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Ark Invest, the investment firm led by Cathie Wood, has purchased another 176,945 shares worth about $1.4 million in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) fund, according to an investor email seen by Decrypt.
This is the firm’s second large GBTC purchase in just as many weeks.
According to Bloomberg, the Florida-based investment fund bought nearly 315,000 GBTC shares totaling $2.8 million last week.
Ark now holds nearly 6.357 million GBTC shares representing 0.4% of the firm’s total investments.
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Grayscale, however, abstained from disclosing details about GBTC’s Bitcoin backing, citing “security reasons.”
This move created chaos among cryptocurrency investors surrounding GBTC’s liquidity, widening its infamous discount.
Per Grayscale’s latest announcement, the company’s GBTC underlying is valued at $9.9 billion, reflecting a holding per share (GBTC) of $14.43.
But the market price of GBTC is around $8.28, a whopping 42.6% discount from the underlying Bitcoin value. Last Friday, the GBTC discount hit an all-time high of 45.08%, according to data from Ycharts. This means that GBTC shares trade for less than the net value of Bitcoin.
GBTC discount is nothing new. Since February 2021, shares in GBTC have traded at a discount to the underlying asset.
One of the primary reasons why this discount has emerged is because there is currently no mechanism to redeem the underlying asset. If that were the case, then it would be easy for arbitrageurs to buy the discounted asset and redeem it for Bitcoin to turn a profit.
Instead, the only option is to sell the shares, a market force stirred on by the industry’s ongoing liquidity crunch.
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