Company: BTC
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-029405
Chunk: 65

Company: Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 65
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 deposit an accepted government-issued currency into their account with the spot market, or a previously acquired digital asset, before they can purchase or sell assets on the spot market. The process of establishing an account with a centralized Bitcoin market and trading Bitcoin is different from, and should not be confused with, the process of users sending Bitcoin from one Bitcoin address to another Bitcoin address on the Blockchain or decentralized on-chain trading platforms. This latter process is an activity that occurs on the Bitcoin Network, while the former is an activity that occurs entirely within the order book operated by the centralized spot market. The centralized spot market typically records the investor’s ownership of Bitcoin in its internal books and records, rather than on the Blockchain. The centralized spot market ordinarily does not transfer Bitcoin to the investor on the 

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Blockchain unless the investor makes a request to the Digital Asset Trading Platform to withdraw the Bitcoin in their account to an off-exchange Bitcoin wallet.  

See “—Bitcoin Value” below for a discussion of historical spot Bitcoin prices on Digital Asset Trading Platforms and how such prices may differ from the Index Price.   

Outside of the spot markets, Bitcoin can be traded over-the-counter (“OTC”). The OTC market is largely institutional in nature, and OTC market participants generally consist of institutional entities, such as firms that offer two-sided liquidity for Bitcoin, investment managers, proprietary trading firms, high-net-worth individuals that trade Bitcoin on a proprietary basis, entities with sizable Bitcoin holdings, and family offices. The OTC market provides a relatively flexible market in terms of quotes, price, quantity, and other factors, although it tends to involve large blocks of Bitcoin. The OTC market has no formal structure and no open-outcry meeting place. Parties engaging in OTC transactions will agree upon a price—often via phone or email—and then one of the two parties will initiate the transaction. For example, a seller of Bitcoin could initiate the transaction by sending the Bitcoin to the buyer’s Bitcoin address. The buyer would then wire U.S. dollars to the seller’s bank account. OTC trades are sometimes hedged and eventually settled with concomitant trades on Bitcoin spot markets.  

In addition, Bitcoin futures and options trading occurs on exchanges in the U.S. regulated by the CFTC. The market for CFTC regulated trading of Bitcoin derivatives has developed substantially. Through the common membership of NYSE Arca and the CME Bitcoin Futures market in the Intermarket Surveillance Group (“ISG”), NYSE Arca may obtain information regarding trading in the Shares and listed