BITMINE IMMERSION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
For the period ended Aug 31, 2025. Filed Nov 21, 2025.
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FY2025 · Filed Nov 21, 2025
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
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The principal risks that could materially and adversely affect us include, among others, the following, grouped by category for ease of reference:
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The summary above is qualified in its entirety by the more complete risk factors set forth below.
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Risks Related to Digital Asset Prices, Network Dynamics and Treasury Holdings
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Volatility in the prices of ETH and BTC may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Our revenues, gross margins, liquidity and ability to service obligations depend significantly on prevailing ETH prices and, less so, BTC prices. Prolonged or sharp price declines, or heightened volatility, may impede ETH ecosystem growth or render BTC mining activities unprofitable, reduce the carrying value and liquidity of digital assets held, and decrease investor demand for our securities.
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The future development and growth of digital assets are subject to a variety of factors that are difficult to predict and evaluate. If digital assets do not grow as we expect, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
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Digital assets built on blockchain technology were only introduced in 2008 and remain in the early stages of development. In addition, different digital assets are designed for different purposes. Ethereum, for instance, was designed to serve as a smart contract and decentralized application platform, while Bitcoin was designed to serve as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Many other blockchain networks, ranging from cloud computing to tokenized securities networks, have only recently been established. The further growth and development of any digital assets and their underlying networks and other cryptographic and algorithmic protocols governing the creation, transfer and usage of digital assets and related assets represent a new and evolving paradigm that is subject to a variety of factors that are difficult to evaluate, including:
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Various other technical issues have also been uncovered from time to time that resulted in disabled functionalities, exposure of certain users’ personal information, theft of users’ assets, and other negative consequences, and which required resolution with the attention and efforts of their global miner, user, and development communities. If any such risks or other risks materialize, and in particular if they are not resolved, the development and growth of digital assets may be significantly affected and, as a result, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
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Ethereum-specific market, technology and regulatory developments may adversely affect the value and liquidity of our ETH holdings and our Treasury Strategy.
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The Ethereum network is subject to rapidly evolving technology, competitive dynamics (including alternative Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks), and changing regulatory and market-structure frameworks. Adverse developments—including protocol upgrades with unintended consequences, forks or chain instability, validator concentration, consensus failures, smart contract vulnerabilities, L2 settlement failures, bridge exploits, or regulatory restrictions—could reduce the value or liquidity of ETH and impair our treasury strategy.
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Our digital asset treasury business model has multiple layers of corporate finance risks.
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Our ETH Treasury Strategy has multiple layers of risk based on corporate finance principles and blockchain mechanics, including but not limited to the following:
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Together, these risks form the structural challenges of our ETH Treasury Strategy. Its success depends on maintaining perpetual premium expansion in a market that is inherently cyclical.
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Our ETH Treasury Strategy and any decision to hold digital assets may increase our exposure to market volatility and potential uninsured losses.
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Market conditions and operational needs may necessitate longer holding periods, increasing exposure to price swings. If we hold ETH or other digital assets under our treasury strategy, we would be exposed to additional volatility, regulatory, and market structure risks specific to those assets. We are currently exposed to potential uninsured losses to the extent digital asset balances exceed the custodian’s applicable insurance coverage.
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Any ETH staking and related activities may expose us to slashing, lock-ups, liquidity, counterparty and operational risks.
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Staking requires operational reliability and adherence to protocol rules. Validators that act maliciously or suffer extended downtime can be “slashed,” resulting in a partial loss of staked principal. Staking may also involve unbonding or lock-up periods that reduce liquidity and flexibility, and, where conducted through third-party providers, introduces counterparty and operational risk. Liquid staking or restaking mechanisms may involve additional smart contract risk, rehypothecation or correlation risks, and market liquidity considerations for derivative tokens. Any failure in our validator operations or at a third-party staking provider could result in losses and reputational harm.
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Ethereum scaling via rollups and Layer 2 solutions introduces additional dependencies and risks.
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Many L2 networks rely on fraud proofs, validity proofs, sequencing, bridging contracts and centralized or semi-centralized governance during early phases. Security or operational failures at an L2 or bridge could lead to loss of funds, delays in withdrawals, or market dislocations affecting assets bridged to or from Ethereum. Our operations could be adversely affected by such disruptions, particularly if we hold or accept assets that are bridged or rely on L2 settlement pathways.
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Smart contract, bridge, oracle and protocol vulnerabilities could result in loss of digital assets or business interruption.
