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BlackRock’s IBIT Bleeds $2 Billion in Nine Straight Days of Outflows
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) lost another $269.7 million on Wednesday, its ninth straight session of redemptions, as U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds posted a fifth consecutive day of net outflows totaling $299.8 million.
Across the nine sessions since Oct. 30, IBIT has shed about $2 billion. The fund, the largest of the U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs, has seen money leave on every trading day so far in November.
The broader group has fared only slightly better. The 11 funds have lost about $1.44 billion over the past five trading days and roughly $1.88 billion in November, with outflows on seven of the month’s eight sessions. The lone exception was Nov. 4, when $74.6 million came in, even as IBIT itself bled $201.2 million that day.
IBIT accounts for about $1.77 billion of November’s outflows, or roughly 94% of the total.
Wednesday’s selling was concentrated. Besides IBIT, Grayscale’s GBTC lost $39.1 million, while Morgan Stanley’s MSBT was the only fund to take in money, about $9 million. The rest of the funds reported no flows.
IBIT streak still short of this year’s worst
The current run is not a record. Both the group and IBIT went 13 straight trading days without an inflow from May 15 to June 3, the longest outflow streaks of 2026. IBIT followed that with an 11-session streak from June 17 to July 2.
Still, the size of the recent withdrawals stands out. IBIT’s two largest daily outflows of the year both came this month: $405.3 million on Nov. 2 and $403 million on Nov. 6.
The selling has also flipped the year. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs are now down about $1.42 billion in net flows for 2026, compared with roughly $25.2 billion of inflows at the same point last year. The Australian Financial Review noted Thursday that the selling has erased this year’s net inflows into the funds.
IBIT is still positive for the year, with about $2.45 billion in net inflows in 2026 and roughly $64.5 billion since it launched in January 2024. That cushion has shrunk quickly. IBIT took in about $932 million in October, and November’s withdrawals have already erased that amount nearly twice over.
The withdrawals come just days after BlackRock argued that security fears were driving bitcoin whales out of self-custody and into IBIT.
Why bitcoin ETF investors are pulling back
The outflows began before this week’s worst headlines but have picked up alongside them. A hotter-than-expected October inflation report on Tuesday lifted bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike in December, and Polymarket odds of a hike climbed to about 97%, Yahoo Finance reported. Higher rates make cash and bonds more attractive relative to assets like bitcoin.
Tech stocks have added pressure. Nvidia shares fell roughly 9% after Wednesday’s close following reports that its board was preparing to remove CEO Jensen Huang, and Nasdaq 100 futures slid with them. Nvidia has not announced a decision. Bitcoin has traded closely with tech shares this year.
Index provider MSCI also confirmed after Wednesday’s close that it will remove Strategy (MSTR) from its indexes after Nov. 30, a decision that forces tracking funds to sell shares of the largest corporate bitcoin holder.
Bitcoin traded near $72,800 early Thursday, close to Tuesday’s low of about $72,700, its weakest level since Aug. 20. It is down roughly 6% over the past week.
ETF flows for Thursday will be reported after the close. The test now is whether IBIT snaps its streak before it matches the 13-day run from the spring, or whether the steady redemptions keep weighing on the bitcoin price heading into the Fed’s December meeting.
This post BlackRock’s IBIT Bleeds $2 Billion in Nine Straight Days of Outflows first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.
