Dimon plays down Facebook’s cryptocurrency experiment in call

Jamie Dimon isn’t losing sleep over Facebook’s bid to create a new global financial system.

When asked on Tuesday about Facebooks’ Libra cryptocurrency project, which has been lambasted recently by President Trump and his administration, the J.P. Morgan Chase CEO replied that he didn’t see it as a near-term threat.

“To put it in perspective, we’ve been talking about blockchain for 7 years and very little has happened,” Dimon said during a conference call with analysts. “We’re going to be talking about Libra three years from now. I wouldn’t spend too much time on it.”

Of course, Dimon is making his own bet on a digital coin that could transform the global payments landscape: JPM Coin. That effort, reported first in February by CNBC, would remain within the regulated confines of the biggest U.S. bank.

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