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On Thursday, financial advisors were allowed to begin placing private bank clients into a new bitcoin fund created with crypto firm NYDIG, according to people with knowledge of the move. The fund is nearly identical to one NYDIG offers to clients of rival bank Morgan Stanley, said the people.
The sources declined to be identified speaking about the offerings, each citing an awkward fact: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has been one of Wall Street's most outspoken skeptics of bitcoin and related digital assets.
The moves by JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, makes it clear that Wall Street's years-long reluctance to deal with cryptocurrencies is over. It follows earlier steps by rivals Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to offer bitcoin funds to clients, CNBC first reported, and hundreds of smaller banks have lined up to do the same.
While Dimon has called bitcoin a \"fraud\" that wouldn't end well, there were signs that his resistance was eroding. Earlier this year, pressure at JPMorgan was building as clients asked for bitcoin exposure and employees openly pondered when the bank would get involved.
In May, with his bank in advanced negotiations with crypto firms to offer the array of funds, Dimon reiterated that he still didn't support bitcoin. But he conceded that \"clients are interested, and I don't tell clients what to do.\"
That may be because the NYDIG product gives more direct access to ownership of bitcoin, held in cold storage by the crypto firm, rather than the other funds, which are shares in a trust that's backed by bitcoin. Private bank clients typically have at least $10 million in assets and are considered more sophisticated investors.
Observers will now look to see if other Wall Street banks that have also offered limited crypto exposure to select clients follow suit. In March, Morgan Stanley MS began offering clients with at least $2 million in assets held access to three funds with bitcoin exposure, and in June Goldman Sachs GS began offering crypto futures trading to institutional clients and hedge funds.
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The bitcoin price has collapsed over the last year, plunging from an all-time high of almost $70,000 per bitcoin to around $20,000. The bitcoin price crash has dragged down the wider crypto market, wiping away around $2 trillion in notional value.
Now, JPMorgan, one of Wall Street's biggest banks led by outspoken bitcoin and crypto skeptic Jamie Dimon, has completed its first-ever cross-border transaction using blockchain-based decentralized finance (DeFi) in what's been called \"a massive step\" for the crypto space.
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The share of the population that have ever transferred funds into a crypto-related account tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, rising from a cumulative 3 percent prior to 2020 to 13 percent as of June 2022. See box below for background on how we track crypto-related flows. The adoption of crypto accounts (defined by the first observed crypto transaction) and the volume of transfers have come in concentrated episodes that coincide with sharp increases in the price of bitcoin. The majority of new crypto users in our sample, from 2015 to 2022, made their first transactions in a set of days spanning less than five months, all of which coincide with a trailing monthly price change exceeding 25 percent.
Consistent with crypto-assets being a new entrant to the retail investment landscape, in aggregate U.S. households have been net purchasers of crypto-assets over the past several years. In our sample, the ratio of transfer to crypto accounts to money flowing back into traditional checking accounts was 2 to 1 from 2017 to mid-2022. However, the relative flows had shifted to nearly balanced after the declines in bitcoin prices in May and June of 2022 (Figure 2), as transfers to crypto assets fell and outflows remained elevated. We view the rise and fall of crypto use since the onset of COVID as consistent with the joint relationship between retail flows and market prices seen in prior research. Additionally, the trend in crypto flows also tracks dynamics of household savings, which spiked to historic highs early in the pandemic but has begun to reverse.ii
With prices trading near $20,000 over the past several months, our average transaction price measurements imply that the majority of U.S. individuals have faced losses on their crypto investments. While a number of individuals have transferred money out of crypto, especially around the price declines in May and June 2022, only 13 percent of individuals have transferred out as much money as they transferred into crypto accounts. Figure 9 shows the share of individuals in our sample with implied average crypto purchase prices across the range of bitcoin prices. Less than 20 percent of individuals that transferred money into crypto accounts did so when bitcoin was below the recent trading range sub-$20,000 as of November 2022. Over half of individuals made their average crypto transfers when prices were above $40,000, suggesting significant investment losses for that group.
The timing of transfers around significant price spikes is characteristic of herd-like behavior. A wide range of U.S. households transferred money into crypto accounts when those assets were trading near their highest levels. Using bitcoin prices around the time of transfers to crypto accounts as a proxy for investment price, we find that lower income households bought crypto at substantially higher prices. The majority of U.S. households were likely facing significant losses in percentage terms at cryptocurrency prices prevailing in late-2022.
This means it has attracted a range of backers, from libertarian monetarists who enjoy the idea of a currency with no inflation and no central bank, to drug dealers who like the fact that it is hard (but not impossible) to trace a bitcoin transaction back to a physical person.
The exchange rate has been volatile, with some deeming it a risky investment. In January 2021 the UK's Financial Conduct Authority warned consumers they should be prepared to lose all their money if they invest in schemes promising high returns from digital currencies such as bitcoin.
Last year bitcoin, the original and biggest digital coin, lost nearly three quarters in value, putting the brakes on cautious curiosity from mainstream finance and investors that emerged during its vertiginous ascent in 2017.
Using bitcoin futures trading volumes as a proxy, JP Morgan said participation by financial institutions in crypto markets had slipped over the last six months, with individuals taking up an increasing share of the market.
The usage of cryptocurrencies for payments - the intended purpose of bitcoin - will remain \"challenged,\" JP Morgan said, adding that it was unable to pinpoint any major retailers that accepted digital coins in 2018.
Marketplaces where small businesses and individuals have control over payment methods would prove most fertile ground for the spread of cryptocurrencies, it said, citing a Reuters analysis of the usage of bitcoin in commerce. 781b155fdc