- JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon beforehand slammed Bitcoin as a “Ponzi scheme”.
- On Thursday, he instructed CNBC’s Squawk Field that crypto is a decentralised Ponzi scheme and that Bitcoin is simply “hyped-up fraud.”
- Dimon says folks have misplaced billions of {dollars} and believes regulators ought to have put a cease to crypto “a very long time in the past.”
Not for the primary time, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has labelled cryptocurrencies nugatory.
On Thursday, throughout an interview with CNBC’s ‘Squawk Field,’ the famous crypto sceptic once more referred to Bitcoin as nothing however a “hyped-up fraud.” He condemned the benchmark crypto asset as a “pet rock”, expressing his disapproval by dismissing discussions over BTC and different cryptocurrencies as waste of time.
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Dimon says crypto ‘doesn’t do something’
In accordance with the JPMorgan CEO Bitcoin will not be a retailer of worth, and he confirmed his scepticism additional by suggesting that there might be greater than 21 million bitcoins sooner or later.
“How are you aware it will cease at 21 million? Perhaps it’s going to get to 21 million, and Satoshi’s image goes to return up and chortle at you all. And say ta-da!”
Dimon additionally went forward to check with crypto as a decentralised Ponzi scheme. In accordance with him the hype round digital belongings has been extraordinary, stating on the CNBC present:
“You guys, you’ve all seen the evaluation on Tether, the evaluation on all this stuff – the shortage of disclosures and it’s outrageous. Regulators ought to have stopped all these a very long time in the past. Individuals have misplaced billions of {dollars}. If you happen to take a look at its low-income folks, in some circumstances retirees.”
On what he needed to say concerning the crypto trade following the collapse of FTX, the JPMorgan exec summed up his outlook by noting that crypto “doesn’t do something.”
“It’s a pet rock,” he instructed the Squawk Field hosts, including that he doesn’t care about Bitcoin.