cryptonews: The FTX Debtors management team is suing Digital Currency Group over its longstanding refusal to allow its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust investors to redeem their funds. 👀
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and other token investment trusts were at one point the only way for institutional investors to invest in bitcoin without custodying it. For several years, its shares were worth 20% to 30% more than the value of the Bitcoin that GBTC held. In March 2021, as other investment options appeared, that flipped to a discount that's grown to almost 45%.
"Our goal is to unlock value that we believe is currently being suppressed by Grayscale's self-dealing and improper redemption ban," said FTX Debtors CEO John Ray III, in a statement on March 6. "FTX customers and creditors will benefit from additional recoveries, along with other Grayscale Trust investors that are being harmed by Grayscale's actions."
FTX cited the 2% administrator's fee, saying Grayscale had "extracted over $1.3 billion in exorbitant management fees in violation of the Trust agreements," while it "has for years hidden behind contrived excuses" to stop shareholders from redeeming their shares. It added: "If Grayscale reduced its fees and stopped improperly preventing redemptions, the FTX Debtors' shares would be worth at least $550 million, approximately 90% more than the current value of the FTX Debtors' shares today."That discount is something that Grayscale parent Digital Currency Group blames on the Securities and Exchange Commission over the agency's refusal to allow the trust to become an exchange traded fund .
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