GABI-a watershed event in institutional BTC investment

[BTCtrader71]

And what? You think he's going to be nice enough to donate those to the hedgefund?

The Winklevii are using their own coins to get their ETF off the ground. Assuming Masters has a big chunk of starting capital (and I don't actually know whether he does or not) why would he do differently?

[windjc]

I would like to add:

how much actual fresh fiat money do you think came into the exchanges during the last bubble? 10 million? 50 million? 100 million? 200 million? A billion?

I think, based on conversations I had with Bitfinex about money coming in during November 2013, that extrapolated across all the exchanges it was likely less than $250 million (I actually think it was less than 200 million) that took the price from $125 to $1100.

Remember as well, that the bubble literally started 1 week after SecondMarket opened and during the run up - Secondmarket and Pantera were buying a significant amount (less than 100 million though).

So what do you expect to have happen when hedge funds start popping up around the world?  The first gold ETF took in 1 billion in investment in its first 3 days 10 years ago. That was 1 fund.

I cannot see how this is not the catalyst for the next bubble.

[windjc]

And what? You think he's going to be nice enough to donate those to the hedgefund?

The Winklevii are using their own coins to get their ETF off the ground. Assuming Masters has a big chunk of starting capital (and I don't actually know whether he does or not) why would he do differently?

Because a Hedge Fund is not an ETF.

The question is WHY WOULD HE?

[BTCtrader71]

And what? You think he's going to be nice enough to donate those to the hedgefund?

The Winklevii are using their own coins to get their ETF off the ground. Assuming Masters has a big chunk of starting capital (and I don't actually know whether he does or not) why would he do differently?

Because a Hedge Fund is not an ETF.

The question is WHY WOULD HE?

Look, I'm not trying to downplay the significance of this. I think it's huge. Risto at one point calculated that every $1 of new money invested into bitcoin results in some very large (much larger than $1) rise in btc market cap. (I want to say a multiplier of 10 but I don't remember; that could be way off base.) I just tire of the logic behind "OMG what if he puts a single $200M buy order into the fifth largest exchange right now, the price would be 100 gazillion OMG OMG OMG!!"

Unless this guy is an idiot, the $200M purchase will be spread out over a long time period, and we can't assume that time period necessarily starts Aug 1. That's all I'm saying.

I don't know enough about the difference between hedge funds versus ET funds to know why it would make sense for the fund originator to pre-purchase the asset for the latter type of fund but not the former. Care to explain?

[Wary]

Risto at one point calculated that every $1 of new money invested into bitcoin results in some very large (much larger than $1) rise in btc market cap. (I want to say a multiplier of 10 but I don't remember; that could be way off base.)

According to windjc's numbers, this coefficent is over 60. (200 Millions of fresh money increased bitcoin capitalization on 13 billion $). I don't remember Risto's number as well, but I think it was in 10-20 range.

EDIT:

Unless this guy is an idiot, the $200M purchase will be spread out over a long time period

The problem is he may not have long enough time. If he'll try to buy 1KBTC a day, as it was suggested, it may take the whole year. The prices won't wait for him.

[Biodom]

Risto at one point calculated that every $1 of new money invested into bitcoin results in some very large (much larger than $1) rise in btc market cap. (I want to say a multiplier of 10 but I don't remember; that could be way off base.)

According to windjc's numbers, this coefficent is over 60. (200 Millions of fresh money increased bitcoin capitalization on 13 billion $). I don't remember Risto's number as well, but I think it was in 10-20 range.

EDIT:

Unless this guy is an idiot, the $200M purchase will be spread out over a long time period

The problem is he may not have long enough time. If he'll try to buy 1KBTC a day, as it was suggested, it may take the whole year. The prices won't wait for him.

I am sure 200mil is just a start. CALPERS is a single pension fund with 288bil in investments. 0.5% of such fund is 1.44bil.
Alternative investments are typically up to ~5-10%, so 0.5% is not unrealistic (eventually, of course), representing just 10% of alternative investments.
There will not be enough bitcoins for all of these guys (at the current price range).

[hyphymikey]

So now we will have a Trust, an ETF, and now a hedge fund. This is happening awfully quick. Better get all the coins you want while you can.

[knight22]

They sure do have a neat promotional video. Can't wait to see what will come out of this.

http://vimeo.com/97754141

[theonewhowaskazu]

They sure do have a neat promotional video. Can't wait to see what will come out of this.

http://vimeo.com/97754141

Wow this video almost implies that they have a fairly large degree of government support or at least cooperation. I guess that's what you get when you're a big hedge fund in a relatively small economy.

[CMMPro]

I don't think that these funds will have the luxury of time...

Look at Second Market for example....when an investor decides to invest with them, they have to purchase a nominal amount of bitcoin within a reasonable time to back the investment. It's simply a part of their fund rules and reg environment.

They can maybe delay the purchase for 7 days to wait for a drop in order to get a deal for the fund.


Also, much larger time constraints will add pressure as well....they can't take a year to buy $200m in bitcoin, at some time period the normal "price growth" will outstrip the risk of "price slippage"...and what happens if there is another peak before they are "all in", now they have greater "opportunity cost" losses.  

There is a delicate balance if you want to drop that much capital into bitcoin without either being the cause of your own price slippage, losing out to the average log10() growth, or missing the next big peak.

[gr8n8]

I always wonder who is making all the big buys when i see those big green bars.
we can only hope big green bars become more frequent

[Bagatell]

They're regulated, what could possibly go wrong?