You Won’t Believe How Many Days BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Has Been Winning

In the grand and occasionally baffling Discworld of finance, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) has chalked up 18 days in a row of positive inflows. For those who don’t speak high finance, that means money is oozing in like cream through a sieve, and very little is coming out (except, perhaps, optimism).

Just yesterday, Thursday, $69 million migrated into IBIT. To put that into perspective, it’s enough cash to fill a swimming pool that no insurance agent would ever approve. Collectively, net assets are now staggering perilously close to $63 billion, which is enough for every Ankh-Morporkian to hire their own qualified assassin. Twice.

The rest of the Bitcoin ETF family is also wearing their best “green is good” hats, netting a collective $117 million in inflows. Alas, every gathering has its awkward uncle and this time it’s Grayscale’s GBTC, which managed to misplace $23 million. Somewhere, a Grayscale accountant is probably stress-eating banana peels. 🍌

Meanwhile, if you squint really hard, the Bitcoin price itself seems almost eager to hit another record—currently preening at $103,633 over on Bitstamp. That’s a mere hop, skip, and financial wizard’s flight away (less than 5%, if you must count) from its all-time high of nearly $109,000, reached back in late January, when everyone was still pretending to care about New Year’s resolutions.

Stay tuned. If these numbers get any bigger, they’ll have to invent new numbers. 📈💰

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2025-05-09 11:13