTanI cited
The Bitcoin Group #440, 2025-02-01 verified
The Bitcoin Group #452, 2025-04-26 verified
Richard Heart's HEX — Genius or Scam — Crypto Court Cases (Short), WCN, 2025-05-05 verified
Richard Heart's Wealth — Genius or Just Fronting (Short), WCN, 2025-05-05 verified
The Bitcoin Group #491, 2026-04-18 verified
The Bitcoin Group #504, 2026-09-12 verified

Archive — non-episode material

brain.db, the local full-text store: 805 items matching the name and project variants, of which 184 are tweets from the host's own Twitter/X archive. local only
The local episode transcript corpus: 6,529 Whisper transcripts, WCN · Mad Bitcoins · The Bitcoin Group · Ugly Old Goat, 2013-04-21 to 2026-09-25. These are the source of every quotation in sections 02–06. local only
The host's media-library record for The Highest of Stakes, catalogued 2024-01-10 with a watch record the same day, studio field reading Muse Storytelling. This is the evidence for the three-day gap in section 06. local only
The host's tweet archive contains no tweet about the documentary. A negative finding, recorded because it is part of the section 06 argument. local only

Outside reporting — the documentary

“Muse Storytelling Announces The Highest of Stakes to Premiere at Regal”, PR Newswire, 11 July 2023 — the premiere date and the Regal release verified
Sander Lutz, “Mired in Controversy, A Film Gives HEX and Richard Heart the Hollywood Treatment”, Decrypt, 15 August 2023 — the directors, the budget and crypto donations, Heart's participation, Moreau's “50/50” remark verified

Outside reporting — the legal record and 14 October 2026

Interpol, View Red Notices — the public notice search, and the source of the definition of a red notice quoted in section 08 verified. The individual notice could not be read: see the correction in section 08.
“HEX Crypto Founder Richard Heart” red notice report, Decrypt, 2024 — the notice's issuance cited
“SEC Charges HEX Founder Richard Heart With $1B Unregistered Securities Offering”, Decrypt, July 2023 — the complaint and the $12 million misappropriation allegation cited
“Federal Judge Dismisses SEC Case Against Richard Heart, Citing Lack of Jurisdiction”, CoinDesk, 28 February 2025 cited
“SEC Walks Away From Case Against HEX Founder Richard Heart, Attorney Says”, CoinDesk, 23 April 2025 cited
“Hex Founder Richard Heart Detained in Istanbul on Interpol Red Notice: Report”, Decrypt, 14 October 2026, 14:03 UTC — the detention, the IHA seizure list, the single-charge reading of the notice, and the unresolved extradition question verified
“Richard Heart arrested in Turkey almost 2 years after Interpol red notice”, Protos, 14 October 2026, 15:36 UTC — the prosecutor/Interpol/MİT coordination, the alleged network, the Europol delisting verified
“Türkiye nabs Interpol-wanted crypto fugitive in Istanbul operation”, Daily Sabah, 14 October 2026 — the originating report, citing IHA cited
Haberler report, 14 October 2026 — the $4 million / 64 watches tally cited
Euronews Türkçe report, 14 October 2026 — the firearms and ammunition tally cited
“Finland wants to detain Richard Heart, alleges millions in unpaid taxes”, Protos — the scale of the suspected unpaid tax cited
“Richard Heart allegedly funnels $500M in ETH through Tornado Cash”, Protos — the mixer allegation, which this report does not adopt cited
Europol, EU Most Wanted entry — linked because Protos cites it; the site is client-rendered and was not read here cited

Appendix — every programme in the archive that mentions him

All 126 programmes, with the mention count from the de-duplicated scan. Links are built from the video IDs recorded in the archive itself, not constructed from titles. The 28 marked ✓ were fetched and confirmed during this compilation, being the ones this report quotes or cites; the one marked unavailable was checked and found dead; the remainder carry the archive's recorded ID and were not individually checked, which is stated here rather than implied.

watch ✓ verified during compilation · watch archive ID, not individually checked · unavailable checked and dead

