A February 5 post on X from ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ author Robert Kiyosaki has sparked controversy after appearing to contradict years of his own public claims about buying Gold, Silver, and Bitcoin (BTC).
In the post, Kiyosaki suggested he has not purchased Bitcoin or Gold in years, and only Silver recently, raising questions about whether his long-running ‘buy no matter what’ narrative has been overstated.
To begin with, the famous author bought his last BTC when it was trading at $6,000 – meaning about five years ago at best – according to the tweet.
Robert Kiyosaki simultaneously claimed he stopped buying gold around the time it was trading for $300, which was before the Great Recession, more than two decades ago.
Silver was something of an outlier as the prominent investor insisted he bought at $60 most recently: the argent metal was trading at the price in December 2025.
Why ‘Rich Dad’ R. Kiyosaki’s admission is controversial
Under normal circumstances, such claims would mean little more than that an investor entered the market early and correctly identified that holding long-term was the best course of action.
For Kiyosaki, the admission has generated controversy since, for months, he has been claiming he never stopped buying.
The latest X post, for example, swiftly got a ‘community note’ attached pointing to the fact that the author claimed as recently as January 22, 2026 – a time when Bitcoin was just under $90,000, silver at $96, and gold at $4,900 – that he was still buying.
Furthermore, Robert Kiyosaki has been publishing claims of buying throughout the 2025 and early 2026 rallies, with another controversial example coming in July 2025, a time when Bitcoin was close to $120,000.
Throughout the most recent cryptocurrency bull market, the finance guru’s advice has largely been beneficial for his followers, considering the majority of his favored assets have been rising steadily.
Is ‘Rich Dad’ R. Kiyosaki trying to scam his followers?
The February 5 X post, however, brought back into focus that the author has, over the years, been accused on numerous occasions of being a scammer and grifter.
While it is impossible to know the ‘Rich Dad’s’ motivation for writing the tweet, it has an uncomfortable similarity to examples where prominent figures tried to have their audience pump the price of an asset so they could quietly sell at a higher price.
Such a motive appears plausible – though, once more, unconfirmed – since the ‘Kiyosaki portfolio’ hasn’t been doing well since late January. Bitcoin crashed to its press time price of $64,756, erasing all gains since 2024 and falling below its 2021 highs. Ethereum (ETH), a less-discussed but nonetheless Kiyosaki-held asset, is down to $1,870.
Gold and silver haven’t fared much better – at least in the short term, since their 2026 gains mounted so rapidly that both are above their January 1 prices – and are down to $4,860 and $74 at press time.
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