It doesn’t matter if you’re a fellow billionaire, in Peter Thiel’s book, you either see cryptocurrency as the future, or you’re an “enemy.” “Enemy number one: the sociopathic grandpa from Omaha,” Thiel, the billionaire PayPal cofounder and pro-Trump Republican mega-donor said in an address at a cryptocurrency conference in Miami this week, sneering at business magnate and Nebraska native Warren Buffett.
It featured Super Bowl champion Odell Beckham Jr., tennis superstar Serena Williams, and football player and newly minted anti-vax icon Aaron Rodgers, all of whom are among the myriad celebrities who have embraced crypto—some being paid to hawk it to the masses.
Thiel vowed “to expose” his fellow billionaires who are perhaps more crypto-skeptical—though even those on Thiel’s list of so-called enemies clearly also see there’s money to be made.
Fink has said that Bitcoin is an “index of money laundering.” But like Buffett, Fink is slowly warming up to Bitcoin, writing in a March letter to shareholders that a “global digital payment system, thoughtfully designed, can enhance the settlement of international transactions while reducing the risk of money laundering and corruption.” Even Dimon, who refuses to call digital coins “currencies,” recently praised the blockchain technology used by Bitcoin in a letter to JPMorgan Chase shareholders.
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