. >>> annie lennox, the eurythmics >> '82 >> '81 >> of course it's annie lennox >>> governments, the first thing they do is form a currency they like to control the currency they control it through a central bank they also like to know who has it, where it is, where it's going, okay? you saw china is closing down bitcoin exchanges. all i ever said is at bitcoin, the bigger these things get, governments look at it as a novelty. they love in washington to talk about technology, we love technology wait until someone gets hurt wait until it's used for illicit purposes, which it is being used for illicit purposes, they close it down. >> that was jamie dimon, speaking at the delivering alpha conference, with a pretty strong takedown of bitcoin, which took a hit on the comments. a widely followed investor refuted dimon's comments >> is it a fraud >> no. >> will it blow up >> it cannot blow up what countries can constrain today is how it's effectively traded but it cannot control it it is a fundamentally distributed system that exists peer to peer and so to the extent that you can basically