Date	Programme	Mentions	Link
2017-07-09	Bitcoin News #44 - State of UASF, Historic Delaware Regulation	1	watch ✓
2017-07-21	#BIP91 Lock-in Party! at the World Crypto Network	2	watch
2017-07-23	Bitcoin News #45 - BIP91 Lock In, Parity Hack, Crypto over Gold?	1	watch ✓
2017-08-01	Bitcoin Cash (aka Fake Bitcoin ) Genesis Block Epic Fail Watch	1	watch
2017-08-02	Bitcoin Cash ($BCH or $BCC) Trading Frenzy is ON - Live Look	6	watch ✓
2017-08-03	Something Big Going down in BCash (Bitcoiners Watch in Suspense)	1	watch
2017-08-03	Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-03) - WannaCry Cashes Out - Bcash Falls	2	watch
2017-08-05	Bitcoin Breaks ALL TIME HIGH - Live Look	2	watch
2017-08-06	Bitcoin News #46 - BCH Launch, New ATHs, $1.6 Billion in ICOs	2	watch ✓
2017-08-06	Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-06) - Don’t call Bcash Bcash - Crypto Castle - Spoofy & Streisand Effect	1	watch
2017-08-08	Segregated Witness Lock-In (LIVE) - Major Bitcoin Milestone (Aug 8, 2017)	5	watch ✓
2017-08-11	The Bitcoin Group #154 - Bitcoin $3500 - SegWit Lock-In - North Korea - Game of Thrones	10	watch ✓
2017-08-14	Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-14) - Bitcoin $4250 - Where is the top? - Blockstream Satellites?	1	watch
2017-08-17	Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-17) - Australia Regulates - Bitcoin $4500+ - Newspapers Advocate Bitcoin	1	watch ✓
2017-08-20	Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-20) - Could Bitcoin reach $619,047 in 10 years?	4	watch ✓
2017-08-24	Bitcoin Scaling - Segwit Activation Live Look	3	watch
2017-08-25	Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-25) - Lightning Closer - WhopperCoin - Heart v. Ver Debate	1	watch
2017-08-25	Ver vs Heart Debate: World Crypto Network Commentary	3	watch ✓
2017-08-27	Bitcoin News #47 - Digital Gold, Bcash	1	watch
2017-08-30	Today in Bitcoin (2017-08-30) - CFPB: Coinbase Complaints Skyrocket - Bitcoin Record Highs	1	watch
2017-09-01	The Bitcoin Group #157 - SEC again - Bitcoin $5000 - Lightning vs. Nothing - F2Pool joins #NO2X	2	watch
2017-09-01	Today in Bitcoin (2017-09-01) - Bitcoin $4800, New All Time High - F2Pool Defects from 2X Hardfork	1	watch
2017-10-20	Bitcoin Scaling - Is the B-Gold Fork Relevant?	1	watch
2017-11-27	Today in Bitcoin News Podcast (2017-11-27) - Bitcoin $9000 - Bitcoin Cash vs. Bcash	1	watch
2017-11-28	Bitcoin $10,000 LIVE	3	watch
2017-12-15	The Bitcoin Group #168 - CME Futures - NiceHash Hacked - Recent Mania - Inactive Coins	2	watch
2017-12-17	The Bitcoin News Show #63 - Decentralized Exchanges	1	watch
2017-12-21	Today in Bitcoin News Podcast (2017-12-21) - Coinbase Insider Trading? - $1M Bitcoin Bet	1	watch
2018-01-10	Today in Bitcoin (2018-01-10) - Kodak ICO - Coinbase Petition 7,000 - Theory of the Leisure Class	2	watch
2018-01-11	One-on-One w/Andy Hoffman - Episode 18 - Special Guest Richard Heart	5	watch ✓
2018-01-11	Today in Bitcoin (2018-01-11) - South Korea Bitcoin FUD - Coinbase Petition 7,500 - Github Down!	1	watch
