{"id":48935,"date":"2021-09-06T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48935"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:58:15","slug":"bill-millers-fund-flags-potential-for-bitcoin-to-become-digital-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bill-millers-fund-flags-potential-for-bitcoin-to-become-digital-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Miller&#8217;s fund flags potential for Bitcoin to become digital gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Society is at an early stage of Bitcoin adoption, with its capitalization set to match gold&#8217;s overall market value. This is stated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1261788\/000110465921112833\/tm2125486d1_ncsrs.htm\">\u043e\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0442\u0435<\/a> Miller Opportunity Trust for the <span data-descr=\"Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In August the fund <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bill-millers-miller-opportunity-trust-reveals-a-45m-stake-in-grayscale-bitcoin-trust\">disclosed information<\/a> about the purchase of 1.5 million shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) worth $44.7 million as of June 30. The instrument&#8217;s share of the fund&#8217;s total assets was 1.55%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-120.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Miller's billionaire fund notes potential for Bitcoin as digital gold\" class=\"wp-image-148355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-120.jpg 497w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-120-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><figcaption>Structure of Miller Opportunity Trust investments. Data: SEC.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cBitcoin will remain volatile. But we deem the risk-reward ratio attractive. In the future we expect Bitcoin\u2019s capitalization to reach gold\u2019s benchmark of $11 trillion.\u201d<\/em>, the document states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The factor driving GBTC purchases was the observed discount of the instrument&#8217;s price to Bitcoin quotes. In May it <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/grayscales-gbtc-discount-exceeds-20\">exceeded 20%<\/a>. As of writing, it stands at 13.07%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-453.png\" alt=\"GBTC premium\/discount to NAV dynamics\" class=\"wp-image-148356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-453.png 1020w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-453-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-453-768x217.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption>GBTC premium\/discount to NAV dynamics. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/GBTC\/discount_or_premium_to_nav\">yCharts<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u0412 April 2021, Bill Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bill-miller-bitcoin-is-not-a-bubble-volatility-is-the-price-of-its-advantages\">stated that digital gold is not a bubble<\/a>, and called volatility the price you pay for the advantages of the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bill-miller-calls-the-current-bitcoin-decline-a-trifling-matter\">described as trivial<\/a> the drop in Bitcoin\u2019s price <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-falls-below-35000\">in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Society is at an early stage of Bitcoin adoption, with its capitalization set to match gold&#8217;s overall market value, according to the Miller Opportunity Trust report to the SEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1698,18,536,1214],"class_list":["post-48935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bill-miller","tag-bitcoin","tag-gold","tag-grayscale-bitcoin-trust"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48937,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48935\/revisions\/48937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}