This doesn't really sound any less criminal than Binance and their activities, but the penalty differs by a lot. The banks are still powerful and a penalty of $920 million doesn't hurt them either. They are making a net profit of around $15 billion per year and yet they are given a three-year deferred prosecution agreement? Why is that even the case? I am not sure why they would need a deferral why they are granted it at all? I guess they have enough liquidity to pay such a penalty with their pocket cash. But it is what it is, double-standards all the time.

Well, there are already people like him in government who have been wishing from day one to see Bitcoin fail, but it never worked out for them. Even if he was one of them, he still wouldn't be able to do anything, except ranting about how much he hates Bitcoin, and that wouldn't change anything. So right now, he's the least of my worries, if there's any.

That's what I love about Bitcoin. They can threaten it as much as they want, but they can't do shit. Even if they'll ban in there, people who need it will find a way to buy it, and everyone else simply won't care.

I watched the video of this on X a few days ago and I just scrolled passes it. If the CEO of a global bank isn't against Bitcoin then who else will? They feel threatened by Bitcoin and they're powerless to stop it so this is all they can do.
This is one very big advantage of Bitcoin being decentralized. If Bitcoin wasn't centralized, by now powerful people and corporations like his and the people and corporations he works in collaboration with the government would have been fighting to bring the people or company that owns Bitcoin down, and they would have done so eventually because I don't know how powerful a person has to be to fight against such powers and win.

I think it was yesterday or so that I saw a post with a link to an article on this forum where the owner of Cardano says the crypto industry would be good without Bitcoin. This is something you expect people like this to say and frankly speaking, I don't know if I'd say something different if I was in his shoes.
There's no way he'll come out and say the coin he's preaching to investors as the future is dependent on Bitcoin.

So when we see people with companies that are competitions in whatever way (because it'll be a big disrespect to Bitcoin if I called Cardano its competition to Bitcoin) to Bitcoin saying the most predictable things we expect them to say about Bitcoin it shouldn't be a surprise to us.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, at least we also have public figures who if they were the government wouldn’t shut Bitcoin down, eg: Elon Musk  . Well, what JP MORGAN CEO is saying is something we’re tired of hearing. We’ve heard how kidnappers prefer Bitcoin as ransom, we’ve heard about how Bitcoin is what Drug traffickers uses to mask their crimes, we’ve heard a lot and what I can say is that these things were already there before Bitcoin came. It’s choice if someone chooses to use Bitcoin for bad, but can you help it? No. After all, someone can use objects as offensives too.

There is nothing new to it, Government or banks has always seen Bitcoin as a threat to them, that is why they want to put it down.
But look at it, Bitcoin is still here and it is even stronger and well known today compare to how it was before.
I guess it just goes to prove that good or bad publicity is still publicity, and those who bad mouthed Bitcoin or crypto before, just helped spread out the word about it.

He's the same person who said that Bitcoin is a fraud 6 years ago. Now the price of that "fraud" thing that he said a few years back is much, much higher now.
Another one is that, he's the owner of one of the largest banks, so I guess there's no surprise that he will be saying things like this in the public.

Luckily, he isn't a part of the government, and even he does, I don't think that he can do it. Bank owner have always look not only Bitcoin but crypto in general as a negative thing for them as it affects their business. Let them speak because at the end of the day, what they can do only is to just speak, but they can't do anything about it including stopping or closing Bitcoin.

If one day he will be in the government, I will be sharing 2 words for him if he will still try to close Bitcoin down. Good Luck. 

He's only saying that because he's afraid of Bitcoin. We all know the government can't stop Bitcoin. What it can only do is introduce restrictions/limitations to prevent as much people as possible from getting access to it (particularly through CEXs). But that won't stop anyone from using it secretly. Bitcoin is decentralized, so it's virtually impossible to enforce regulatory action.

With countries gradually adopting BTC as legal tender, it should only be a matter of time before Fiat currencies (like the USD and EUR) become a thing of the past. I really hope Bitcoin beats down those greedy banks for good. Only then, we can have a truly-decentralized economy. The more people adopt BTC, the more Fiat will lose ground in the mainstream world. What will Jamie say once BTC becomes the reserve currency of the world? 

Bankers, politicians, judges, they're all the same and they work together. I still remember the first time I watched the movie "The big short", at the end it was explaining that pretty much not a single banker got arrested. For me it was mind blowing, maybe because I was young, maybe because I had a different idea of the USA, I don't know, I just feel like that it doesn't matter whether you're a first or third world country, whoever has money always wins.