{"id":221454,"date":"2026-09-01T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=221454"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:35:17","slug":"blackrocks-ishares-bitcoin-trust-is-beating-top-sp-500-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=221454","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust Is Beating Top S&P 500 ETF\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust Is Beating Top S&P 500 ETF\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust exchange-traded fund has delivered better returns since its 2024 launch than Vanguard\u2019s popular S&P 500 fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to Bloomberg data highlighted by the firm\u2019s senior ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, who said that the BlackRock product\u2019s cumulative percentage return was only slightly ahead of Vanguard\u2019s in the time period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BlackRock\u2019s bitcoin ETF is up 71% since its January 2024 debut, while Vanguard\u2019s S&P 500 ETF up 66% on a total-return basis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hard to believe $IBIT<\/a> is beating $VOO<\/a> since inception but it’s true..altho it’s close. And to be fair, IBIT’s path to 70% looks like the El Toro roller coaster at Great Adventure (i needed two Advil last time I rode that thing) while $VOO<\/a> was a walk in the park in comparison.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/vpOgI7JZKL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) September 1, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The iShares Bitcoin Trust \u2014 IBIT \u2014 started trading in 2024 after the Securities and Exchange Commission gave the green light to 11 spot bitcoin ETFs following a decade of denials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIBIT\u2019s path to 70% looks like the El Toro roller coaster at Great Adventure (I needed two Advil last time I rode that thing) while $VOO was a walk in the park in comparison,\u201d wrote Balchunas on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

U.S. investors now have several funds to choose from to buy shares that track the price of bitcoin managed by the likes of Fidelity, Grayscale and Morgan Stanley. But BlackRock\u2019s product is the most successful: It currently manages $61.4 billion in assets, according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By comparison, the second biggest bitcoin ETF, the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, manages nearly $11 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BlackRock, which manages over $15 trillion in assets, sent shockwaves through the crypto space after it applied for a spot bitcoin ETF in 2023. Its fund now allows more traditional investors to get exposure to bitcoin; its product also experiences more day-to-day trading action than the other ETFs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Investors piled back into ETFs in August, which has also helped bitcoin\u2019s price. From August 17 to 27, investors threw over $2.8 billion at the vehicles \u2014 the most since October, when the coin hit a new all-time high.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitcoin reached as high as $81,281 last week before sliding again on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The price of the biggest cryptocurrency<\/a> recently stood at $77,539, nearly down 1% over a 24-hour period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitcoin started a phenomenal run two weeks ago \u2014 its best in three years \u2014 and is up nearly 30% over the past month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This post BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust Is Beating Top S&P 500 ETF\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust Is Beating Top S&P 500 ETF\u00a0 BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust exchange-traded fund has delivered better returns since its 2024 launch than Vanguard\u2019s popular S&P 500 fund.\u00a0 That\u2019s according to Bloomberg data highlighted by the firm\u2019s senior ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, who said that the BlackRock product\u2019s cumulative percentage return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":221455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}