Is it really a surprise that a senior representative of "the established banking system" feels the need (whether out of desire to manipulate or simply to denegrate) to make such an inflammatory statement?

IMHO - 1. The bitcoin price fluctuation (which may have more to do with fears around the China ban) - and subsequent 75% recovery is a clear reflection that the Market seems to know better than Mr. Jamie Dimon.; 2. I'm more than a little annoyed that this comment has (yet again) made the focus so much on Bitcoin and not on the revolutionary value of Blockchain itself; 3. I'd love to know how Jamie Dimon's daughter feels about all the bitcoin currency fluctuation and what kind of dinner table lessons of life are shared/discussed.