2018-01-12	Today in Bitcoin (2018-01-12) - Is Coinbase spamming the Bitcoin network?	1	watch
2018-01-18	Bitcoin Talk Show #45 - Thursday January 18, 2018 #LIVE	1	watch
2018-01-18	One-on-One w/Andy Hoffman - Episode 19 - Special Guest Ansel Lindner	2	watch
2018-01-21	WCN Recap (Jan 7 - 19, 2018) #LIVE Chat!	10	watch
2018-01-24	Today in Bitcoin (2018-01-24) - Bitcoin Black Hole - 50 Cent’s 700 Bitcoin - The Power of Hodl	1	watch
2018-02-02	The Bitcoin Group #173 - $8,500 - Tether - Square Cash - Samsung Mining - Bitcoin Puzzle	2	watch
2018-02-04	Special Crypto Audioblog #5, w/Andy Hoffman - The Psychology of Bitcoin Holders and Traders Today	1	watch
2018-02-05	WCN #LIVE - Special Comments on the Bitcoin Price Drop	25	watch ✓
2018-02-06	Andy Hoffman & Adam Meister - All-Out Bitcoin Optimism Fest!	1	watch
2018-02-06	Bitcoin Talk Show #51 - Tuesday February 6, 2018 #LIVE - SKYPE WorldCryptoNetwork	4	watch
2018-02-08	Bitcoin Talk Show #52 - Wednesday February 7, 2018 #LIVE - SKYPE WorldCryptoNetwork	6	watch
2018-02-09	Bitcoin Talk Show #53 - Thursday February 8, 2018 #LIVE - SKYPE WorldCryptoNetwork	13	watch
2018-02-09	The Bitcoin Group #174 - Senate Hearing - Dow Drops - Coinbase Segwit - Bitcoin meets InfoWars	2	watch
2018-02-09	Today in Bitcoin (2018-02-09) - Wrench Attack, A duplicate's duplicate, Stuck in a Tangle with you	1	watch
2018-02-18	Andy Hoffman & Adam Meister - SPECIAL, UBER-BULLISH BITCOIN UPDATE!	2	watch
2018-02-25	The Bitcoin News Show #70 - State Sponsored Crypto, Bulletproofs, Low Fees	1	watch
2018-03-02	Today in Bitcoin (2018-03-02) - $1 Trillion Money Manager and $11,000 Bitcoin	1	watch
2018-03-03	One-on-One w/Andy Hoffman - Episode 27 - Special Guest Kenn Bosak	2	watch
2018-03-04	The Bitcoin News Show #71 - Poloniex Aquired by Circle, ASICBoost Patent, AMD Needs GPU Miners	1	watch
2018-06-14	$6419 - Bitcoin Talk Show -- Your Calls, Answered #LIVE (Call now: Skype WorldCryptoNetwork)	1	watch
2018-06-20	Goldman Sachs CEO: Bitcoin is not for me - Bitcoin Talk Show (Skype WorldCryptoNetwork)	2	watch
2018-06-21	"Awoken by being at the source" - Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE (Skype WorldCryptoNetwork)	1	watch
2018-07-06	Bitcoin Talk Show - Afternoon Edition -- Your Calls, Answered #LIVE (Skype WorldCryptoNetwork)	2	watch
2018-07-11	$6371 - Bitcoin Talk Show -- Your Calls, Answered #LIVE (Skype WorldCryptoNetwork)	1	watch
2018-08-02	$7,554 Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE -- Your Calls, Answered (Skype WorldCryptoNetwork)	9	watch
2018-08-02	Celebrating Bitcoin Independence Day - #UASF - One Year Later	1	watch
2018-08-11	Saturday Morning Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE (Skype WorldCryptoNetwork, (518) 600-1949)	2	watch
2018-08-12	Sunday Morning Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE (Call 518-600-1949, Skype WorldCryptoNetwork)	2	watch
2018-08-13	Bitcoin $6371, Bitmain IPO, Your Calls - Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE (Call 518-600-1949)	2	watch
