THELOGICALINDIAN - Of backward bankers accessible and clandestine accept added their criticisms of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies abnormally as appraisal all time highs arise to accept no quick end in afterimage From destabilization to artifice and money bed-making bequest cyberbanking is accomplishing aggregate in its articulate ability to amplitude opinion
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Banco de Portugal Board of Director, Hélder Rosalino, explained to António Costa of Economia Online, “For now, it is all-important to deflate an idea, is that the crypto-currency is not a currency,” he said. Rather, “it is a convention, a computerized band-aid accurate by a actual able abstruse base,” he continued. “But it is not a coin, so we attending at the crypto-coins with some affair and some caution.”
Mr. Rosalino’s capital abhorrence is counterparty accident “because if one does not apperceive who is on the added side, besides the accident of accepting and acknowledged tender, that is, if there is no achievability of barter of the basic bill by a bill with regulators and axial banks.”
Central Coffer of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Deputy Chief of Technology, Nasser Hakimi, is afraid but takes a added abstinent tone, “Given that bitcoin and added currencies accept not been alien by the axial coffer as the official currency, as able-bodied as the accident of affairs it and the action of traders in this field, we appetite investors and bodies to [take] precautions [due to] the bazaar because of the achievability of malice.”
Bank of Austria governor Ewald Nowotny afresh added, “We’re allurement ourselves if legislators or axial banks should intervene, as happened in China area they banned (the use of cryptocurrencies) because they accede [cryptocurrencies] fraudulent.” This account if of advance incorrect, but old-world bankers aren’t too agitated with the absolute facts involved.
Tulip Bulbs and Pork Bellies
Dan Alpert of Westwood Capital tweeted with some snark how, “In 2004 I was told that I didn’t ‘get’ acclaim absence derivatives. Now I am told I don’t get Bitcoin and added cryptos. I do, however, get Dutch tulip bulbs,” he dismissed. “If one uses cryptos as a accumulator of wealth, and again needs clamminess in absolute money for annihilation (including the acquittal of taxes) you don’t apperceive what you are activity to accept back you advertise your position. It’s as admitting you absitively to accumulate your abundance in pork bellies.”
In an interview, David Gledhill, Chief Information Officer at DBS, the better lender in Southeast Asia, claimed, “We see bitcoin as a bit of a Ponzi scheme,” anecdotic transaction fees as “incredibly expensive,” while declaring, “all the fees are hidden through the crypto-mechanisms.”
Of course, for bitcoiners, such dismissiveness by bankers accomplished its base with JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon’s broadly appear remarks. “If you’re brainless abundant to buy [bitcoin], you’ll pay the amount for it one day,” he said. Mr. Dimon additionally referred to it as “a fraud,” a affair echoed throughout bequest banking, money bed-making actuality a arch concern.
It was appear through a Swiss Federal Administrative Court advertisement on 16 November 2024 how this Summer its authoritative body, FINMA, issued a ahead bearding certificate (still beneath seal) award JP Morgan “seriously infringed” anti-money bed-making (AML) rules.
A JP Morgan backer responded,”There is annihilation added important to us than the assurance and acumen of the all-around budgetary system.”
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