GBTC Bitcoin 'discount' may be gone by 2024 as share price gains 17%
Bitcoin (BTC) investment vehicle, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) could erase its BTC price “discount” in 2024.
In an X post on Aug. 30, monitoring resource CoinGlass predicted that the so-called “GBTC premium” would soon return.
Grayscale netting a court victory over United States regulators on Aug. 29 provided an instant remedy to what was flagging GBTC performance.
The fund, which contains over 600,000 BTC, has traded at a discount to the Bitcoin spot price, also called net asset value (NAV), since February 2021.
What was once the “GBTC premium” has thus been negative for over two-and-a-half years, but that could soon change.
News that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must consider GBTC’s conversion to a Bitcoin spot price exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the same terms as other applicants sent the “discount” to its lowest levels since December 2021.
At just -17%, it is now less than half of what it was at the peak, when it neared 50% in what was once called an “elevator to hell.”
“Expect Grayscale $GBTC premium to close the discount next year,” CoinGlass wrote in part of subsequent commentary.
Noting the size of its assets under management (AUM), Dylan LeClair, senior analyst at digital asset fund UTXO Management, reflected on the impact that GBTC had in shaping Bitcoin’s run to current all-time highs.
“Don't forget how large $GBTC is. They hold >600k BTC, and was the single largest driver of the 2021 bull run from a flows standpoint,” he told X subscribers on Aug. 29.
Eyeing the implications of the Grayscale news for BTC price action, meanwhile, market participants flagged the potential return of some key moving averages (MAs).
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