{"id":25754,"date":"2025-05-08T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25754"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:01:39","slug":"warren-buffetts-berkshire-delivered-a-16000-gain-since-listing-but-bitcoin-the-asset-he-called-rat-poison-turned-pennies-into-fortunes-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25754","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Delivered A 16,000% Gain Since Listing\u2014 But Bitcoin, The Asset He Called &#8216;Rat Poison,&#8217; Turned Pennies Into Fortunes Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Warren Buffett<\/strong>, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/05\/45184410\/warren-buffett-to-step-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-ceo-by-end-of-year-asks-board-to-confirm-greg-abel-as-successor\">announced his retirement<\/a> as <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>) CEO, has built a towering investment legacy over the years, turning the holdings company into a $1.2 trillion behemoth and its stock into one of the most sought-after globally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened: <\/strong>Buffett began buying Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1962 and eventually bought enough shares to take full control of the company in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Berkshire&#8217;s original stock offering, the high-priced Class A shares, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 29, 1988, after being available only on the over-the-counter market for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the stock traded at $4,700 per share. Fast forward to May 2025, and its price &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45280752\/warren-buffetts-berkshire-delivered-a-16000-gain-since-listing-but-bitcoin-the-asset-he-ca\" alt=\"Warren\" buffett berkshire delivered a gain since listing but bitcoin the asset he called poison turned pennies into fortunes faster>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett, who recently announced his retirement as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) CEO, has built a towering investment legacy over the years, turning the holdings company into a $1.2 trillion behemoth and its stock into one of the most sought-after globally. What happened: Buffett began buying Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1962 and eventually bought [&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-25754","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\/25754","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=25754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}