New York — Jamie Dimon is having second thoughts about wading into the bitcoin controversy. The JPMorgan Chase CEO, who earlier called the cryptocurrency a "fraud", now says he wishes he had not dismissed the technology in such broad terms. "I regret making [those comments]," Dimon said in an interview with the Fox Business network on Tuesday. "The blockchain is real. You can have crypto yen and dollars and stuff like that." In September, Dimon said bitcoin was "worse than tulip bulbs", and threatened to fire any trader who bought or sold them for being "stupid". On Tuesday he said he was still not very interested in the subject, and thought government intervention may eventually hamper bitcoin’s growth and acceptance. "The bitcoin to me was always [about] what the governments are going to feel about bitcoin as it gets really big," he said. "I just have a different opinion than other people. I’m not interested that much in the subject at all." The values of digital currencies have s...
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