GBTC ‘discount’ hits smallest since 2021 despite BTC price at 3-month lows
Bitcoin sits in the shade as the GBTC share price creeps ever closer to 1:1 against the BTC price.
Grayscale’s Bitcoin investment vehicle, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), now trades at just 17% below BTC price parity.
The latest data from monitoring resource CoinGlass confirms that as of Sept. 9, GBTC shares traded at 17.17% less than BTC/USD.
GBTC retraces nearly two years of losses
GBTC, Bitcoin’s (BTC) largest institutional investment vehicle, has seen its fortunes improve significantly since news that BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said it planned to file an application for the United States’ first Bitcoin spot price-based exchange-traded fund (ETF).
This was music to the ears of Grayscale executives, who were already in the middle of a legal battle with United States regulators over turning GBTC itself into a spot ETF.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to approve a single spot ETF application, recently delaying a decision on multiple projects.
Despite this, Grayscale last month won a key face-off with the SEC, securing a welcome industry boost, which further buoyed GBTC price performance.
GBTC shares’ discount to Bitcoin’s price — once a surplus referred to as the “GBTC Premium” — was just 17.17% on Sept. 9, marking its best level since December 2021.
The premium has been negative, known as a discount to net asset value, ever since. At one point, it reached nearly 50%.
No joy for Bitcoin bulls
GBTC has thus begun to diverge from BTC price strength, with the latter still sloping downhill as it retests levels rarely seen over the past six months.
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BTC price traded at under $25,500 at the time of writing, data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed, with the Wall Street open adding fuel to an already limp market.
As Cointelegraph reported, September tends to be a weak month for BTC/USD, which often loses up to 10%.
“September is historically a pretty bad month for #Bitcoin, that’s just the facts. October is historically very bullish,” popular trader and analyst CryptoCon told X followers in part of commentary on Sept. 11.
CryptoCon added a chart flagging late November as a key time to watch for signs of life from Bitcoin during prehalving years.
This echoes an existing theory that gives Nov. 28 as the “bull run launch” date for Bitcoin price once every four years.
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