Company: BTC
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-029405
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Company: Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
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The Initial Distribution

On July 31, 2024, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF (“GBTC”) completed its previously announced pro rata distribution of 60,738,020 Shares of the Trust (retroactively adjusted to reflect the 1-for-5 Reverse Share Split of the Trust’s issued and outstanding Shares completed on November 19, 2024) to the shareholders of GBTC as of July 30, 2024 (the “Record Date”), as described in GBTC’s definitive information statement on Schedule 14C, filed with the SEC on July 30, 2024 (referred to as the “Initial Distribution”). In connection therewith, on July 31, 2024, GBTC contributed to the Trust an amount of Bitcoin equal to 10% of the total Bitcoin held by GBTC as of the Record Date, equal to 26,935.83753443 Bitcoin, as consideration and in exchange for the issuance of Shares of the Trust.

Subject to the limitations and qualifications set forth in GBTC’s definitive information statement on Schedule 14C, filed with the SEC on July 30, 2024 (including with respect to the qualification of both GBTC and the Trust as grantor trusts for U.S. federal income tax purposes and the proper allocation of existing tax basis between GBTC shares and Shares of the Trust), it is expected that neither GBTC nor any beneficial owner of GBTC shares will recognize any gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of the Initial Distribution. Accordingly, it is expected that neither GBTC’s contribution of Bitcoin to the Trust nor GBTC’s distribution of Shares in the Trust to shareholders as of 4:00 PM ET on the Record Date will be reported to any beneficial owner of GBTC shares (or to any intermediary holding GBTC shares) as giving rise to income, gain, loss, deduction, credit or proceeds. Any beneficial owner of GBTC shares who received Shares of the Trust in the Initial Distribution, and any intermediary holding GBTC shares or Shares of the Trust, should consult their own tax advisor regarding the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Initial Distribution, including 

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the proper allocation of existing tax basis between GBTC shares and Shares of the Trust. Please refer to GBTC’s definitive information statement on Schedule 14C, filed with the SEC on July 30, 2024, for more information, including other U.S. federal income tax considerations relating