Company: DEFI
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001999371-25-003118
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Company: Tidal Commodities Trust I
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: POS AM
Chunk 46
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 be irretrievable, and as a result, any incorrectly executed bitcoin transactions could adversely affect the price and liquidity of bitcoin, which may indirectly affect the price and liquidity of the Bitcoin Futures Contracts and the Fund’s Shares.

Loss of access risks.

The loss or destruction of a private key required to access the Fund’s bitcoins may be irreversible. The loss of access to the private keys associated with the Fund’s bitcoins could adversely affect an investment in the Shares. Bitcoin is controllable only by the possessor of both the unique public key and private key or keys relating to the “digital wallet” in which the currency is held. Private keys must be safeguarded and kept private in order to prevent a third party from accessing the bitcoins while held in such wallet. To the extent a private key is lost, destroyed or otherwise compromised and no backup of the private key is accessible, the Fund will be unable to access the assets held in the related digital wallet. Any loss of private keys relating to digital wallets used to store the Fund’s bitcoins could adversely affect an investment in the Shares.

Environmental risks from Bitcoin mining.

Bitcoin mining currently requires computing hardware that consumes large amounts of electricity. By way of electrical power generation, many bitcoin miners rely on fossil fuels to power their operations. Public perception of the impact of bitcoin mining on climate change may reduce demand for bitcoin and increase the likelihood of regulation that limits bitcoin mining or restricts energy usage by bitcoin miners, which could result in a significant reduction in mining activity and adversely affect the security of the Bitcoin network and could adversely affect the price of bitcoin and the value of the Shares.

The “proof of work” validation mechanism used to verify transactions on the Bitcoin Network necessitates that bitcoin miners maintain high levels of computing power, which can require extremely high energy usage. Although measuring the electricity consumed by this process is difficult because these operations are performed by various machines with varying levels of efficiency, the process consumes a significant amount of energy. Further, in addition to the direct energy costs of performing these calculations, there are indirect costs that impact the Bitcoin Network’s total energy consumption, including the costs of cooling the machines that perform these calculations. A significant decrease in the computational resources dedicated to the Bitcoin Network’s validation protocol could reduce the security of the network which may erode bitcoin’s viability as a store of value or means of exchange.

Several alternative mechanisms to proof-of-work have emerged in recent years, aiming to offer more energy-efficient validation processes for blockchain networks and High costs of electricity may incentivize miners to redirect their capital and efforts to other validation