Berkshire Hathaway Inc, run by billionaire Warren Buffett, on Friday warned traders it has no affiliation with a purported cryptocurrency brokerage web site utilizing the Berkshire Hathaway identify.
The web site describes its operator as a Texas-based dealer based in 2020 to offer traders “a chance to realize a very passive revenue from funding in cryptocurrency mining.”
It consists of purported buyer testimonials and says the dealer is regulated in the USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus and South Africa, utilizing incorrect names for 2 regulators. Its electronic mail format differs from that of Buffett’s firm.
Buffett has lengthy been skeptical of cryptocurrency, and in 2018 known as bitcoin “rat poison squared.”
In a press release, Buffett’s firm stated it discovered concerning the web site, berkshirehathawaytx.com, on Friday afternoon.
“The entity who has this internet deal with has no affiliation with Berkshire Hathaway Inc or its Chairman and CEO, Warren E. Buffett,” Berkshire stated.
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The web site’s operator didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Buffett has run Berkshire Hathaway Inc since 1965.
The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate owns a number of dozen corporations together with the BNSF railroad and Geico auto insurer, and as of Sept. 30 owned greater than $306 billion in shares.
Cryptocurrency has come underneath renewed scrutiny lately. This week, U.S. crypto traders sued FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and a number of other celebrities who promoted his trade together with NFL quarterback Tom Brady and comic Larry David, claiming they engaged in misleading practices to promote FTX yield-bearing digital foreign money accounts. FTX filed for chapter and is going through scrutiny from U.S. authorities amid stories that $10 billion in buyer belongings had been shifted from FTX to Bankman-Fried’s buying and selling firm Alameda Analysis.
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