{"id":1124,"date":"2024-10-14T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2024-10-14T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:19:29","slug":"if-you-invested-1000-in-bitcoin-when-warren-buffett-called-it-rat-poison-squared-heres-how-much-youd-have-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"If You Invested $1,000 In Bitcoin When Warren Buffett Called It &#8216;Rat Poison Squared,&#8217; Here&#8217;s How Much You&#8217;d Have Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Legendary investor <strong>Warren Buffett<\/strong> has built <strong>Berkshire Hathaway Inc<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/BRK#NYSE\">BRK<\/a>)(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/BRK#NYSE\">BRK<\/a>) into one of the most valuable companies in the world through a series of acquisitions and investments over the years, making the man known as the \u201cOracle of Omaha\u201d one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/movers-shakers\/21\/08\/17298128\/warren-buffett-turns-91-a-highlight-for-each-decade-of-his-life-1\">most followed stock pickers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buffett\u2019s investments have paid off, with Berkshire Hathaway recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/top-stories\/24\/08\/40604676\/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-breaks-1-trillion-poll-points-to-big-pharma-not-tech-as-next-cont\">joining the $1 trillion<\/a> market capitalization club. Investors who bought Berkshire Hathaway shares or followed Buffett&#8217;s stock picks have done quite well over the years.<\/p>\n<p>One area where following Buffett wouldn\u2019t have paid off for investors is cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Leading cryptocurrency <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/03\/37498047\/exclusive-bitcoin-hits-new-all-time-high-heres-when-benzinga-readers-think-100k-milestone-\">new all-time highs <\/a>of $73,750.07 in March.<\/p>\n<p>While Bitcoin is down from all-time highs, the leading cryptocurrency is up 42.8% year-to-date in 2024 and up over 130% in the last year, moves celebrated by the crypto community.<\/p>\n<p>One person likely not celebrating the move is Buffett, who is among<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/04\/26538722\/warren-buffett-is-bitcoin-enemy-no-1-a-sociopathic-grandpa-from-omaha-says-peter-thiel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0the leading vocal critics\u00a0<\/a>of the cryptocurrency sector.<\/p>\n<p>Buffett\u2019s bearish take on Bitcoin led him to <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">previously be labeled as Bitcoin\u2019s enemy number one by entrepreneur\u00a0<strong>Peter Thiel<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, Buffett warned investors about investing in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of cryptocurrencies, generally, I can say with almost certainty that they &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41319774\/if-you-invested-1-000-in-bitcoin-when-warren-buffett-called-it-rat-poison-squared-heres-ho\" alt=\"If\" you invested in bitcoin when warren buffett called it poison squared here how much have today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary investor Warren Buffett has built Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK)(NYSE:BRK) into one of the most valuable companies in the world through a series of acquisitions and investments over the years, making the man known as the \u201cOracle of Omaha\u201d one of the most followed stock pickers. Buffett\u2019s investments have paid off, with Berkshire Hathaway recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}