At This Rate Grayscale Will Own 3.4% of All Bitcoin by January

Published at: June 26, 2020

Grayscale Investments has purchased almost half a billion dollars in Bitcoin since the May block reward halving, and this week bought BTC around three times faster than miners could produce blocks.

According to a June 25 tweet from crypto analyst Kevin Rooke, the investment firm bought 19,879 Bitcoin (BTC) — $184 million worth — in the last week for its Bitcoin Trust, bringing its total number of coins to roughly 400,000.

Unbelievable.Grayscale added 19,879 BTC to their Bitcoin Trust since last week (53,588 BTC since the halving).Bitcoin miners only produced 7,081 BTC since last week (39,544 BTC since halving).That's almost 400,000 BTC under management for $GBTC pic.twitter.com/aMtSGHZnz2

— Kevin Rooke (@kerooke) June 25, 2020

Rooke stated that not only is Grayscale buying massive amounts of the cryptocurrency, but it’s now doing so at a rate roughly 280% of the new Bitcoin mined. Twitter user Hodlonaut pointed out:

“Grayscale *alone* has taken all BTC mined + 14,000 more BTC off the table since the halving.”

Grayscale is cornering the market

At the moment, there are 18.415 million BTC in circulation, with the rest presumed lost. Grayscale has bought 53,588 BTC in total since the May 11 halving, equating to an average of 1,190 BTC per day. If it keeps buying at this same daily rate it will own 3.4% of the world’s BTC supply (625,069 BTC) by January 2021 — and 10% by the time of the next halving in 2024.

Grayscale founder Barry Silbert suggested in May that the fund would be ramping up its purchases in the second quarter and it appears he’s a man of his word. 

The investment firm announced that it had $4.1 billion in assets under management as of June 25, which means Grayscale’s value has nearly doubled from $2.1 billion in May 2019.

Stocking up on Ether too

Grayscale’s Ethereum Fund (ETHE) owns $396 million in Ether. Cointelegraph reported that Grayscale had purchased $110 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) in 2020 as of June 5.

However, while ETHE shares surged over 800% in early June with trades testing $250, they   crashed by 50% just days later before settling near $100. 

Source: TradingView

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