Rothschild Investment Corp. Has Acquired Another $700,000 in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Fund

Rothschild Investment Corporation now owns 30,354 shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) valued at $975,000 according to a quarterly holdings report it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday morning. Chicago-based Rothschild first began buying GBTC shares in 2017 and […]

article-image

Joey B. Lax-Salinas / JoeyBLS Photography

share

Rothschild Investment Corporation now owns 30,354 shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) valued at $975,000 according to a quarterly holdings report it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday morning.

Chicago-based Rothschild first began buying GBTC shares in 2017 and previously reported owning 24,500 shares as of July 24, with total holdings valued at $269,000 as of Sept. 30.

Via Joey B. Lax-Salinas

Rothschild manages $1.4 billion and provides investment advisory services for 1,405 clients. 

Interest in bitcoin from institutional investors has grown significantly over the last year; billionaire investors Paul Tudor Jones, Stanley Druckenmiller and Bill Miller have come out as bitcoin bulls; S&P Dow Jones Indices revealed plans to launch cryptocurrency indexing services in 2021 for more than 550 of the top traded coins; insurance giant MassMutual bought $100 million of bitcoin. 

Last year, public companies held fewer than 20,000 BTC on their balance sheets, according to according to digital asset analyst Kevin Rooke. That’s grown to 105,837 BTC this year, valued at over $3.6 billion, held by 19 public companies.

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust invests solely and passively in bitcoin. It’s currently priced at $34.45 per share with a 261.49 percent return over the last 12 months. 

Tags

    Decoding crypto and the markets. Daily, with Byron Gilliam.

    Upcoming Events

    Old Billingsgate

    Mon - Wed, October 13 - 15, 2025

    Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit (DAS) will feature conversations between the builders, allocators, and legislators who will shape the trajectory of the digital asset ecosystem in the US and abroad.

    recent research

    Research Report Templates.png

    Research

    Pipe Network is a decentralized content delivery network (dCDN) that replaces the sparse, capital intensive data center footprint of traditional CDNs with a permissionless mesh of independent node operators. By orchestrating under-utilized resources that already exist at the edge, rather than purchasing or leasing thousands of servers, Pipe slashes capital intensity while letting supply expand autonomously in the places where bandwidth is scarcest and most expensive.

    article-image

    Fiscal dominance isn’t about interest rates and it isn’t about Trump, either

    article-image

    Firestarter Storage brings decentralized storage and delivery to Solana

    article-image

    After lengthy closing arguments on Wednesday, the case is now in the hands of 12 jurors

    article-image

    Analysts cite weak trading volume and regulatory progress as factors

    article-image

    Builders weigh in on Ethereum’s first decade and the decisions that will define its next one

    article-image

    Closing arguments set to kick off Wednesday after Tuesday’s testimony from two expert witnesses and an a16z partner