Company: BTC
Filing Date: 2025-09-12
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0000950170-25-114372
Chunk: 35

Company: Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF
Filing Date: 2025-09-12
Form: 424B3
Chunk 35
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 “first to market” advantage over other digital assets. As of June 30, 2025, Bitcoin was the largest digital asset by market capitalization, as tracked by CoinMarketCap.com and had the largest user base and largest combined mining power. Despite this first to market advantage, as of June 30, 2025, the alternative digital assets tracked by CoinMarketCap.com had a total market-capitalization of approximately $3,072.1 billion (including the approximately $2.1 trillion market cap of Bitcoin), as calculated using market prices and total available supply of each digital asset, excluding stablecoins and tokens pegged to other assets. In addition, many consortiums and financial institutions are also researching and investing resources into private or permissioned blockchain platforms rather than open platforms like the Bitcoin Network. Competition from the emergence or growth of alternative digital assets and smart contracts platforms, such as Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche or Cardano, could have a negative impact on the demand for, and price of, Bitcoin and thereby adversely affect the value of the Shares.

In addition, some digital asset networks, including the Bitcoin Network, may be the target of ill will from users of other digital asset networks. For example, Litecoin is the result of a hard fork of Bitcoin. Some users of the Bitcoin Network may harbor ill will toward the Litecoin Network, and vice versa. These users may attempt to negatively impact the use or adoption of the Bitcoin Network.

Investors may also invest in Bitcoin through means other than the Shares, including through direct investments in Bitcoin and other financial vehicles, including securities backed by or linked to Bitcoin and digital asset financial vehicles similar to the Trust. The Trust and the Sponsor face competition with respect to the creation of competing exchange-traded spot Bitcoin products, among other digital asset vehicles. Whether the Trust is successful in maintaining its scale and achieving its intended competitive position may be impacted by a range of factors, including the Trust’s timing in entering the market relative to competing spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products and its fee structure relative to those competing products. The Trust’s competitors may also charge a substantially lower fee than the Sponsor Fee in an effort to achieve initial market acceptance and scale, which could cause investors to favor such competing products over the Trust.

If the Trust fails to continue to maintain or grow sufficient scale due to competition, the Sponsor may have difficulty raising sufficient revenue to cover the costs associated with maintaining the Trust and such shortfalls could impact the Sponsor’s ability to properly invest in robust ongoing operations and controls of the Trust to minimize the risk