Warren Buffett's farewell as Berkshire Hathaway's chief executive ended with a paradox that would return through Bitcoin markets for months. Shortly after the 94-year-old “Oracle of Omaha” confirmed that vice-chairman Greg Abel would think of the leading job when 2025 was near, the most popular investor value worldwide has brought a surprising warning about long-term government currency-an argument that, the author's intent, the author's intent, reads like a précis Thesis.
Buffett still doesn't get Bitcoin
From stage at Omaha's Chi Health Center, Buffett said Shareholders whose greatest capital threats are not a bear market or a backward but “the passion of a government who wants to define its money over time.” “If you have people who control the money, you can issue a paper money and you will,” he said, adding that “the government's natural course will make money less money, and it has important consequences.” He concluded that “we don't want to be ashamed of whatever we thought was in a money that was really going to hell.”
Those sentences, delivered without Bitcoin reference, shouted through Crypto X for a few seconds. Pseudonymous BTC commentator Carl Menger interpreted They are as an accidental endorsement of an non-soveran alternative, writing that the buffett “suggests that it could be smart 'to have many other currencies' besides the US dollar. Almost like a decentralized, not sovereign money can fix it.” Menger then broke that the nonagenarian was “still unable to understand the value of Bitcoin and instead stacked other fiat shitcoins.”
Microstrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor – that in 2023 Says“The contrast is Stark: While Berkshire's cash pile is swollen at $ 347.7 billion at the end of Q1 2025, from $ 334.2 billion three months before, Saylor is converting every spare corporate dollar to BTC.
Buffett's decision to sit on a record hoard signal that, in his view, equity values remain irresistible; For Bitcoin advocates, further proof that Fiat Liquidity is best redeployed to hard digital assets rather than idle in treasures and T-bills.
But “The Catch” is Buffett's philosophical alignment with financial hawks not changing his personal judgment on Bitcoin. He still mentioned the owner with no concern. In 2018 he famously called it “perhaps the rat of the poison square.”
In 2020 he told CNBC that cryptocurrencies had “worthless and they didn't do anything,” and in the 2022 shareholder meeting he declared that he would not buy the entire Bitcoin supply for $ 25 because “nothing to do.” Saturday's StageCraft did nothing to soften those views; The man who has changed a floundering textile mill in a $ 1.16 trillion conglomomy remains committed to productive businesses in digital shortcomings of goods.
At the time of press, BTC exchanged $ 94,629.
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