The World’s Largest Bitcoin Fund Is Troubled. Here’s Why.

Barrons2021-11-24

Bitcoin can’t seem to shake its funk. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was trading at around $57,300 on Tuesday, down 1% and hovering well below its all-time highs near $69,000. Investors in the ...

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Unless it is for the purpose of diversication without putting in significant cash, it does not pay to buy a fund or a ETF.
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Its next-closest rival, the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy (BITO) exchange-traded fund, has racked up $1.3 billion in assets since launching in October.\nInvestors have flooded into the Grayscale trust because it owns Bitcoin directly, while the ProShares ETF and others gain exposure through futures contracts. The Securities and Exchange Commission hasn’t approved a spot-based Bitcoin ETF, recently rejecting an application from VanEck.\n“An ETF is the most efficient way to resolve any discrepancy between our products’ share price and the NAV,” a Grayscale spokesman says. “Investors want their Bitcoin exposure in the form of a Bitcoin Spot ETF, and, at Grayscale, it’s what we believe they deserve.”\nMany institutional investors own Bitcoin through the Grayscale trust. Its largest holder is Ark Invest, the fund shop run by Cathie Wood, which has invested $375 million in the trust, including assets held in its Ark Next Generation ETF (ARKW). 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But Bitcoin itself rose 160% over that stretch.\n“Investors that crowded into GBTC, buying at a premium, really got burned,” says Morningstar analyst Bobby Blue.\nAccredited investors, with at least $1 million of net worth or annual income above $200,000, may have done better. Such investors are eligible to buy the shares directly from Grayscale at the NAV price. Grayscale filed for 35 private placements throughout 2020 and into early 2021, according to Morningstar.\nWhen the trust traded at a premium, buying at the NAV could have paid off handsomely, since investors gained access to assets at a discount to their market price.\nGrayscale collected $1.2 billion in assets from accredited or institutional investors in December, 2020, a period when the Trust traded at premiums of 19% to 40%, according to Morningstar.\n“Those stuck buying on the open market had to do so at a significantly marked-up price,” says Blue. 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