Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has become the most cash-rich company in the world. In its quarterly report on Saturday, the firm said its cash hoard had grown to over $347 billion during the first quarter of 2025. This article assesses how much more money Berkshire would have had if it had invested just $1 billion in Bitcoin in 2015.
What if Warren Buffett Invested in Bitcoin in 2015?
Berkshire Hathaway had over $32 billion in cash at the beginning of 2015, meaning that Berkshire’s cash hoard today is over 10 times larger. The money mainly comes from asset disposal, including sales of companies like Bank of America and Apple.
If $1 billion had been invested in Bitcoin, it would have been equivalent to just 3.125% of the cash hoard. At the time, Bitcoin was trading at $300 a coin, meaning that a $1 billion purchase would have acquired over 3.33 million Bitcoins.
Bitcoin price today is $94,000, meaning its value would be $312 billion, $35 billion less than Berkshire’s current cash hoard.
Of course, Buffett and the late Charlie Munger hated Bitcoin, which they predicted would be worth zero over time. Instead, the price of BTC has continued rising over time, and more institutions are now investing in it.
In addition, analysts believe that the Bitcoin price has more room to grow in the future, meaning that a $1 billion investment would still generate a steady return over time. For example, Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, has hinted that the coin will eventually surge to $700,000.
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest believes the Bitcoin price will surge to $2.4 million by 2030. Other key opinion leaders, such as Changpeng Zhao, Michael Saylor, and Standard Chartered, also see it soaring in the coming years.
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Other Berkshire Hathaway Missed Opportunities
While Warren Buffett is widely seen as the best investor of our time, he has missed other exciting investments over time.
He has long avoided investing in technology companies, which he sees as highly overvalued. By doing this, he missed investing in companies that would become the biggest firms in the world, such as Alphabet, Facebook, Palantir, Tesla, and Netflix.
He invested in Apple only a few years ago, and this purchase has become his most successful one yet. He invested in Amazon when it was already a mature company, thus missing the significant gains made in the earlier years of its growth.
Buffett announced he would step aside later this year, leaving the position to Greg Abel, a long-time lieutenant. As such, it would be interesting to see whether Berkshire Hathaway, under new leadership, will make some unconventional bets, including Bitcoin (BTC).
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