Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Buys Another $15M of its Spot Bitcoin ETF Shares
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest has continued to buy its own ARK 21Shares spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) worth $15 million.
Cathie Wood and Ark Invest's trade activity from today 1/18 pic.twitter.com/zFT4XXbstM
— Ark Invest Daily (@ArkkDaily) January 19, 2024
According to Ark Invest Daily, the firm’s ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) purchased 365,695 shares of ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) on Jan. 18. With Thursday’s closing price at $40.95, this most recent purchase is worth around $15 million.
Previously on Jan. 16, ARKW bought 365,427 shares of ARKB that amounted to 1% of ARKW’s holdings. Since the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the Bitcoin ETFs on the same day, it would not grant any ETF an early advantage. However, moving the money from one fund to another could help the ETF gain potential.
Cathie Wood and Ark Invest's trade activity from today 1/16 pic.twitter.com/RiBGT3BV8T
— Ark Invest Daily (@ArkkDaily) January 17, 2024
Bloomberg Intelligence claimed that funneling Ark Invest’s own money into ARKB is a measure taken to gain scale swiftly. The SEC’s approval has “set up an unusually high-stakes horse race, given that all the funds hold the same underlying asset.”
The spot Bitcoin ETF’s scale is “an important criteria for financial advisers and platforms, many of which have minimum-asset thresholds,” according to Bloomberg.
Ark Invest Director of Digital Assets Yassine Elmandjra has published a post on social media, stating that Bitcoin’s hash rate has hit an all-time high of 500 exahashes/s.
To address to that impressive number, Elmandjra made a few comparisons, saying, “For every star in our galaxy, the Bitcoin network is calculating 5 billion computations per second; It would take ~2000
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