{"id":25187,"date":"2025-05-05T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25187"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:16:46","slug":"warren-buffett-accidentally-makes-the-case-for-bitcoin-heres-the-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25187","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett Accidentally Makes The Case For Bitcoin \u2014 Here\u2019s The Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warren Buffett\u2019s farewell as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway ended with a paradox that will reverberate through Bitcoin markets for months. Moments after the 94-year-old \u201cOracle of Omaha\u201d confirmed that vice-chairman Greg Abel will assume the top job when 2025 draws to a close, the world\u2019s most celebrated value investor delivered a sweeping warning about the long-term corrosion of government money\u2014an argument that, stripped of its author\u2019s intent, reads like a pr\u00e9cis of the Bitcoin thesis.<\/p>\n

Buffett Still Doesn\u2019t Get Bitcoin<\/h2>\n

From the stage in Omaha\u2019s CHI Health Center, Buffett told<\/a> shareholders that the greatest threat to capital is not a bear market or a recession but \u201cthe tendency of a government to want to debase its currency over time.\u201d \u201cIf you\u2019ve got people that control the currency, you can issue a paper money and you will,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe natural course of government is to make the currency worth less over time, and that\u2019s got important consequences.\u201d He concluded that \u201cwe wouldn\u2019t want to be owning anything that we thought was in a currency that was really going to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those sentences, delivered without reference to Bitcoin, echoed through crypto X within seconds. Pseudonymous BTC commentator Carl Menger interpreted<\/a> them as an inadvertent endorsement of a non-sovereign alternative, writing that Buffett \u201csuggests it might be wise \u2018to own a lot of other currencies\u2019 besides the US Dollar. Almost like a decentralized, non-sovereign currency could fix this.\u201d Menger then jabbed that the nonagenarian \u201cstill can\u2019t grasp the value of Bitcoin and rather stacks other fiat Shitcoins.\u201d<\/p>\n

MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor\u2014who in 2023 said<\/a>, \u201cBitcoin is the answer to the question that mystifies Warren Buffett\u201d\u2014renewed the critique on Saturday, calling Berkshire \u201c20th Century Bitcoin.\u201d The contrast is stark: while Berkshire\u2019s cash pile has swollen to $347.7 billion at the end of Q1 2025, up from $334.2 billion three months earlier, Saylor<\/a> has been converting every spare corporate dollar into BTC.<\/p>\n

Buffett\u2019s decision to sit on a record hoard signals that, in his view, equity valuations remain unappetizing; for Bitcoin advocates, it is further proof that fiat liquidity is best redeployed into hard digital assets rather than idling in Treasuries and T-bills.<\/p>\n

Yet \u201cthe catch\u201d is that Buffett\u2019s philosophical alignment with monetary debasement hawks does not alter his personal verdict on Bitcoin. He still regards the asset with unalloyed contempt. In 2018 he famously called it \u201cprobably rat poison squared<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2020 he told CNBC<\/a> that cryptocurrencies have \u201cno value and they don\u2019t produce anything,\u201d and at the 2022 shareholder meeting he declared he would not buy the entire Bitcoin supply for $25 because \u201cit isn\u2019t going to do anything.\u201d Saturday\u2019s stagecraft did nothing to soften those views; the man who transformed a floundering textile mill into a $1.16 trillion conglomerate remains committed to productive enterprises over digitally scarce commodities.<\/p>\n

At press time, BTC traded at $94,629.<\/p>\n

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Warren Buffett\u2019s farewell as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway ended with a paradox that will reverberate through Bitcoin markets for months. Moments after the 94-year-old \u201cOracle of Omaha\u201d confirmed that vice-chairman Greg Abel will assume the top job when 2025 draws to a close, the world\u2019s most celebrated value investor delivered a sweeping warning about […]<\/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-25187","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\/25187","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=25187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}