Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel said at a Bitcoin conference Thursday, Warren Buffet is on the top of the “enemies list” trying to stop Bitcoin.
“Enemy No. 1,” Thiel said to a booing Miami crowd, is “the sociopathic grandpa from Omaha.” Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is based in Omaha, Nebraska.
Thiel has reportedly bought millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin in 2018 through venture firm Founders Fund and also called out BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon. Thiel presented large graphics with images of the two financial executives and their bearish comments about bitcoin.
All the images included the word“gerontocracy.” About Dimon, Thiel said his views are part of “the New York City banker bias.”
Thiel held a headshot of Buffet titled “rat poison” which the billionaire gave as a description to Bitcoin. A different quote from Buffett read, “I don’t own any and I never will.” Earlier this year, Berkshire invested $1 billion in Brazil’s Nubank, an online bank that’s popular among crypto investors.
