Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is confident the cryptocurrency story will end in tears, but he isn’t putting any money on it. “In terms of cryptocurrencies generally, I can say with almost certainty that it will come to a bad ending,” the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive told CNBC in an interview. Buffett said that if it were possible to buy a five-year put option “on every one of the cryptocurrencies” he would do so, but that he would never “short a dime’s worth” of any of them outright. Buffett also said he had no interest in trading bitcoin futures . The bitcoin spot price was off 4% at $13,982.65, far off the all-time high above $19,000 it hit in mid-December.
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