Then he asked if he thought that Bitcoin was a bubble, the chief strategist of the investment giant Charles Schwab, Jeffrey Kleintop.

In an interview with Business Insider today, Kleintop said that Bitcoin was "a bit of its own thing" and hard to predict because of its "independence".

Bitcoin challenged the recent fate of traditional sources of information and investment, already beginning to reverse the losses seen last week when prices fell from less than $ 13,000 . Less than a week before the correction, Bitcoin touched more than $ 20,000 per coin

Despite the fact that analysts are discussing Bitcoin, Kleintop has clearly chosen not to be entirely d & # 39; agree, giving congratulations to the concept that Bitcoin was more of an unknown and unique phenomenon. Describing the abnormal nature of Bitcoin, he told Business Insider:

"… I think the Bitcoin bubble if you want to call it like that, it's something If bitcoin prices were to plummet suddenly, because it 's so much independent of the financial system, it' s kind of its own thing – it 's not yet integrated into the system. economy and financial structure. "

Other big names in traditional finance avoid the" bubble "question" this week include Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, who told Bloomberg that those who assume "pure speculation" is responsible for rising Bitcoin prices "have not done their job."

Sound own CEO, Henry Blodget, took a more diplomatic approach, stating that Bitcoin could be simultaneously a bul and "have a glorious future and change the world".

Bitcoin can be a bubble and change the world pic.twitter.com/WcjbMyK3Xy – Business Insider (@businessinsider) December 25, 2017

Blodget had described Bitcoin as n & Having "no intrinsic value" earlier this year.