TL;DR
The opposite 10 Bitcoin ETFs in the marketplace have charges starting from 0.19% to 0.39%, whereas Grayscale’s sits at a weighty 1.5%
It appears to be like like Grayscale ran the numbers and figured most of their share holders wouldn’t wish to promote and take the 15-20% tax hit.
Whereas the Grayscale ETF has shed near $4B since its launch — which is greater than its two greatest rivals (BlackRock and Constancy) maintain mixed — the fund nonetheless holds a cool $21B of investor funds proper now. So extra promote stress may very well be coming to BTC…
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Keep in mind the opposite day once we talked about how the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF was crashing the crypto market?
Principally it was as a result of they refused to decrease their administration charges to compete with the opposite ETF choices, and buyers had been promoting out by the billions.
For context, the opposite 10 Bitcoin ETFs in the marketplace have charges starting from 0.19% to 0.39%, whereas Grayscale’s sits at a weighty 1.5%
Which begs the query:
If everyone seems to be bailing from their fund, why wouldn’t they simply decrease their charges?
Effectively…
It appears to be like like Grayscale ran the numbers and figured most of their share holders wouldn’t wish to promote and take the 15-20% tax hit.
And so they had been (largely) proper!
Trigger, whereas the Grayscale ETF has shed near $4B since its launch — which is greater than its two greatest rivals (BlackRock and Constancy) maintain mixed — the fund nonetheless holds a cool $21B of investor funds proper now.
Sadly, this implies there’s nonetheless a lot extra to promote, which might result in continued depressed crypto costs over the approaching week(s).
(This too shall move 🧘).