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Decentralized protocols and token standards underpin many Ethereum-based activities. Exploits or failures—whether in widely used standards, core protocol implementations, bridges, or oracles—can cause material losses or network instability. Even if we are not directly exposed to a compromised protocol, contagion effects can depress market prices, reduce liquidity, and disrupt counterparties or service providers on which we rely.
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Market structure and liquidity for ETH could deteriorate, impacting our ability to transact or to accurately value our holdings.
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We rely on a limited number of venues for price discovery and liquidity. Market events—including exchange or market-maker disruptions, de-platforming of digital asset participants by banks or service providers, stress in stablecoin markets, or regulatory actions that affect trading venues—could reduce liquidity and increase volatility. A lack of reliable liquidity may impair valuation, hedging, or the ability to rebalance our treasury.
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ETH price declines or prolonged underperformance versus other digital assets could adversely affect our financial position and capital access.
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Our strategy is focused on ETH as our primary treasury asset. Sustained price declines in ETH or underperformance relative to other assets could reduce the carrying value of our digital assets, increase the frequency or magnitude of impairment charges under applicable accounting policies, and diminish our ability to raise capital or maintain compliance with exchange listing standards.
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Restaking and correlated risk exposures may amplify losses during stress events.
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If we engage in restaking or similar activities that create stacked security obligations or re-use of staked collateral across protocols, we may face correlated losses across multiple positions in a single adverse event. Losses at one protocol could affect the security or liquidity of positions at another, and recovery pathways may be uncertain or prolonged.
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Concentration and governance risks in the Ethereum ecosystem could create systemic vulnerabilities.
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Concentration of validators among a small number of providers, reliance on a limited set of client implementations, or governance capture by large stakeholders could increase systemic risk. A critical bug in a dominant client, or adverse decisions by influential governance participants, could affect network stability, validator incentives, or ETH economics.
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Our ability to earn mining rewards may decline and our revenues could be materially reduced.
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The mining industry is competitive, and rapid deployments by competitors, access to lower-cost power, or availability of next-generation ASICs may increase hash rate and difficulty and outpace our growth or efficiency gains.
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Our treasury strategy and any decision to hold digital assets may increase our exposure to market volatility and potential uninsured losses.
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Although we generally liquidate BTC within a short period to fund expenses, market conditions and operational needs may necessitate longer holding periods, increasing exposure to price swings. If we hold ETH or other digital assets under our treasury strategy, we would be exposed to additional volatility, regulatory, and market structure risks specific to those assets. We are currently exposed to potential uninsured losses to the extent digital asset balances exceed the custodian’s applicable insurance coverage.
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Our failure to securely store and manage our fiat currencies and digital assets could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
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We hold cash and store digital assets for our treasury and hold fiat and digital assets for corporate investment and operating purposes. In addition, we store the majority of digital assets at third-party custodians for asset management products.
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Securely storing cash and digital assets is integral to the trust we build with our stockholders and our customers. We believe our policies, procedures, operational controls and controls over financial reporting protect us from material risks surrounding the storing of these assets and conflicts of interest. Our controls over financial reporting include, among others, controls over the segregation of corporate digital assets, controls over the investment and staking processes of our treasury, and controls over digital asset withdrawals. Our financial statements and disclosures, as a whole, will be available through periodic filings on a quarterly basis, and compliant with annual audit requirements of Article 3 of Regulation S-X.
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Any inability by us to maintain our procedures, perceived or otherwise, could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. Any material failure by us or our partners to maintain the necessary controls, policies, procedures or to manage the digital assets we hold for our own investment and operating purposes could also adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition. Further, any material failure by us or our partners to maintain the necessary controls or to manage digital assets and funds appropriately and in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements could result in reputational harm, litigation, regulatory enforcement actions, significant financial losses, and result in significant penalties and fines and additional restrictions, which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
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Reliance on mining pools and other third-party service providers may expose us to counterparty failures, operational issues, and losses.
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Our rewards are typically earned via pooled mining. We rely on pool operators to honestly and accurately account for our pro rata share of rewards, maintain operational security, and remit proceeds. Pools may lack insurance for theft or loss, and rewards may be held for varying durations. Any failure, insolvency, cyber event, mispricing, or suspension by a pool operator could delay or reduce our receipts or result in losses. A change in pool fee structures or terms could adversely affect yields.
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Below is a summary of the principal factors that make an investment in our common stock speculative or risky. This summary does not address all of the risks we face. Additional discussion of the risks summarized in this risk factor summary, and other risks that we face, can be found below and should be carefully considered, together with other information included in this Annual Report.
