Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) plunged by 10.66% early Monday morning to hit a new 31-month low of $7.46 per share, but then quickly found a bid and bounced throughout the rest of the day... closing Monday down by only 0.84% to $8.28 per share. GBTC bounced from a record discount reached on Monday morning of 50% below NAV to close Monday at a discount of only 42.62% below NAV.
Who was the big buyer of GBTC on Monday? Cathie Wood of course! When was the last time that Cathie Wood was right about anything??? Why do investors keep giving Cathie Wood more money when it looks like she is purposely trying to lose money?!
Even if GBTC's discount below NAV from early Monday morning of 50% was a bottom for the discount, it doesn't make GBTC a good investment. Too many people are defending GBTC and their decision not to publicly release their Bitcoin wallet addresses and prove that they actually hold their Bitcoin.
Some people are falsely claiming that Coinbase Custody has a non-disclosure policy for Bitcoin addresses, but a small competitor to GBTC known as Osprey Bitcoin Trust (OBTC) also stores their Bitcoin through Coinbase Custody and OBTC published the location of its Bitcoin wallets on Monday, which you can see by clicking here.
OBTC closed Monday up by 0.65% vs. GBTC declining by 0.84% and the NAV of both funds declining by 5.07%. OBTC charges a much lower management fee of 0.49% vs. Barry Silbert's rip-off Grayscale management fee for GBTC of 2%. Keep in mind, management fees are based on NAV, so GBTC's fee is equal to 3.49% of its current market value.
Despite OBTC's much greater transparency and significantly lower fees, OBTC closed Monday at a discount of 40.9% below NAV, which is only slightly below GBTC's discount of 42.62% below NAV. Even if you consider the risk of GBTC not having its 635,000 Bitcoin to be low, it is absolutely pointless to take that risk when OBTC is trading at nearly the same discount and has fully disclosed the wallet addresses of its Bitcoin holdings.
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