2018-08-23	Thursday Morning Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE - Bitcoin News & Price with absolutely no flipping	5	watch
2018-08-27	Monday Morning Bitcoin Talk Show with your Calls #LIVE	1	watch
2018-08-28	Hello $7,000 - Tuesday Morning Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE with News Price Opinion and your Calls!	1	watch
2018-09-05	Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE (Sep 5, 2018) - Bitcoin News Talk Price Opinion with your Calls	4	watch
2018-09-08	Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE (Sep 8, 2018) - Bitcoin News Talk Price Opinion with your Calls	1	watch
2018-11-20	Revisiting the UASF with Juan Galt ~ Open Source Everything	1	watch
2018-12-19	Bitcoin Rallies 10%, Mining in Iran, Bitcoin hits bottom? - Is Chia a Bitcoin Killer? - BTS #LIVE	1	watch
2019-01-07	Bitcoin is only about Money - Maximalism gets Strange - Litecoin Founder gets Dramatic!	1	watch
2019-04-14	Bitcoin Freedom	10	unavailable — link recorded
2019-04-18	Ugly Live!	1	watch
2019-05-12	Bitcoin Saturday Night Women of Bitcoiners	1	watch
2019-05-27	Bitcoin Talk Show #LIVE (May 27, 2019) - Crypto News Talk Price Opinion with your Calls	1	watch
2019-07-18	Ask Ugly Anything!!	2	watch
2019-11-30	Scam Warning - Don't Do This With Kestutis	5	watch ✓
2019-12-13	The Bitcoin Group #206 - Bitclub Mining Ponzi? - China Gold Backed Crypto - Bitcoin Hex - NFL Bitcoi	8	watch ✓
2020-01-10	The Bitcoin Group #208 - Bitcoin Price 2020 - Taproot/Schnorr - HexExit - Elon Musk’s Favorite	9	watch ✓
2020-02-15	Ask Ugly Anything Open To Public	1	watch
2020-02-18	Tyler Jenks Bitcoin Standard Bearer. With @JuanSGalt and Joe Saz and Tone Vays	3	watch
2020-02-23	World Crypto Network #LIVE from Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference - Las Vegas (2020-02-22)	11	watch ✓
2020-02-27	THE SCAMMYS 2020 - UNCONFISCATABLE	4	watch
2020-03-01	Bitcoin Saturday Night Afterparty #001 - #LIVE with your calls & chat!	2	watch
2020-03-03	THS #001 - Thomas Hunt Show, CoronaVirus, Trace & MimbleWimble - Picard, Primary, Atypical	2	watch
2020-03-06	The Bitcoin Dominance Special	6	watch
2020-03-12	Bitcoin Down 23% #LIVE CALL-IN - DOW Down 8% - Don’t Panic. Like & Subscribe - THS #007	1	watch
2020-04-10	Friday Morning Talk Show #LIVE (2020-04-09) Coronavirus, Bitcoin News & More	1	watch
2020-04-14	Bitcoin Banking With Simon Dixon	1	watch
2020-04-30	Adam Meister and Thomas Hunt reminisce about World Crypto Network 2016	4	watch
2020-05-04	Ben Arc chats to: Richard Heart	2	watch ✓
2020-05-12	2020 Bitcoin Halvening Party #LIVE (Bitcoin Halving)	10	watch ✓
2020-07-21	2020 Bitcoin Halving (Halvening) - WCN - Part 12 - The Burning of Wall Street	2	watch
2020-07-22	2020 Bitcoin Halving (Halvening) - WCN - Part 13 - Richard Heart	5	watch ✓
2020-08-04	Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference - Part 8 - Adam Meister joins	3	watch
2020-08-07	Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference - Part 11 - Peter Todd joins	1	watch
2020-08-12	Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference - Part 14 - VESA art discussion	2	watch
