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CEO-ul JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, avertizează oamenii să fie atenți atunci când investesc în cripto, citând „Fără valoare intrinsecă”
The CEO of global investment bank JPMorgan has warned investors about investing in cryptocurrency. “Cryptocurrency has no intrinsic value. You are basically buying a token,” he said. “I would be very careful.”
JPMorgan Boss Jamie Dimon Warns About Investing in Crypto
JPMorgan Chase and Co’s (JPM.N) chief executive officer, Jamie Dimon, shared his thoughts on the U.S. economy, inflation, China, and cryptocurrency in an interview with CBS Boston, published Wednesday.
He was asked whether young people should invest in crypto in reference to several commercials encouraging investors to put money in cryptocurrencies, such as a comercial featuring Tom Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen.
“I’m a skeptic,” Dimon replied. “I mean blockchain is real if we use it for certain things. Parts of defi (decentralized finance) are real.” However, the JPMorgan boss emphasized:
Cryptocurrency has no intrinsic value. You are basically buying a token. Why it has a lot of that I don’t know, and I think there’s so much speculation taking place in stocks and securities and crypto and stuff like that. I would be very careful.
Nonetheless, Dimon said: “I defend people’s right to do it in a free country. I’m not going to do it.”
On Tuesday, Reuters also reported Dimon commenting on cryptocurrency. “It is not really a currency … It is hysteria,” the JPMorgan CEO was quoted as saying.
Dimon has always been a bitcoin skeptic. In October, he said that bitcoin este "lipsit de valoare,” questioning the cryptocurrency’s limited supply. He also said regulators will “reglementa the hell out of it.” In May, he advised people to stai departe din criptomoneda.
However, the CEO of JPMorgan acknowledged that his clients are interesat in this asset class and the bank is now offering some crypto investments to clients.
The firm’s analysts even doubled down on their prezicere că prețul de bitcoin will hit $146K in the long term. They see a “perspective bullish" pentru bitcoin as inflation concerns push the price of BTC superior.
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