{"id":4317,"date":"2024-12-16T22:09:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2024-12-16T22:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:09:51","slug":"if-you-invested-1000-in-bitcoin-when-the-first-bitcoin-etf-was-filed-heres-how-much-youd-have-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"If You Invested $1,000 In Bitcoin When The First Bitcoin ETF Was Filed, Here&#8217;s How Much You&#8217;d Have Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission approved spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024, which was a groundbreaking move at the time. The Bitcoin ETFs continue to see huge inflows months<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42393396\/record-week-bitcoin-etfs-net-25-billion-in-inflows-ethereum-etfs-took-in-12-billion\"> after their launch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look back at the multi-year battle to get Bitcoin ETFs approved and how much investors could have made buying <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) when the first ETF was filed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>What Happened:<\/strong>\u00a0Investors celebrated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/01\/36514679\/wall-street-enters-the-crypto-age-sec-issues-historic-approval-of-spot-bitcoin-etfs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the approval of\u00a0<\/a>Bitcoin ETFs earlier this year, with the SEC approving the first applications for many ETF<\/span>s.<\/p>\n<p>The approval opened the door for more investors, including institutional investors and retirement accounts, to get exposure to the leading cryptocurrency through the launched ETFs.<\/p>\n<p>Months after launch, Bitcoin ETFs are seeing strong inflows, which could be thanks in part to new optimism for the cryptocurrency sector after the 2024 election. Bitcoin hit new all-time highs<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/41778425\/bitcoins-all-time-high-a-groundbreaking-milestone-and-strong-post-election-rally-coming-ex\"> after the 2024 election<\/a> and recently surpassed the $100,000 milestone<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42336184\/exclusive-bitcoin-crossing-100000-is-a-defining-moment-experts-say\"> for the first time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $2.5 billion, bringing the year-to-date total to more than $36 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the top Bitcoin ETFs today by assets under management, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/etfdb.com\/themes\/bitcoin-etfs\/\">ETFdb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/IBIT#NASDAQ\">IBIT<\/a>): $53.9 billion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grayscale Bitcoin Trust <\/strong>(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/GBTC#NYSE\">GBTC<\/a>): $21.5 billion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund <\/strong>(BATS:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/FBTC#BATS\">FBTC<\/a>): $21.0 billion<\/li>\n<li><strong>ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF<\/strong> (BATS:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/ARKB#BATS\">ARKB<\/a>): $4.9 billion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bitwise Bitcoin ETF<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/BITB#NYSE\">BITB<\/a>): $4.1 &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/12\/42519107\/if-you-invested-1000-in-bitcoin-when-the-first-bitcoin-etf-was-filed-heres-how-much-youd-have-today\" alt=\"If\" you invested in bitcoin when the first etf was filed here how much have today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission approved spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024, which was a groundbreaking move at the time. The Bitcoin ETFs continue to see huge inflows months after their launch. Here&#8217;s a look back at the multi-year battle to get Bitcoin ETFs approved and how much investors could have made buying Bitcoin (CRYPTO: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}