Absolutely. Remember when Jamie Dimon was tweeting that bitcoin was a scam and he would fire anyone he found who was buying or trading it? And then it came out that JPMorgan were buying bitcoin themselves, assigning parts of various portfolio and vehicles to bitcoin, and offering it to their institutional customers.
JD was at least a lot less evil to me than EM, and I understood his statement as it is coming from a man who didn't understand what Bitcoin was, but he later apologized and admitted he was wrong - which is rare in the world of people like him. Maybe he was just playing his game, and maybe he was just wrong - I don’t think that matters too much now.
As it would be for most "celebs". Musk, Dimon, Buffet, CSW, etc. All these people who publicly denigrate bitcoin aren't doing it because they care about the small people losing money on the bitcoin "scam". They all do it because they have some ulterior motive, because they are greedy, and because they only care about their own profits. People need to stop playing in to their hands.
I think that such people have become part of something that could probably be called
"financial religion", and all those who follow them are some kind of
"religious fanatics" for me - it's hard for me to explain it in any other way. I can't say if these people enjoy a great reputation only in the USA and where their followers come from - but I bet in some parts of the world people haven't even heard of them.