"First Publicly Traded Bitcoin Fund Would Take ‘Backdoor Route’ to Launch" http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfun...oin-fund-would-take-backdoor-route-to-launch/ "BIT Poised to Become Publicly Traded Bitcoin Fund" www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-investment-trust-gets-finras-ok-to-become-public-bitcoin-fund-1425242094 "Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Investment Trust is poised to become the first publicly traded bitcoin fund, with approval and assignment of a ticker symbol by the financial industry’s main self-regulatory body paving the way for trading on an electronic platform operated by OTC Markets Group." WSJ article archived at https://archive.today/Nk80r Temporary symbol: BTCV Symbol they want: GBTC http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/GBTC/profile Quote from Fidelity https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/snapshot.jhtml?symbols=GBTC .
Quotes http://quotes.wsj.com/GBTC https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/snapshot.jhtml?symbols=GBTC http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/GBTC/profile Homepage for the trust: http://www.bitcointrust.co/ Shares outstanding http://bitcointrust.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Fact-Sheet_Dec.pdf 1,374,800 each share is 10% of a Bitcoin so equivalent to 137,480 Bitcoin Net asset value at $273.90 https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=BTCUSD=X&t=5d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c= $273.90 * 137,480 Bitcoin Net asset value $37.655 million .
In addition to GBTC, there is BTCS (Bitcoin Shop): http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/BTCS Yahoo Finance says the market cap is $40 million 30 Sept 2014 book value $846,845 (ie, under $1 million) Shares outstanding 153,186,804 9 months revenue $17,806 .
There is a similar ETN in Sweden http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/COINXBT:SS http://www.coindesk.com/swedens-nasdaq-exchange-approves-bitcoin-based-etn/ .