HALAMAN SELANJUTNYA:
Is Jamie Dimon doing a U-turn on bitcoin?
It creates the impression that a standout amongst the most noticeable bitcoin cynics might change his tune.
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase and Co. JPM, - 0.34% has persistently poured icy water on the No. 1 advanced money, calling it a repulsive store of significant worth, an air pocket and a fake. Be that as it may, now, following partner Goldman Sachs Group GS, - 0.77% it shows up the U.S. saving money monster is plunging its toes in the computerized cash water.
The Financial News announced Thursday that JPMorgan had influenced a faculty to move, and Oliver Harris will move into a part that will inspect the utilization of computerized monetary standards for the bank.
Read: 'Extortion.' 'Not willing to pooh-pooh.' A rundown of what Wall Street CEOs have said in regards to bitcoin
The move would be an obvious turnaround for Dimon, who for over four years has turned his nose up at the possibility of digital forms of money assuming a part in standard monetary markets.
It started as ahead of schedule as January 2014, when he said bitcoin was "an unpleasant store of significant worth" and from that point, as the cost of bitcoin BTCUSD, - 1.90% took off, his comments got all the more blistering.
In November 2015, Dimon said bitcoin wouldn't survive, and under three months after the fact he said it is "going no place." Then in September 2017, when the cost of bitcoin was above $4,000, over 400% higher than when he initially tolled in, Dimon heaped on the warmth.