JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon regrets calling bitcoin a "fraud"

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon regrets calling bitcoin a "fraud" but added that he still was not interested in the cryptocurrency at all, he said in an interview on Fox Business on Tuesday.

Dimon had called bitcoin a fraud at a bank investor conference in New York in September. "The currency isn't going to work. You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart," he had said.

Several banks, exchange operators, and companies have embraced bitcoins, fueled by increasing consumer and investor interest.

Bitcoin was down nearly 2% at $14,786 in early trading on Tuesday. It traded at $909 a year ago and breached $19,000 in December.

Dimon made the comments at the JPMorgan Health Care Conference in San Francisco.

(Reporting By Aparajita Saxena in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

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