Warren Buffett says he wouldn't pay $25 for all the bitcoin in the world
Updated: May 30, 2022
Warren Edward Buffett is a USA investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway with Asset values of $113 Mlrd. Worldwide.
Warren Buffett says he wouldn't pay $25 for all the bitcoin in the world — and Charlie Munger blasts the crypto as 'stupid' and 'evil'. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger opened fire at bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency industry during Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting on Saturday, 30th April 2022.
"If you told me you owned all the bitcoin in the world, and you offered it to me for $25, I wouldn't take it," Buffett said. "What would I do with it?" In contrast, Buffett said he would buy a portion of the country's farmland, or some of the nation's flats. He reiterated his view that bitcoin isn't worth anything because it doesn't produce anything, and holders rely on somebody else who is willing to pay more for it than they did.
"It's got a magic to it, but people have attached magic to lots of things," Buffett added, comparing bitcoin to an insurance company pitching itself as a technological marvel. Munger, Buffett's long-time business partner, spoke even more harshly about the most valuable cryptocurrency. "In my life, I try and avoid things that are stupid, evil, and make me look bad in comparison to someone else," Munger said. "Bitcoin does all three." The billionaire investor explained that holding bitcoin is "stupid" because he expects it to be worth zero dollars in time, "evil" because it undermines the integrity and stability of the US financial system, and makes the US "look foolish" because China's ruling party was smart enough to ban it.
Buffett has previously dismissed bitcoin as "rat poison squared," and described it as a worthless delusion. Meanwhile, Munger has compared the crypto to venereal disease, called for the US to ban it, and bemoaned the massive speculation underlying its price gains in recent years.
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