{"id":36904,"date":"2021-02-23T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36904"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:44:20","slug":"bill-gates-cautions-investors-to-tread-carefully-with-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bill-gates-cautions-investors-to-tread-carefully-with-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates cautions investors to tread carefully with Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates urged potential investors not to follow the example of Tesla, which invested <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musks-tesla-invested-1-5-billion-in-bitcoin-the-assets-price-rose-to-44800\">$1.5 billion in Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bill Gates is not bullish on Bitcoin: \u00abIf you have less money than Elon, you should probably watch out,\u00bb he tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilychangtv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@emilychangtv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7fmKSw0d1\">https:\/\/t.co\/V7fmKSw0d1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SDVXGddATB\">pic.twitter.com\/SDVXGddATB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bloomberg Technology (@technology) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/technology\/status\/1364028002405769216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am not very optimistic about Bitcoin, and my overall takeaway is this: if you have less money than Elon, you should probably be careful,\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft co-founder also noted that digital currencies should be transparent and transactions should be reversible. As an example, he cited the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation, where all transfers can be tracked.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Elon Musk called Tesla&#8217;s investments in Bitcoin \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-calls-teslas-bitcoin-investment-quite-risky\">quite risky<\/a>\u201d and hinted that it was not his decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to analysts, unrealized profit from the purchase of digital gold <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-investment-proved-more-profitable-for-tesla-than-ev-sales\">has surpassed<\/a> the profits from selling electric vehicles for all of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on February 18 Gates said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bill-gates-outlines-his-stance-on-bitcoin\">he does not own Bitcoin<\/a> and takes a neutral stance on the asset.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates urged potential investors not to follow Tesla&#8217;s example, which invested {{AOPEN_1}}$1.5 billion in Bitcoin{{ACLOSE_1}}.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2107,18,1217,1319],"class_list":["post-36904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bill-gates","tag-bitcoin","tag-elon-musk","tag-tesla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36906,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904\/revisions\/36906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}