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Bitcoin price falls after underwhelming inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs



CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa reports on the rough week for Bitcoin.

>>> A WEEK OUT FROM THE LAUNCH OF THOSE ETF BITCOINS AND THE PRICES HAVE FALLEN 11% SINCE THEN. DEIRDRE BOSA ON WHAT THAT MIGHT MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF THOSE FUNDS. >> THE RESULTS SO FAR, THEY’RE UNDERWHELMING. THE PRICE OF BITCOIN ITSELF HAS

FALLEN TO ITS LOWEST LEVEL SINCE S.E.C. APPROVAL. UNDERPERFORMING OTHER ASSET CLASSES LIKE GOLD BONDS AND GLOBAL EQUITIES. AS FOR INFLOWS, A LITTLE UNDERWHELMING, TOO. INVESTORS POUREDNEARLY $2 BILLION INTO THE NEW ETFs IN THE FIRST THREE DAYS. THAT FALLS SHORT OF AGGRESSIVE ESTIMATES FOR MARKET PLAYERS

THAT RANGE FROM $3 BILLION ON THE FIRST DAY ALONE TO $55 BILLION OVER FIVE YEARS. NOW, THE EARLY WINNERS AND LOSERS, THEY’RE EMERGING A WEEK ON. BLACKROCK AND FIDELITY ARE DRIVING EARLY CON SOP ADDITION WITH NEARLY 70% OF ALL INFLOWS. GRAYSCALE, MEANWHILE, HAS SEEN

MORE THAN $1.5 BILLION IN OUTFLOWS, PERHAPS FURTHER PRESSURING IT TO FURTHER FEES. IT HAS THE HIGHEST FEES BY FAR. OF COURSE, IT IS STILL VERY EARLY DAYS. AND THE BITCOIN — BITCOIN PRICE RALLIED SOME 160% LAST YEAR IN THE LEADUP TO ETF APPROVAL. BUT HISTORY TELLS US THAT

THEMATIC ETFs USUALLY LAUNCH AT PEAK PRICE. THE BITCOIN ETF WHICH LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER OF ’21, THAT TOPPED $1 BILLION IN ASSETS IN TWO DAYS. THOSE WHO BOUGHT IN GOT ON BITCOIN’S PEAK WHEN BITCOIN WAS WORTH ABOUT $61,000. THAT ETF FELL 72% IN ITS FIRST

YEAR AND TODAY IS STILL DOWN ABOUT 50% SINCE THAT LAUNCH. WE’VE SEEN SIMILAR ACTION IN THEMATIC ETFs FROM CANNABIS TO SPACE TO SPAC FUNDS OF 2021. INVESTORS PILE INTO THESE POPULAR IDEAS AT THEIR HIGHS AND FREQUENTLY END UP SELLING LOW. WE COULD BE SEEING THE SAME, AT

LEAST IN EARLY DAYS FOR BITCOIN. THERE’S ANOTHER ELEMENT TO THIS, GUYS. MAYBE MORE PHILOSOPHICAL. WHAT IF BITCOIN ACTUALLY LOST THE BIGGER BATTLE BY WINNING OVER WALL STREET, WINNING OVER WALL STREET’S ACCEPTANCE. MORE BITCOIN HELD IN FUNDS, THE LESS IT IS AVAILABLE FOR ACTUAL USERS.

AND ITS ORIGINAL CASE AS A DIGITAL CURRENCY, PUTTING THAT EVEN FARTHER AWAY. THROUGH ETF BITCOIN HAS SOLIDIFIED ITSELF AS A STORIER OF VALUE, BUT NOT AS A MEANS OF EXCHANGE, WHAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT FOR. WE COVERED THIS IN OUR “TECHCHECK” WEEKLY DEEP DIVE

WHICH YOU CAN FIND AT CNBC.COM/TCWEEKLY WITH SOME OF THE BEST SOUND SINCE THAT ETF WAS LAUNCHED. IT’S TAKEN SOME OF

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