Dimon Knocks Bitcoin Again: Crackdown Likely on 'Worthless' Cryptocurrency

in banking •  7 years ago  (edited)

Jamie Dimon is at it once more.

Increasing on his current criticism of bitcoin, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase financial institution is once more out within the media warning "it is going to finish badly" for the tech. In a contemporary spherical of press interviews, Dimon instructed CNBC he's involved a few flood of cryptocurrencies – because of bitcoin, ethereum and preliminary coin choices (ICOs) – and believes governments will quickly crackdown on the phenomenon.

Predicting that the situation is not going to be fairly, the CEO reportedly said that authorities will finally threaten customers with imprisonment, forcing the cryptocurrencies onto a black market.

He instructed CNBC:

"Proper now these crypto issues are sort of a novelty. Folks assume they're sort of neat. However the larger they get, the extra governments are going to shut them down,"

Chatting with the Financial Instances in India, Dimon added some extra element to his ideas, this time addressing the concept world governments would possibly subject cryptocurrencies.

"We have already got digital currencies ... you may have digital rupee, so I'm not in opposition to digital currencies," he mentioned.

"I'm speaking concerning the creation of cash and worth out of skinny air," he continued. "Governments now take a look at it prefer it's a novelty however the greater it will get the much less of a novelty it turns into."

The brand new remarks observe a polarizing assertion made by Dimon final week, when he overtly referred to as bitcoin a "fraud" and that he would hearth any worker for buying and selling it. Notably, Dimon is now being accused of spreading false and deceptive info in a market criticism by Blockswater, an organization in Sweden.

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