Around 640,000 Bitcoins are currently held by US Bitcoin ETFs, according to data provided by on-chain analytics aggregator Crypto Quant. Grayscale CEO, Michael Sonnenshein, predicts that the majority of BTC ETFs will not survive the market race in the long term. Sonnenshein also highlighted that Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETF has the highest management fees at 1.5%, compared to other hedge funds like BlackRock, Ark Invest, and Fidelity, who aim to keep their fees below 0.5%. Sonnenshein attributes Grayscale’s higher fees to their 10-year track record in the industry.
Eleanor Ashworth is editor-in-chief at BTCNews. A Cambridge-trained journalist with 18 years across the Financial Times, Reuters and the Telegraph, she joined the crypto beat in 2017 after covering the Bank of England and HM Treasury. She holds the SABEW Best in Business award (2022) and was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards (2023). At BTCNews she sets the editorial line for Bitcoin and macro markets coverage, with a focus on institutional adoption, regulation and central-bank policy. Based in London.