A backdoor way to play GBTC is via the ARKW ETF. GBTC represents 7% of ARKW. ARKW is up 85% this year vs 35% for its closest competitor, the FDN ETF. If you want to really play games and juice the returns, buy ARKW on margin, and short or buy puts on an identical amount of FDN. That will really isolate GBTC from the rest of the Web stocks.
Both ARKW and FDN have bid/ask spreads of less than 0.2%
Both ARKW and FDN have bid/ask spreads of less than 0.2%