{"id":3933,"date":"2024-12-09T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T11:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2024-12-09T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T11:47:48","slug":"bill-gates-once-called-cryptos-nfts-a-sham-heres-how-much-a-1000-investment-in-bitcoin-then-would-be-worth-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3933","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Once Called Cryptos, NFTs A Sham: Here&#8217;s How Much A $1000 Investment In Bitcoin Then Would Be Worth Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Microsoft Corp. <\/strong>co-founder <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong> has maintained a grim view on cryptocurrencies, including <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), and some of his remarks over the years have been unsparing, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: The former Microsoft boss delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/22\/06\/27713181\/bill-gates-slams-crypto-labels-nfts-as-sham-based-on-greater-fool-theory\">scathing criticism<\/a> of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, back in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>At a climate conference, Gates said that such digital asset trends are like shams based on the &#8220;greater fool theory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he&#8217;s neither long nor short on digital assets, adding that he prefers investments that have valuable output.<\/p>\n<p>When Gates made this remark on Jun. 14, 2022, one Bitcoin was priced at $22,206.79. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42385558\/bill-gates-once-called-cryptos-nfts-a-sham-heres-how-much-a-1000-investment-in-bitcoin-the\" alt=\"Bill\" gates once called cryptos nfts a sham: here how much investment in bitcoin then would be worth today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates has maintained a grim view on cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), and some of his remarks over the years have been unsparing, to say the least. What happened: The former Microsoft boss delivered a scathing criticism of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, back in June 2022. At a climate [&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-3933","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\/3933","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=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}