Warren Buffett Has No Plans to Buy Bitcoin for This Reason

One of the world’s wealthiest men has no interest in the top cryptocurrency in the world.

In fact, the Oracle of Omaha, also more recognized by his real name, Warren Buffett, wouldn’t buy all the Bitcoin in the world even if it costs $25.

Asked Saturday at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting if he had changed his negative views on bitcoin or crypto, 91-year-old Buffett said if all the attendees in the room owned “all the farmland in the United States” or “all the apartments in the country” and they offered him a 1% stake for $25 billion, he would write them a check on the spot.

But he wouldn’t do the same for bitcoin and its over-$700 billion market cap.

“If you … owned all of the bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25, I wouldn’t take it,” Buffett said. “Because what would I do with it? I’ll have to sell it back to you one way or another. It isn’t going to do anything.”

According to the legendary investor, farmland and rental properties versus bitcoin are different and it’s “the difference between productive assets and something that depends on the next guy paying you more than the last guy got.”

“The apartments are going to produce rent and the farms are going to produce food,” he said. “If I’ve got all the bitcoin, I’m back wherever [anonymous bitcoin founder Satoshi] was.”

He attributed the allure of bitcoin to a type of “magic” that draws investors.
“Whether it goes up or down in the next year or five years or 10 years, I don’t know. But one thing I’m sure of is that it doesn’t multiply, it doesn’t produce anything,” he explained. “It’s got a magic to it, and people have attached magic to lots of things.”

Buffett told CNBC in 2018 that “they will come to a bad ending” and said that Berkshire Hathaway will “never have a position in them.”

“I get into enough trouble with the things I think I know something about,” he said at the time. “Why in the world should I take a long or short position in something I don’t know about?”

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