Why Warren Buffett hates Bitcoin?
3 Reasons why Warren Buffett hates Bitcoin
If there's one thing Warren Buffett will never ever invest in, it's Bitcoin -- or any form of cryptocurrency. He's called it "rat poison squared," a "mirage," and a "gambling device."
So Question is why he
hates this miracle digital coin/currency ?
Buffett doesn’t like Bitcoin because he considers it an unproductive
asset.
1. Doesn't have a
value like equity or commodity
Buffett
has a well-known preference for stocks of companies whose asset value, goodwill
and cash flow come from producing things. But cryptocurrencies don’t have real
value, Buffett said in a CNBC interview in 2020.
“They
don't reproduce, they can't mail you a check, they can't do anything, and what
you hope is that somebody else comes along and pays you more money for them
later on, but then that person's got the problem.”
2. Buffet doesn't
understand Crypto
Buffett
turned one of the most successful investors in history by holding stocks
he understands for longer period
"I
get in enough trouble with things I think I know something about. Why in the
world should I take a long or short position in something I don't know anything
about?”
But
people like to gamble, he told CNBC after a 2018 Berkshire Hathaway
annual meeting, which is another problem with nonproductive assets.
“If
you don’t understand it, you get much more excited than if you understand it.
You can have anything you want to imagine if you just look at something and
say, ‘that’s magic.’”
3. He doesn’t think crypto counts as money
As
a tradable asset, Bitcoin boomed.
But does it meet the three criteria of money? According to the most common
definition, money is supposed to be a means of exchange, a store of value, and
a unit of account.
But
Buffett calls it a “mirage.”
“It
does not meet the test of a currency,” the billionaire said on CNBC in
2014. “It is not a durable means of exchange; it's not a store of value.”
CRUCIAL QUOTE

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