{"id":223114,"date":"2024-04-12T04:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/gbtc-outflows-drop-significantly-as-bitcoin-price-rebounds\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:45","slug":"gbtc-outflows-drop-significantly-as-bitcoin-price-rebounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/gbtc-outflows-drop-significantly-as-bitcoin-price-rebounds\/","title":{"rendered":"GBTC outflows drop significantly as Bitcoin price rebounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/8i7tFnLPQDK5d0IHwmVOvw-900x561.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) has experienced a significant decrease in outflows, coinciding with a rebound in the price of Bitcoin following the release of new United States inflation data.<\/p>\n<p>On April 10, GBTC outflows dropped to $17.5 million, a nearly 90% decrease from the $154.9 million outflows recorded the previous day, <a href=\"https:\/\/farside.co.uk\/?p=1321\">according to Farside data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) has risen by 2.08% over the past 24 hours, currently trading at $70,474, <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/bitcoin\/\">as per CoinMarketCap data<\/a>. However, the cryptocurrency briefly hit local lows of $67,482 after the release of the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) for March, which came in higher than expected at 3.5% year-on-year. This led to concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-demand-grayscale-research-inflation-interest-rates-united-states\">might further delay interest rate cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some crypto commentators are expressing hope that this could mark the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1770968531632357789\">beginning of a slowdown in GBTC outflows<\/a>, which have totaled $16 billion since GBTC was converted to a spot Bitcoin ETF in January. Thomas Fahrer, CEO of crypto-focused reviews portal Apollo, pointed out that the April 10 outflows are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomas_fahrer\/status\/1778182221700145219\">equivalent to roughly 250 Bitcoin<\/a>, a nearly 95% decrease from the outflows at the start of the week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 GBTC Selling Over?<\/p>\n<p>GBTC with just 250 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> in outflows ($18.5M)<\/p>\n<p>Down 95% from Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q7TyOMGuMC\">pic.twitter.com\/Q7TyOMGuMC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas | heyapollo.com (@thomas_fahrer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomas_fahrer\/status\/1778182221700145219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Not all in the red<\/h2>\n<p>In contrast to GBTC\u2019s outflows, other Bitcoin ETFs have seen significant inflows. The Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund recorded $76.3 million in inflows, BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust saw $33.3 million, the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF saw $24.3 million, and the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF had inflows of $7.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, bankrupt crypto lending firm Genesis <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/bankruptcy-law\/bankrupt-genesis-sold-gbtc-shares-to-acquire-32-041-bitcoin\">offloaded approximately 36 million GBTC shares<\/a> to acquire 32,041 Bitcoin. The daily GBTC outflows average across the past four months stands at $257.8 million, with the previous low being $22.4 million on February 26.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows Nasdaq-traded spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/nasdaqs-bitcoin-etfs-break-five-day-outflow-streak-with-15-4m-boost\/\">witnessed an inflow of $15.4 million<\/a>, marking a positive shift after five consecutive days of outflows. The downturn follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/us-sec-finally-approves-bitcoin-etfs\/\">recently approved U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs<\/a>\u00a0experiencing a day of record-breaking inflows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/bitcoin-etf-daily-inflows-breaks-1b\/\">exceeding $1 billion on Mar. 12.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/grayscale-bitcoin-trust-gbtc-outflows-decrease-bitcoin-price-rebounds\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) has experienced a significant decrease in outflows, coinciding with a rebound in the price of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}