Jamie Dimon pravi, da bo "branil vašo pravico do nakupa bitcoinov" po dvigu cen

Izvršni direktor JPMorgan Jamie Dimon meni, da bi morali imeti državljani vso pravico do nakupa Bitcoina (BTC), če to želijo – tudi če je to zatočišče za kriminalne dejavnosti.

“I defend your right to smoke a cigarette, [and] I’ll defend your right to buy a Bitcoin,” je dejal Dimon at the Australian Financial Review summit in Sydney, according to the Financial Review.

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The executive’s words starkly contrast with what he told the Senate Banking Committee in December, navedbo “If I were the government, I’d close it down,” regarding crypto.

Takrat je trdil, da glavni primeri uporabe digitalne valute vključujejo trgovino z mamili, pranje denarja, izogibanje davkom, trgovino z ljudmi za spolne namene in podobno – tega prepričanja se še naprej drži. "Ko vlade gledajo na vse te stvari, zakaj se s tem sprijaznijo?" je ponovno vprašal ta teden.

He isn’t alone in his views: many high-profile Democrat politicians including Senator Elizabeth Warren and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler have imenovan drug trafficking and terrorist financing among Bitcoin’s chief trading purposes.

Recent data from the on-chain intelligence platform Haainaliza indicates that illicit crypto transaction volume took up 0.34% of all volume last year. Critics like former SEC enforcement leader John Reed Stark trdijo da ima Chainalysis pomanjkljivo metodologijo in da je kriminal, ki temelji na kripto, veliko večji od tistega v tradicionalnih financah.

Tudi mikrostrategija CEO Michael Saylor – one of the world’s largest owners of Bitcoin – claims most of the “anathema” surrounding Bitcoin surrounds its characterization as a currency, rather than property.

"Ni nujno, da gre za valuto," je dejal Saylor v ponedeljkovem intervjuju za CNBC. "Nihče ne poskuša kupiti skodelice kave z delčkom svoje stavbe na Peti aveniji."

Bitcoin še vedno slaba naložba, pravi Dimon

Since Dimon’s congressional testimony, a large share of Bitcoin trading activity has moved onto traditional rails via newly launched Bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States. The ETFs have since absorbira over $10 billion in net inflows, and the asset’s price is above its former $69,000 all-time high.

Kljub temu Dimon še vedno vidi bitcoin le kot »hišni kamen«.

"Nisem tako prepričan, da je svet tako varen ali kraj brez tveganja," je dejal o zadnjih pridobitvah bitcoina in zlata, pri čemer verjame, da sta lahko oba ujeta v špekulativnem balonu.

"Osebno nikoli ne bom kupil Bitcoina in mislim, da je tveganje, če ste kupec," je dodal.