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Risks Related to Governmental Regulation and Enforcement
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Bitcoin prices are highly volatile, which may affect our ability to effectively manage growth plans and our profitability.
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The price of bitcoin is extremely volatile. In 2023 the price range of bitcoin was approximately $16,600 to $42,800, and in 2024 the price range of bitcoin has been approximately $40,000 to $103,000 through December 5, 2024. The cost to mine a bitcoin is independent of the then current price of bitcoin, so when prices are low, the cost per coin to mine may consume much of our available cash, which means that there is less capital with which to invest in future company growth. Similarly, when prices are low, our profitability is decreased on a dollar-for-dollar basis correlated to the then price of bitcoin. Given the volatility of bitcoin, these factors render us unable to accurately predict in advance what our growth plans may be and accurately forecast any revenue and profitability projections for any reporting period.
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The price of bitcoin may be influenced by regulatory, commercial, and technical factors that are highly uncertain.
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Bitcoin and other digital assets are relatively novel and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that may adversely impact their price. For example, the application of securities laws and other regulations to such assets is unclear in certain respects, and it is possible that regulators in the United States or foreign countries may create new regulations or interpret laws in a manner that adversely affects the price of bitcoin. The growth of the digital assets industry in general, and the use and acceptance of bitcoin in particular, may also impact the price of bitcoin and is subject to a high degree of uncertainty. The pace of worldwide growth in the adoption and use of bitcoin could depend on the following:
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Even if growth in bitcoin adoption occurs in the near or medium-term, there is no assurance that bitcoin usage will continue to grow over the long-term. Because bitcoin has no physical existence beyond the record of transactions on the bitcoin blockchain, a variety of technical factors related to the bitcoin blockchain could also impact the price of bitcoin. For example, malicious attacks by “miners” who validate bitcoin transactions, inadequate mining fees to incentivize validating of bitcoin transactions, “hard forks” of the bitcoin blockchain, and advances in quantum computing could undercut the integrity of the bitcoin blockchain and negatively affect the price of bitcoin. The liquidity of bitcoin may also be reduced and damage to the public perception of bitcoin may occur, if financial institutions were to deny banking services to businesses that hold bitcoin, provide bitcoin-related services or accept bitcoin as payment, which could also decrease the price of bitcoin.
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Fluctuations in the price of bitcoin may significantly influence the market price of our bitcoin holdings and therefore, the price of our common stock.
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To the extent investors view the value of our common stock as linked to the value or change in the value of our bitcoin, fluctuations in the price of bitcoin may significantly influence the market price of our common stock.
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If we fail to grow our hash rate, we may be unable to compete, and our results of operations could suffer.
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Generally, a bitcoin miner’s chance of solving a block on the bitcoin blockchain and earning a bitcoin reward is a function of the miner’s hash rate (i.e., the amount of computing power devoted to supporting the bitcoin blockchain), relative to the global network hash rate. As greater adoption of bitcoin occurs, we expect the demand for bitcoin will increase further, drawing more mining companies into the industry and thereby increasing the global network hash rate. As new and more powerful miners are deployed, the global network hash rate will continue to increase, meaning a miner’s chance of earning bitcoin rewards will decline unless it deploys additional hash rate at pace with the industry.
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Accordingly, to maintain our chances of earning new bitcoin rewards and remaining competitive in our industry, we must seek to continually add new miners to grow our hash rate at pace with the growth in the bitcoin global network hash rate. However, as demand miners has increased sharply, and we expect this process to continue in the future as demand for bitcoin increases. Therefore, if the price of bitcoin is not sufficiently high to allow us to fund our hash rate growth through new miner acquisitions and if we are otherwise unable to access additional capital to acquire these miners, our hash rate may stagnate and we may fall behind our competitors. If this happens, our chances of earning new bitcoin rewards would decline and, as such, our results of operations and financial condition may suffer.
