JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has reiterated his negative stance on Bitcoin (BTC), stressing that he does not really care about the cryptocurrency. Dimon spoke on the subject in an interview with CNBC'southward Squawk Box on January. 23.

When asked if he was pleased with Bitcoin's collapse in 2022, Dimon stated that he was not, noting that multiple media outlets have over-reported his sceptical comments. The CEO argued that he had not intended to become the spokesperson against the biggest cryptocurrency.

During the interview, when asked if Bitcoin is amend than marijuana stocks, Dimon noted "that it is, but we're not banking pot either." In February 2022, JPMorgan had banned the purchase of cryptocurrency with their credit cards.

In the recent interview, the JPMorgan CEO also repeated his support for the idea of the underlying engineering science behind Bitcoin: blockchain. While expressing his pro-blockchain position, Dimon noted that he considers it to be a "real" applied science and called it an up-to-appointment database that anybody can access and trust.

Dimon had previously been reported as bullish on distributed ledger technology (DLT), which he claimed JPMorgan would utilise for various cases in 2022.

Even so, the CEO still noted that blockchain industry disruptors take been talking most their products for many years, but that no one appears to have done something effectively yet.

Afterwards announcing a blockchain-enabled organisation for global payments in 2022, JPMorgan Chase filed a patent for a peer-to-peer payment network based on blockchain in May 2022.

In Oct 2022, a research group released a study claiming that blockchain is a central technology for the banking concern's development roadmap to become a major digital banking company.