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Before you believe Dimon’s claims that Bitcoin is a fraud just remember what he tried to build in 2013

Before you believe Dimon’s claims that Bitcoin is a fraud just remember what he tried to build in 2013
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Saul Bowden
September 14, 2017

JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon has ruffled a lot of feathers this week. Mr Dimon claimed that Bitcoin is a fraud that will ultimately blow up. There is just one little problem with Mr Dimon’s assertion. To find out why we need to go on a trip to the long pastimes of 2013, where Mr Dimon and JP Morgan attempted to set up their own Bitcoin rival.

The concerns raised by Mr Dimon certainly raise some questions about his own motives

Mr Dimon’s concerns are strange considering that in 2013 JPMorgan attempted to file a patent for a currency that strongly resembled Bitcoin. After all, he believes that cryptocurrencies are only viable if you are “in Venezuela or Ecuador or North Korea or a bunch of parts like that” or are “a drug dealer, a murderer, stuff like that”. It seems very odd for an upstanding financial institution like JP Morgan to want to corner the Venezuelan drug dealer market. If Bitcoin is a fraud, then surely his own idea was no better?

To be fair to Mr Dimon and JP Morgan they weren’t entirely copying Bitcoin. They simply wanted to make a system where users could make anonymous online transactions without a fee using ‘virtual cash’ that would sit in an ‘online wallet. So nothing like Bitcoin or any other  cryptocurrency at all.

It is in Mr Dimon’s interests for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to fail. They risk undermining the ability of financial institutions to retain customers and make money. Especially if currencies they have no control over come to dominate the market, forcing big banks to compete on a relatively equal playing field.

Despite his motives Mr Dimon does have some legitimate concerns

Mr Dimon’s comments come on the back of a major crash in the cryptocurrency market. At time of writing Bitcoin has slipped below the $4000 mark and at time of writing sits at $3,483. This crash was largely on the back of China’s concerns about Initial Coin Offerings.

There are many aspects of the cryptocurrency market that could pose problems for the market in the future. They key problem will be lack of regulation over how currencies operate. If Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are ever going to get a real mainstream appeal they will need to be accepted by Governments. This will mean regulation. The problem for the currencies is that even the hint of regulation can spark mass selloffs.

There are also concerns over investor protection and security. Ethereum was forced to fork due to potential vulnerabilities and Korean hackers are currently targeting Bitcoin exchanges. If there are security breaches then users are at risk of losing their entire investment with little or no recourse to recover any of their funds.

Many of these weaknesses can and are being dealt with over time. It should also be remembered that cryptocurrencies are still fairly new technology. There will be a number of experiments, some of which will do well and some of which will fail.

No matter how much Mr Dimon claims that Bitcoin is a fraud it is not so different from any other form of investment at the end of the day. If you don’t invest more than you are able or content to lose then you will not face any problems.

 

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You'll find me wandering around the Science sections mostly, excitedly waving my arms around while jumping up and down about the latest science and tech news. I am also occasionally found in the gaming section, trying to convince everyone else that linux is the future of the computer gaming.

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