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We may not be able to obtain new hosting and transaction processing hardware or purchase such hardware at competitive prices during times of high demand, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Historically, an increase in interest and demand for digital assets has led to a shortage of hosting and transaction processing hardware and increased prices. As the price of digital assets increase, the profits that are generated from the mining those assets also increase, which causes more companies to enter the mining industry and existing companies to expand their mining operations. When that occurs, the demand for equipment may outpace supply and create mining machine equipment shortages. Currently, with the substantial increase in the price of bitcoin from its lows in late 2023, there is increased demand for new and used mining and hosting equipment. While we have not seen an uptick in the price of used mining equipment so far due to an overhang of supply on the market, we expect that prices will trend up in the near future if the bitcoin price of bitcoin remains constant or increases from its current level. In the short-term, a substantial increase in the price of bitcoin and associated equipment prices would improve the profitability of our existing operations, but in the long-term it could impair our ability to expand our operations or replace obsolete equipment, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Our business is capital intensive, and failure to obtain the necessary capital when needed may force us to delay, limit or terminate our expansion efforts or other operations, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Part of our business plan is to construct, develop and operate digital asset mining facilities, and to mine digital assets for our own account in those facilities by means of a fleet of the latest generation mining equipment. We may also use our mining facilities to host third-party miners. However, the costs of constructing, developing, operating and maintaining digital asset mining and hosting facilities, and owning and operating a large fleet of the latest generation mining equipment, are substantial. We have completed our initial hosting facility in Trinidad which recently became operational. We are also a partner in a joint venture that recently completed a facility with a capacity of 5-6 MW in Texas, which became operational in June 2023. We currently lack the capital to open material additional facilities or materially expand our additional facilities. Without capital to construct new mining facilities, we have focused our efforts on acquiring miners which are hosting in mining facilities owned by third parties.
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We will need to raise additional funds through equity or debt financings in order to meet our capital needs. Additional debt or equity financing may not be available when needed or, if available, may not be available on satisfactory terms. If our stock price declines and/or our trading volume remains low, our ability to raise capital to expand our business will be impaired. We have retained investment bankers to assist in raising the necessary capital to expand our business, but they can provide no assurance that capital is available on attractive terms in the current market environment. An inability to obtain additional debt or equity financing would adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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To the extent we host third party miners, our success will depend in large part on our ability to provide a competitive hosting environment, and our inability to attract customers for our hosting services could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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While our primary plan is to utilize our hosting facilities to mine bitcoin for our own account, we may utilize our hosting facilities to host third-party miners where we can do so on attractive terms. Our hosting success will depend our ability to attract hosting customers, which will depend our ability to offer competitive hosting terms and capabilities that enable our hosting clients to operate profitably. We may not be able to attract customers to our hosting capabilities for a number of reasons, including if:
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Furthermore, all of the risks that exist for our mining business would also exist for our third-party hosting clients. The inability of our hosting clients to operate profitably could adversely impact on our hosting business, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Significant disruptions in the crypto asset markets, such as those experienced in the second half of 2022, may cause material impairment of the value and use of our miners.
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During the fourth quarter of 2022, the per coin price of bitcoin reached a low of approximately $15,500 from a high of almost $21,500 earlier in the quarter. This decrease in the price of bitcoin, combined with general market sentiment caused in large part by the collapse of FTX Trading Ltd. (“FTX”) in November 2022 and various bitcoin company-related bankruptcies and restructurings, led to a material decline in the fair value of our miners during that period. Any future decrease in the value of bitcoin could cause us to record additional impairments in the value of our current and future assets.
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In addition, if bitcoin prices dropped to levels below that experienced in 2022 and held at those levels for a significant period of time, it could impact our profitability such that we would possibly need to consider whether it would be prudent to leave certain of our miners idle until the price of bitcoin recovered.
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Theoretically, there is a minimum bitcoin price that is so low that we would be incentivized to cease our mining operations, particularly where our operating costs exceed our revenues. However, this is a complex projection involving multiple ever-changing, dynamic variables. We have multiple mining sites and hosting partners, all with different hosting prices, electricity prices, and contract structures. These costs would need to be compared to the current revenue being produced by our miners.
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Adverse developments in the blockchain industry and in the blockchain hosting market could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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The blockchain industry faces a number of material risks, including those related to:
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To the extent that any of these or other adverse conditions exist, they are likely to have an adverse impact on our mining rewards, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Geopolitical or economic crises may create increased uncertainty and price changes, or motivate large-scale sales of digital assets, which could result in a reduction in some or all digital assets’ values and adversely affect an investment in our securities.
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As an alternative to fiat currencies that are backed by central governments, digital assets such as bitcoin, which are relatively new, are subject to supply and demand forces based upon the desirability of an alternative, decentralized means of buying and selling goods and services. It is unclear how such supply and demand will be impacted by geopolitical events. Nevertheless, geopolitical or economic crises may motivate large-scale acquisitions or sales of digital assets either globally or locally. Large-scale sales of digital assets would result in a reduction in their value and could adversely affect an investment in our securities.
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In addition, we are subject to price volatility and uncertainty due to geopolitical crises and economic downturns. Such geopolitical crises and global economic downturns may be a result of invasion, or possible invasion, by one nation of another, leading to increased inflation and supply chain volatility. Such crises, as well as inflation, will likely continue to have an effect on our ability to do business in a cost-effective manner.
