Grayscale is experiencing significant criticism due to the ongoing market downturn triggered by the selling of its spot Bitcoin ETF product.
Grayscale is facing significant criticism from community members due to what many perceive as its sole responsibility for the recent decline in the market. Nic Carter, an advocate for Bitcoin, compares the Bitcoin ETF product GBTC from Grayscale to “a massive wrecking ball of toxic waste.”
Grayscale Investment’s GBTC Currently Underperforming
Grayscale has lagged behind competitors such as BlackRock and Fidelity Investments in terms of trading volume and net inflows since the SEC authorized eleven spot Bitcoin ETFs.
In the billions of dollars, the organization has experienced substantial outflows. Grayscale documented a significant outflow of $579.6 million on the fifth trading day, bringing the cumulative outflows from the platform to approximately $2.2 billion.
This occurs amid the company’s extensive Bitcoin transfers to numerous cryptocurrency exchanges, including Coinbase. Grayscale has deposited 63,991 Bitcoin, which, at the time of publication, were worth more than $2.68 billion based on the coin’s market price, as reported by Lookonchain. These actions could have incited responses from the cryptocurrency industry, resulting in widespread selloffs.
In capitalizing on the trend, Nic Carter of X describes the GBTC as “the most cursed financial instrument in history.” By including an image accompanied by the caption “the world if GBTC never existed,” he implied that the world would be a more favorable place in its absence.
At a time when Grayscale was once lauded by industry titans as the primary catalyst that prompted the market to accept spot Bitcoin ETFs, these criticisms are now being directed in the opposite direction.
Declining Bitcoin Value And Increasing Skepticism
Assumably, the occurrences about Grayscale have played a role in the downward trajectory of the Bitcoin price, as some market analysts have speculated. According to Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital, the recent decline in the price of Bitcoin is partly attributable to significant sales of GBTC shares.
Bitcoin peaked at $46,000 earlier this month and is trading at $39,829.11, a decrease of 4.62% over the past twenty-four hours. Jim Cramer, the presenter of CNBC Mad Money, is extremely pessimistic regarding the likelihood that Bitcoin will recover from its recent low.
Cramer drew attention to the inconsistencies in the sudden increase in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) before the introduction of spot Bitcoin ETF, which many believed would be the catalyst for a new all-time high.
Bitcoin, in which numerous proponents had placed great confidence, is underperforming compared to expectations, and Grayscale is being held accountable by those who hold this view.