Spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have amassed greater than 900,000 BTC since their launch and can quickly surpass the 1.1 million BTC held in wallets believed to be owned by Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas lately shared an inventory of spot Bitcoin ETF holdings, highlighting their cumulative 916,047 BTC stash as of Sept. 24.
He famous that the ETFs are near surpassing the 1 million BTC threshold cumulatively and simply 17% shy of surpassing Nakamoto’s estimated stash.
On the present worth of $63,622.03, reaching 1 million BTC equates to over $63.6 billion.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Belief ETF (IBIT) holds the largest quantity among the many US-traded funds, with 358,080 BTC, whereas Grayscale’s ETFs, GBTC and Grayscale Mini Belief (BTC), collectively maintain 258,671 BTC.
Rounding out the highest 3 is Constancy’s ETF FBTC, which holds 184,490 BTC. Collectively, these three Bitcoin ETFs characterize practically 86% of the BTC held by 11 US-traded ETFs.
Shaun Edmondson, writer of the checklist shared by Balchunas, famous that Constancy holds roughly 100,000 BTC as a custodian for MicroStrategy. Nonetheless, these weren’t included within the report.
Notably, BlackRock added practically 530 BTC to its wallets over the previous 24 hours, based on on-chain information. The final time the asset supervisor purchased Bitcoin was one week in the past, by a 273 BTC switch from Coinbase Prime vaults.
4 consecutive days of inflows
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) reached $17.8 billion in complete flows on Sept. 24, as per Farside Traders’ information.
This new mark was reached after 4 consecutive days of inflows, which totaled roughly $391 million. Constancy’s FBTC led the cost by registering $117.7 million in optimistic flows.
BlackRock’s IBIT adopted intently with $110.4 million in inflows, regardless of not registering exercise in two out of the 4 final buying and selling days. The numerous quantity is then as a result of practically $99 million in money flowing to IBIT yesterday.
ARK 21Shares’ ARKB wrapped up the checklist of Bitcoin ETFs with over $100 million in inflows, exhibiting $103.1 million in optimistic web flows in 4 buying and selling days.
