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Why Cryptocurrency Price Gains Are Scaring the Big Banks [CHART]

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler • March 15, 2018

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Dramatic cryptocurrency price increases over the past couple of years show just how much the new technology is growing in power and influence.

And that has the Big Banks worried.

Last year the amount of capital invested in cryptocurrencies grew large enough to start making Wall Street nervous. When cryptocurrency prices were soaring in early January, their total value - sometimes referred to as "market cap" - shot up to $830 billion.

On one hand, Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) recognize the potential of blockchain technology - the distributed digital ledger that most cryptocurrencies are built on - to streamline their own operations.

Related: Why Cardano Coin Is Cryptocurrency's Sleeping Giant

But while Wall Street wants to harness the blockchain for its own purposes, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin - which function outside of the control of any government or central bank - represent a threat.

That, combined with the large capital flows into cryptocurrencies, has put Wall Street on notice...

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Bank Concerns Rise Along with Cryptocurrency Prices

This year most of the Big Banks - as well as several regional banks - added cryptocurrencies as one of the risks to their business in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"Both financial institutions and their non-banking competitors face the risk that payment processing and other services could be disrupted by technologies, such as cryptocurrencies, that require no intermediation," JPMorgan wrote in its annual report.

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) expressed similar concerns in its annual report.

"The widespread adoption of new technologies, including internet services, cryptocurrencies and payment systems, could require substantial expenditures to modify or adapt our existing products and services," the Bank of America report said.

While cryptocurrency prices have pulled back this year, they still rival the valuations of the Big Banks. And the banks know at some point money will start pouring into the crypto space again, supplying more "ammo" for challenging Wall Street's dominance of the financial world.

This chart from mid-February compares the size of cryptocurrencies to the market caps of several Big Banks.

It shows why cryptocurrencies have landed on the list of things Wall Street is worried about...


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David Zeiler, Associate Editor forĀ Money MorningĀ at Money Map Press,Ā has been a journalist for more than 35 years, including 18 spent atĀ The Baltimore Sun. He has worked as a writer, editor, and page designer at different times in his career. He's interviewed a number of well-known personalities - ranging from punk rock icon Joey Ramone to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Over the course of his journalistic career, Dave has covered many diverse subjects. Since arriving atĀ Money MorningĀ in 2011, he has focused primarily on technology. He's an expert on both Apple and cryptocurrencies. He started writing about Apple forĀ The SunĀ in the mid-1990s, and had an Apple blog onĀ The Sun's web site from 2007-2009. Dave's been writing about Bitcoin since 2011 - long before most people had even heard of it. He even mined it for a short time.

Dave has a BA in English and Mass Communications from Loyola University Maryland.

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IT truly would break my heart to see the big banks completely have to restructure their size and get back to what they were designed for instead of building mega corporations to control the world debt. These industries are not only outdated and not needed but are so corrupt as to be more criminal than useful. They do whatever they can (legal or not) to get profits. As an industry that has no credibility left as a result of their own actions, it couldn't happen to soon for me.

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