Jamie Dimon, executive director of JPMorgan, said the bank will allow its customers to buy Bitcoin.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, a cryptographic skeptic that has previously labeled Bitcoin (BTC) As useless, now he says that bank customers can buy the digital reference asset. Dimón announced The measure during a speech on the annual investor day of the bank giant on May 19, 2025.
However, while JPMorgan offer to join other main banks and financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley, to bring BTC to its clients, Dimon is still skeptical. He also pointed out that, although JPMorgan will allow its customers to buy Bitcoin, the bank does not guard it.
From his personal opinion about Bitcoin, Dimon has said:
“I don’t think you must smoke, but I defend your right to smoking. I defend your right to buy Bitcoin.”
After calling Bitcoin without value in 2021, Dimon reiterated the shot during a Senate audience in 2023 and again in 2024 in the World Economic Forum in Davos. Earl this year, Dimon Bitcoin compared with a “fraud.”
In his comments on Crypt and the ecosystem for legislators, JPMorgan’s chief said he has always “opposed to Crypto, Bitcoin.” He pointed out that the only case of true use of cryptocurrencies remains for criminals, money laundering and tax evasion.
He said that he would do it turn off bitcoin If everything depended on him.
“If I were the government, I would close it,” he said in comments in December 2023.
While Dimon has maintained a negative vision of BTC and Crypto, the broader bank echoes has been heated more and more.
Banks such as Morgan Stanley have shown greater ambition in Taking advantage of the cryptographic market for its customers.
This has come to the launch of funds quoted in the Bitcoin Spot Spot Stock Exchange continues to highlight the institutional demand. He is also taking a more ascending trajectory is the tokenized asset market, with players like Blackrock Key Cogs.
Notable changes in the regulatory approach by the United States Stock Exchange and Securities Commission, bank regulators And others are also pushing cryptography to generalized adoption worldwide. This positive perspective has accumulated rhythm under the pro-Christptopto position of President Donald Trump.