berkshire hathaway inc chairman and ceo warren buffett and his righthand man charlie munger dont appear to be warming up to bitcoin asked if their views had changed saturday afternoon at berkshires brka brkb annual meeting buffett said he preferred tangible assets that produce something such as farmland and argued that the us government would never allow a digital asset to supplant the role of the us dollar munger berkshires vice chairman was more direct in my life i try to avoid things that are stupid evil and make me look bad in comparison to somebody elseand bitcoin does all three munger said bitcoin btcusd was stupid because it was likely to go to zero evil because it undermines the role of the federal reserve and the crucial financial system and makes the us look foolish relative to the communist leader of china who effectively moved to ban bitcoin the pairs past criticism has attracted barbs from crypto enthusiasts with venture capitalist peter thiel recently calling buffett an enemy of the digital asset and part of a financial gerontocracy working to undermine bitcoins adoption