Warren Buffett: 'I don't own any cryptocurrency and I never will'

Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman and CEO Warren Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick on Monday that he’s staying away from cryptocurrencies. “I don’t own any cryptocurrency and I never will,” he said.

“Cryptocurrencies basically have no value and they don’t produce anything,” he told CNBC’s Becky Quick in a Squawk Box interview. “In terms of value: Zero.”

“I don’t have any cryptocurrency and I never will,” he added. Buffett joined CNBC to discuss the markets just days after he released his annual shareholder letter.

Buffett has been a long-time critic of the world’s largest digital coin. He called bitcoin “probably rat poison squared,” ahead of the 2018 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting. A “mirage,” “not a currency,” and “tulips” are among the descriptors Buffett has used for bitcoin, according to CNBC’s Warren Buffett Archive.

Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger has called it a “turd,” and said that trading cryptocurrencies is “just dementia.”

Last year, in an attempt to change Buffett’s mind, Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency TRON and CEO of file-sharing company BitTorrent, bid $4.6 million in a charity auction to have a meal with the bitcoin skeptic.

“When Justin and four friends came, they behaved perfectly and we had a very friendly three and a half hour dinner and the whole thing was a very friendly exchange of ideas,” Buffett said. He added that neither he nor Sun changed their stance on the coin.

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