{"id":20359,"date":"2025-04-03T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20359"},"modified":"2025-04-03T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T07:17:08","slug":"warren-buffett-avoids-bitcoin-but-do-you-know-berkshire-hathaway-owns-stake-in-a-company-that-pitches-btc-as-critical-inflation-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20359","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett Avoids Bitcoin, But Do You Know Berkshire Hathaway Owns Stake In A Company That Pitches BTC As &#8216;Critical&#8217; Inflation Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Legendary stock picker <strong>Warren Buffett <\/strong>has refused to include cryptocurrencies, including <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), in his firm <strong>Berkshire Hathaway Inc.&#8217;s <\/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>)<strong> <\/strong>portfolio, but the holding company, interestingly, has exposure to a firm that pitches the apex cryptocurrency as an inflation hedge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened: <\/strong>According to the latest 13F filing, Berkshire Hathaway holds 433,558 shares of financial services company <strong>Jefferies Financial Group Inc.<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/JEF#NYSE\">JEF<\/a>), worth nearly $34 million.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City-headquartered firm operates in investment banking and capital markets, and asset management businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Jefferies holds a sizeable stake in <strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/IBIT#NASDAQ\">IBIT<\/a>), the world&#8217;s largest spot exchange-traded Bitcoin fund. Filings with the SEC revealed that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44622000\/warren-buffett-avoids-bitcoin-but-do-you-know-berkshire-hathaway-holds-a-stake-in-a-bitcoin-hedge-advocate\" alt=\"Warren\" buffett avoids bitcoin but do you know berkshire hathaway owns stake in a company that pitches btc as inflation hedge>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary stock picker Warren Buffett has refused to include cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), in his firm Berkshire Hathaway Inc.&#8217;s (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) portfolio, but the holding company, interestingly, has exposure to a firm that pitches the apex cryptocurrency as an inflation hedge. What happened: According to the latest 13F filing, Berkshire Hathaway holds 433,558 shares [&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-20359","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\/20359","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=20359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}