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The Futureof Finance
The JP Morgan Chase Tower stretches fifty-two stories above Manhattan’s fabled Park Avenue, an imposing glass declaration of power and prestige. From one perch on the forty-ninth floor are stunning views of Central Park and midtown, along with fine art and a glass case that displays the pistols used by Vice President Aaron Burr to kill the country’s first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel. There’s a bar and a long table where bankers and their guests dine high above the city. Presiding over all of it is Jamie Dimon, the most influential banking CEO in the world and bitcoin’s most famous, most powerful nemesis.
Dimon has thick white-gray hair, soft features, and piercing blue eyes. One spring morning in ...
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