Warren Buffett Likens Bitcoin to Gambling and Chain Letters in Recent Interview

Finance mogul Warren Buffett, one of the most successful investors in history, discussed bitcoin during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box on April 12. As he has done in previous interviews, the business magnate likened bitcoin to a gambling scheme and chain letters he received as a child.

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Buffett Shares His Two Cents on Bitcoin, Warns Against Making a Living ‘Trying to Bet Against the House’

It is well known that Warren Buffett does not like bitcoin, and he once 言った that he wouldn’t buy all the ビットコイン (BTC) in the world for $25. Buffett is also known for saying that bitcoin is “probably rat poison squared,” and during an April 12 interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, he reiterated his distaste for the leading cryptocurrency. 間に インタビュー, he summarized bitcoin as a “gambling token,” and he insisted that the world has seen an “explosion of gambling.”

Warren Buffett Likens Bitcoin to Gambling and Chain Letters in Recent Interview

The Oracle of Omaha told CNBC broadcasters that he likes to bet on football games because it “makes it more interesting.” However, he also warned that he doesn’t think he wants “to make a living trying to bet against the house.” Buffett hinted that stimulus checks may have also increased the gambling drive. “You had millions of people who were receiving checks and money, sitting at home and finding out that they could have a roulette wheel in their house,” the investor said. When asked specifically about the leading crypto asset ビットコイン (BTC), Buffett 言った:

Bitcoin is a gambling token, and it doesn’t have any intrinsic value — but that doesn’t stop people from wanting to play the roulette wheel.

In the midst of Buffett’s gambling rhetoric, he also made a comparison to chain letters. Chain letters are messages that were commonly sent through snail mail, encouraging the recipient to forward the message to a certain number of people, promising that they would receive some sort of benefit in return. “I didn’t like chain letters when I was a kid,” Buffett explained to the CNBC show hosts. “I thought, ‘Why in the world would I send along a chain letter — when I could start my own?’”

While the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway clearly doesn’t like bitcoin, he is known for his aptitude for investing. Berkshire Hathaway owns several well-known businesses, such as Geico, Fruit of the Loom, Duracell, BNSF Railway, See’s Candies, Clayton Homes, Pampered Chef, and Dairy Queen. According to the latest data from companiesmarketcap.com, バークシャーハサウェイ (BRK-B) is listed as the eighth-largest market capitalization in terms of assets in the world. ビットコイン (BTC), on the other hand, is the tenth-largest market valuation worldwide according to the same website.

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Jamie Redman は、Bitcoin-Tidings.com News のニュース リードであり、フロリダに住む金融技術ジャーナリストです。. レッドマンは以来、暗号通貨コミュニティの積極的なメンバーです。 2011. 彼はビットコインに情熱を持っています, オープンソース コード, および分散型アプリケーション. 9月以降 2015, レッドマンはより多くのことを書いています 6,000 Bitcoin-Tidings.com の記事 今日出現している破壊的なプロトコルに関するニュース.




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