
Grayscale Investments — the asset manager behind the world's biggest Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fund Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (OTC:GBTC) — raked in a hefty fee in 2021 for operating the fund.
What Happened: Jameson Lopp, a Bitcoin influencer and founder of a Bitcoin storage app called Casa, pointed out in a tweet that the "Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust collected 0.00001879 BTC per share in 2021 for expenses." This adds up to a total of 13,000 Bitcoin for the 692,370,100 outstanding fund shares — translating to "around half a billion dollars at the current exchange rate," according to Lopp.