Warrenas Buffettas pateikia išsamiausią paaiškinimą, kodėl jis netiki Bitcoin

Bitcoin has steadily been gaining acceptance from the traditional finance and investment world in recent years but Warren Buffett is sticking to his skeptical stance on Bitcoin.

He said at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder meeting Saturday that it’s not a productive asset and it doesn’t produce anything tangible. Despite a shift in public perception about the cryptocurrency, Buffett still wouldn’t buy it.

„Ar jis padidės, ar mažės per ateinančius metus, ar per penkerius ar dešimt metų, aš nežinau. Tačiau vienas dalykas, dėl kurio esu gana tikras, yra tai, kad jis nieko negamina“, – sakė Buffettas. „Tai turi magijos ir žmonės pririšo magiją prie daugelio dalykų.

Even bitcoin enthusiasts tend to regard the cryptocurrency as a passive asset that investors buy and hold and hope to see increase in price over a long period. Buffet himself commented that there’s “nobody” that’s short on bitcoin, everyone is a long-term holder. Other coins in the crypto market have been created and known to be more productive assets, mainly decentralized finance assets, but they’re still young, highly speculative and haven’t broken into the mainstream like bitcoin.

Buffett elaborated why he doesn’t see value in bitcoin, comparing it to things that generate other types of value.

“If you said… for a 1% interest in all the farmland in the United States, pay our group $25 billion, I’ll write you a check this afternoon,” Buffett said. “[For] $25 billion I now own 1% of the farmland. [If] you offer me 1% of all the apartment houses in the country and you want another $25 billion, I’ll write you a check, it’s very simple. Now if you told me you own all of the bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25 I wouldn’t take it because what would I do with it? I’d have to sell it back to you one way or another. It isn’t going to do anything. The apartments are going to produce rent and the farms are going to produce food.”