Bitcoin is scarcer than gold but trades at a tenth of its value. In 2025, with institutional adoption booming and chart ...

TheStreet Roundtable's Mehab Qureshi breaks down how Wall Street’s fastest-growing ETF just outpaced gold and the S&P 500.

Bitcoin soared 155% in 2023. Much of the gain followed BlackRock's surprising June filing for a bitcoin ETF. Bitcoin went from trading at a low of around $25,500 on June 15 to about $46,000 now.

Gold ETFs vs. Bitcoin ETFs Netflows – Jan 11 to Feb 27 2024. The divergence has been exacerbated by falling gold prices in 2024. The commodity has lost 3.4% since the beginning of the year, ...

Bloomberg Intelligence showed that the U.S. Bitcoin ETFs broke over $100B for the first time, recording total assets of $104B against $121.65B for Gold ETFs. The U.S. Bitcoin ETFs had a net inflow ...

At the time of writing, Bitcoin ETFs managed $107 billion, 86% of gold ETFs’ $130 billion total. With $3.3 billion in inflows last week, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has emerged as ...

Market benchmarks like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF saw big dips from January 1 to April 15, 2025: The SPDR fund fell 7.99% during that time while the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF slid an even deeper 10%.

Gold exchange-traded funds are outperforming Bitcoin ETFs in 2025, with the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) posting a 24.4% year-to-date return compared to 14.5% for the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT ...

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds allow investors to gain exposure to the token without buying the actual coin. Bitcoin has been called "digital gold" given its limited supply and reputation as a ...

Like gold ETFs, a bitcoin ETF would make it significantly easier for a broader range of investors to gain exposure to bitcoin. It eliminates the need for investors to directly buy and store bitcoin.

He said he expected the first spot bitcoin ETFs on the scene to see a "wave of buying," echoing the launch of the first ever gold ETF in 2006 in the U.S. or the bitcoin futures ETF in 2021.

Even if bitcoin eclipses gold ETFs in terms of assets, it might be in the “distant future," according to Armour, who said that “getting to gold ETF’s $90 billion in assets requires wider ...