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Four years ago, <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/warren-buffetts-last-day-berkshire-ceo-rare-asset" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Warren Buffett</a> said he wouldn’t pay $25 for all the Bitcoin in the world. Today, that Bitcoin is worth roughly 68 billion times that amount.
At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6sEcFYQh_o" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">meeting</a> in Omaha on April 30, 2022, a shareholder asked whether Buffett and his longtime partner Charlie Munger had softened their <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/jim-cramer-picks-gold-over-bitcoin-to-balance-a-young-investors-portfolio" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">views on Bitcoin</a>.
Buffett said assets should produce something. Farmland grows crops, apartments earn rent and businesses make profits. Bitcoin, he argued, produces none of those.
<h2 id="buffett-s-25-jab">Buffett’s $25 jab</h2>
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 “If you told me you owned all of the Bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25, I wouldn’t take it,” Buffett said, drawing laughter from the crowd.
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<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/if-you-invested-1000-in-bitcoin-when-trump-took-office-in-2017-vs-2025-heres-how-much-youd-have-made-or-lost" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Related: If you invested $1,000 in Bitcoin when Trump took office in 2017 vs 2025, here's how much you'd have made or lost</a>
Munger went further.&nbsp;
He said he avoids things that are “stupid and evil and make me look bad in comparison with somebody else,” adding, “And Bitcoin does all three.” He also said it was “very likely to go to zero.”
“In the first place, it's stupid because it's very likely to go to zero. In the second place, it's evil because it undermines the Federal Reserve system and the national currency system, which we desperately need to maintain its integrity and government control and so on,” Munger added.
Earlier in 2019, Buffett also compared <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/michael-saylor-sees-something-big-coming-for-bitcoin" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin </a>to gambling device and said there has been a lot of frauds connected with it.&nbsp;
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 “It doesn’t do anything. It just sits there. It’s like a seashell or something, and that is not an investment to me,” he <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/BRK.B/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a>.
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<h2 id="what-that-bitcoin-is-worth-now">What that Bitcoin is worth now</h2>
According to the <a href="https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_market_cap" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">data</a>, Bitcoin’s total market value now stands at around $1.7 trillion, with roughly 20.1 million coins in circulation and each trading near about $84,000.
The ride has been rough. Later in 2022, <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/bitcoins-350000-price-target-comes-with-a-terrifying-warning-analyst-says" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin fell </a>about 65% to roughly $16,000 after the <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-crypto-ftx-binance-contagion-224955324.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">collapse</a> of the FTX exchange.
It recovered after US regulators approved spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024, then hit a record near $126,000 in October 2025.
It remains about a third below that peak today. Munger died in November 2023 at 99. Buffett has never publicly reversed that view, and he has never invested<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/top-bitcoin-billionaires-in-the-world-2026" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> in Bitcoin</a>.
<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/dave-ramseys-investing-advice-falls-short-study-finds" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Related: Dave Ramsey's investing advice falls short, study finds</a>
<h2 id="the-roundtable-100">The Roundtable 100</h2>
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Warren Buffett once offered $25 for all Bitcoin. Here’s its value now

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