JP Morgan launches its own cryptocurrency

Recently JP Morgan rolled out its own cryptocoin, JPMCoin, a digital token that will be used to instantly settle transactions between clients of its wholesale payments business. The coin will have stable values(1 JMPC=$1) and will enable the bank to move and settle large amounts of funds.

What do you guys think of a major bank starting to use crypto-currencies for its transactions? Does it mean that other banks will start to follow suit and we will slowly start seeing more usage of crypto-coins?

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It's not quite a cryto currency...after all, its pegged to the US dollar, which effectively goes against the objective of typical crypto being completely decentralized.

JPM is experimenting to find a way to make payments instantaneous. Zelle is an example on the consumer side, but there isn't anything on the business side. Imagine a large corporation or hedge fund being able to send and receive $200MM within a couple of hours. Unheard of right now.

So to sum it up, it's more block chain than it is crypto.

 
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