2020-08-20	Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference - Part 20 - Fun with Crypto Lawyers	3	watch
2020-08-27	Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference - Part 25 - Adam Back joins	2	watch
2020-09-09	DEFI: "Decentralized Finance" or A New Ponzi? W/ Bruce Fenton & Chris Blec	2	watch
2020-09-30	Tone Vays and Ugly Old Goat Heart to Heart	3	watch
2020-10-09	#THS-095 - News Politcs & Mad Minecraft - The Chatsworth Cascade #2 (Oct 9, 2020)	1	watch
2020-11-30	Bitcoin sets New All Time High (Nov. 30, 2020) - $19,850 #LIVE	2	watch
2021-01-03	Happy Birthday Bitcoin #LIVE - Call-in and join the party	4	watch
2021-02-05	The Bitcoin Group #247 - Saylor Seminar Sells Out - Paypal - $38,000+? - Carbon Footprint	1	watch
2021-03-09	Twitter Spaces #LIVE Chat (Mar 8, 2021) #Bitcoin and more, Join us & Share!	1	watch
2021-05-26	OPEN TO PUBLIC: Midweek Happy Hour - Tequila and Schnapps w/ UOG	3	watch
2023-06-03	The Bitcoin Group #361 - Sluggish - Google Cloud Lightning - Pulsechain - FTX - Regulation	8	watch ✓
2023-08-08	The Bitcoin Group #369 - Hackers Exposed - Miner Halvening - Stop Trading - Coinbase Lightning	3	watch
2024-01-06	The Bitcoin Group #390 - ETF Eve - Texas Power - Black Bitcoin Billionaires - Bitconned	1	watch
2024-01-13	The Bitcoin Group #391 - ETF Approved! - Too Small - The Hack - Gensler Cracks	2	watch ✓
2024-01-27	The Bitcoin Group #393 - Godcoins - DAO Danger! - Mainstream - Mt. Gox Pays	2	watch ✓
2024-02-02	World Crypto Network - 10th Anniversary - Feb 1, 2014 - Feb 1, 2024 #Bitcoin	3	watch
2024-02-03	The Bitcoin Group #394 - $2.1B Seized! - China Buys - Miners Loud - Tesla Missed - Up Up Up	3	watch
2024-03-16	The Bitcoin Group #400 - Not Satoshi - $1M? - El Vault - Debt Down - Cool off?	1	watch
2024-09-20	Today in #Bitcoin History with Adam Meister (BitcoinMeister)	6	watch ✓
2024-10-03	The Dark Side of Wealth Obsession Unmasking Crypto Scammers	1	watch
2024-12-28	The Bitcoin Group #436 - Investor Appetite - Companies Embrace - Foreign Hackers - NFTs Return?	9	watch
2024-12-28	The Bitcoin Group #436 - Investor Appetite - Companies Embrace - Foreign Hackers - NFTs Return?	9	watch ✓
2025-02-01	The Bitcoin Group #440 - Pardon Ver? - Dogecoin ETF - Hacker Docu - $ROSS Loss	1	watch
2025-04-26	The Bitcoin Group #452 - 21 Again - $100K? - Crypto Pardons - Memecoin Dinner	11	watch ✓
2025-05-05	Richard Heart's HEX Genius or Scam Crypto Court Cases	3	watch ✓
2025-05-05	Richard Heart's Wealth Genius or Just Fronting	1	watch ✓
2025-05-06	Roger Ver's $600K Trump Lobby Bitcoin Jesus Seeks Pardon	3	watch
2026-04-18	The Bitcoin Group #490 - Adam Back Satoshi? - Hormuz Tax - Quantum Safe - Price Up	3	watch
2026-04-18	The Bitcoin Group #491 - Bitcoin Climbing - Satoshi Coins - WLF Trapdoor - Stable Bill	3	watch ✓
2026-08-29	The Bitcoin Group #502 - $1 Millon Dollar Bitcoin? - Ecash Fork - Clarity Act - Saylorcoin	1	watch
2026-09-12	The Bitcoin Group #504 - Liquid Hacked! - Ferris Bueller - Laptop Coin - Q-Day	2	watch ✓
2026-09-15	Bitcoin Heist White Hats Steal 4,000 BTC	2	watch