While i obviously don't agree with warren buffet's comments calling him an idiot for them is ignorant and just makes you look like an idiot. He's made BILLIONS from investing - he knows what he's talking about. The reason he made such comments about BTC, I believe, Is because he doesn't fully understand the technology.
Idolatry much.
I stand by my comments upthread.
He is dumber now. He was super smart when his capital was small and the industrial+tangible+socialism age was still young. Now it is peaking and dying with him too.
I don't hate him, but I sure don't idolize him. I don't want to follow him into his coming massive failure.
Perhaps his underlings and managers of his businesses are savvy enough to adjust to the knowledge age. We will see.
As I wrote upthread, he is correct that Bitcoin is not yet treated as a unit-of-account.
And I do think he might end up being correct about Bitcoin and wrong about an altcoin.
Because I think the government is going to tax BTC as a commodity, which will insure it can't be a unit-of-account because legal tender is not taxed on VAT and capital gains. And then merge Bitcoin into some digital fiat plan (the mining is already centralized in few pools so easily to force those owners to sell to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc). I believe this is why those banks have been patenting designs for the coming plan.
So that is why I don't think you will get 1000X gains that you BTC holders are extrapolating.
As I said in my first post upthread, he is somewhat correct, but only because Bitcoin is not designed to resist government regulation.