Company: INVUP
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001193
Chunk: 1094

Company: Investview, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 1094
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 of dissatisfied customers, regardless of the legal foundation
associated therewith. The possible assertion of those claims could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and
operating results.

Risks
Related to our Blockchain Technology and Crypto Mining Products and Services

Our
success depends on external factors affecting the Bitcoin industry.

The
Bitcoin industry has historically been subject to various risks relating to Bitcoin, as an asset, which have adversely affected the market
price of Bitcoin. Ownership of Bitcoin has, historically, been concentrated in a relatively small number of persons or entities that,
collectively, hold a significant number of Bitcoin (referred to as “whales” in the Bitcoin industry). While ownership of
Bitcoin has diversified significantly in recent years, whales continue to exist whose market activity (e.g., sales of large numbers of
Bitcoin) could have an adverse effect on the demand for, and market price of Bitcoin, which could have an adverse effect on our business
and results of operation. Further, while larger, increasingly regulated exchanges with greater transparency and oversight have begun
to proliferate, the Bitcoin economy remains nascent and largely opaque. The venues for Bitcoin transactions may experience greater operational
problems and be exposed to a greater risk of facilitating unethical, fraudulent or illicit transactions (such as “wash trading”),
than traditional financial markets and securities exchanges. Digital asset trading platforms may also be susceptible to “front-running”
activity, which is the process by which someone uses technology or market advantage to obtain prior knowledge of upcoming transactions
allowing bad actors to take advantage of forthcoming price movement and make economic gains at the cost of those who introduced the transactions.
Front-running is a frequent activity on centralized and decentralized digital asset trading platforms. Further, venues for Bitcoin transactions
do not typically make complete information regarding their ownership structure, management teams, corporate practices, and regulatory
compliance available to the public, who are, therefore, unable to verify the impartiality of such venues in respect of the Bitcoin transactions
they facilitate. As a result of such lack of regulation and transparency, as well as the risk posed by Bitcoin whales, wash trading and
front-running, the public may lose confidence in Bitcoin transactions and the price integrity of the digital asset, which could adversely
affect the market price of Bitcoin, perhaps materially, which would have an adverse impact on our business and results of operations.

The
further development and acceptance of digital asset networks and other digital assets, which represent a new and rapidly changing industry,
are subject to a variety of factors