{"id":374093,"date":"2019-03-10T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/?p=374093"},"modified":"2024-06-11T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:45:28","slug":"wells-fargo-warren-buffetts-investment-paid-20-of-bitcoin-market-cap-in-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/news\/wells-fargo-warren-buffetts-investment-paid-20-of-bitcoin-market-cap-in-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells Fargo, Warren Buffett’s Investment, Paid 20% of Bitcoin Market Cap in Fines"},"content":{"rendered":"
In his recent interview with CNBC, America’s most successful capitalist Warren Buffett reiterated his negative stance on bitcoin.<\/p>\n
The legendary investor told Becky Quick<\/a>\u00a0that bitcoin was a delusional asset which “attracts charlatans,” adding:<\/p>\n \u201cIf you do something phony by going out and selling yo-yos or something, there\u2019s no money in it \u2014 but when you get into Wall Street, there\u2019s huge money.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The comments didn’t surprise. Buffett has already made a name of\u00a0himself for being a staunch bitcoin critic<\/a>. Last year, at the Woodstock of Capitalism, Buffett and his sidekick Charles Munger gathered to talk investing and ended up providing one of the most reference quotes on bitcoin. Buffett warned that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin would come to a bad end, while Munger called them a “dementia.”<\/p>\n However, this time, Buffett, in particular, tried to kick the bitcoin fans below their belts, by calling them frauds. It was certainly not going to go well among the white suits who primarily invested in bitcoin. Barry Silbert, Founder, and CEO of Digital Currency Group, for instance, took potshots at Buffett for investing in a firm named in multi-billion dollar frauds.<\/p>\n “Wells Fargo, a Buffett investment, has been fined 93 times for fraud and other abuses, for a total of $14.8 billion in fines since just 2000,” wrote Silbert. “I’ll take bitcoin’s “charlatans” over that any day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrysilbert\/status\/70036740<\/p>\n The fines make roughly 20-percent of the Bitcoin’s market capitalization.<\/p>\n A brilliant investor that he had become, Warren Buffett cannot let go of his past full of shady insider deals. In retrospective, his father was a stock market broker and a congressman. These are the only people who could trade on insider information without having to deal with criminal charges. Buffett spent a gala time in his father’s office learning about stocks and eventually bought his first shares at the age of 11.<\/p>\n By the time Buffett had come of age, he was already investing in firms suspected in financial frauds. His tales about Goldman Sachs fraud and what he did to bail himself and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, out would take a separate article to explain. But the case explained what power and money – and a handful of good connections – can do. (To know further about it, I would recommend you read this article<\/a>.)<\/p>\nA Hypocritic Capitalist<\/h2>\n