{"id":8389,"date":"2025-01-18T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T11:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2025-01-18T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T11:16:45","slug":"warren-buffett-openly-called-bitcoin-a-rat-poison-in-2018-7-years-later-he-is-invested-in-this-crypto-linked-stock-which-soared-27-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8389","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett Openly Called Bitcoin A &#8216;Rat Poison&#8217; In 2018. 7 Years Later, He Is Invested In This Crypto-Linked Stock Which Soared 27% In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Despite his well-known disdain for cryptocurrencies, the \u2018Oracle Of Omaha\u2019 \u2013 <strong>Warren Buffett<\/strong>\u2018s <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>) has invested in a company that supports the cryptocurrency market and has soared by 27.43% in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Buffett\u2019s Berkshire had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/personal-finance\/24\/05\/39093145\/berkshire-hathaway-profits-f%5B%E2%80%A6%5Dto-despite-warren-buffets-stance-on-not-buying-even-if-all-w\">initially<\/a> invested $500 million in a Series G funding round and subsequently another $250 million in <strong>Nu Holdings Ltd<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/NU#NYSE\">NU<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Nu, a Brazilian digital banking company launched its cryptocurrency platform, Nubank Cripto, in 2022. Berkshire has since added 0.3% of this company\u2019s shares in 18 months as of the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Berkshire increased its holdings from 0.1% in the fourth quarter that ended Dec. 31, 2022, to 0.4% in the third quarter of fiscal 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Initially supporting <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/management\/25\/01\/43073354\/warren-buffett-openly-called-bitcoin-a-rat-poison-in-2018-7-years-later-he-is-invested-in-this-cr\" alt=\"Warren\" buffett openly called bitcoin a poison in years later he is invested this crypto-linked stock which soared>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his well-known disdain for cryptocurrencies, the \u2018Oracle Of Omaha\u2019 \u2013 Warren Buffett\u2018s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) has invested in a company that supports the cryptocurrency market and has soared by 27.43% in 2024. What Happened: Buffett\u2019s Berkshire had initially invested $500 million in a Series G funding round and subsequently another $250 million [&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-8389","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\/8389","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=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}