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Adoption of a different method of validating transactions in bitcoin could materially impair the business of mining firms, and could even make them obsolete.
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Transactions in bitcoin are currently validated by a system called “proof of work,” where powerful computers run software that races to solve complex problems, verifying transactions in the process. The system is widely known as “mining” because the computers earn payments in cryptocurrency as rewards for the verification service. The system has been criticized by many because it requires substantial amounts of electricity to validate transactions. Recently, another type of digital currency, Ethereum, implemented a different system of validation called “proof of stake,” which is expected to require 99% less energy consumption. In the event bitcoin adopts a similar system, it could make bitcoin mining substantially less profitable and could even render the business obsolete.
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Where there is no assurance that bitcoin will not adopt a “proof of stake” system. Even if bitcoin decided to adopt such a system, we do not believe that the adoption would occur during in the near term, given the number of years it took Ethereum to create and implement its alternative system.
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The sale of our digital assets to pay expenses at a time of low digital asset prices could adversely affect an investment in our securities.
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We may sell our digital assets to pay expenses on an as-needed basis, irrespective of then-current prices. Consequently, our digital assets may be sold at a time when the prices on the respective digital asset exchange market are low, which could adversely affect an investment in our securities.
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Supply chain and shipping disruptions have resulted in shipping delays, a significant increase in shipping costs, and could increase product costs and result in lost sales, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
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Supply chain disruptions, resulting from factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, labor supply and shipping container shortages, have impacted, and may continue to impact, us and our third-party manufacturers and suppliers. These disruptions have, at times, resulted in longer lead times and increased product costs and shipping expenses, including with respect to the delivery of miners that we have purchased. While we have taken steps to minimize the impact of these increased costs by working closely with our suppliers and customers, there can be no assurances that unforeseen events impacting the supply chain will not have a material adverse effect on us in the future. Additionally, the impacts supply chain disruptions have on our third-party manufacturers and suppliers are not within our control. When supply chain disruptions occur, it is often not possible to predict how long it will take for the supply chain disruptions to cease. Prolonged supply chain disruptions impacting us and our third-party manufacturers and suppliers could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
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Ownership of our securities involves a high degree of risk. Holders of our securities should carefully consider the following risk factors and the other information contained in this Form 10-K, including our historical condensed financial statements and related notes included herein. The following discussion highlights some of the risks that may affect future operating results. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us, which we currently deem immaterial or which are similar to those faced by other companies in our industry or businesses in general, may also impair our businesses operations. If any of the following risks or uncertainties actually occur, our business, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected in a material way. This could cause the trading prices of our common stock to decline, perhaps significantly, and you may lose part or all of your investment. Please see “Cautionary Notes Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”
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Ownership of our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below, together with all other information contained in or incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including our audited financial statements and the notes thereto, and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” The following discussion highlights material risks that could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity, prospects and the trading price of our common stock. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business operations. If any of the risks actually occur, our business could be materially harmed and the market price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
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We are subject to an extensive, highly evolving and uncertain regulatory and business landscape and any adverse changes to, or our failure to comply with, any laws and regulations, and adverse business reactions from counterparties could adversely affect our brand, reputation, business, operating results, and financial condition.
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We are subject to an extensive, highly evolving and uncertain regulatory landscape and any adverse changes to, or our failure to comply with, any laws and regulations could adversely affect our brand, reputation, business, operating results and financial condition.
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Many of these legal and regulatory regimes were adopted prior to the advent of the internet, mobile technologies, crypto assets, and related technologies. As a result, some applicable laws and regulations do not contemplate or address unique issues associated with the crypto economy, are subject to significant uncertainty, and vary widely across U.S. federal, state, and local and international jurisdictions. These legal and regulatory regimes, including the laws, rules, and regulations thereunder, evolve frequently and may be modified, interpreted, and applied in an inconsistent manner from one jurisdiction to another, and may conflict with one another. Moreover, the complexity and evolving nature of our business and the significant uncertainty surrounding the regulation of the crypto economy requires us to exercise our judgment as to whether certain laws, rules, and regulations apply to us, and it is possible that governmental bodies and regulators may disagree with our conclusions. To the extent we have not complied with such laws, rules, and regulations, we could be subject to significant fines, revocation of licenses, limitations on our products and services, reputational harm, and other regulatory consequences, each of which may be significant and could adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition.
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Our business is subject to extensive laws, rules, regulations, policies, orders, determinations, directives, treaties, and legal and regulatory interpretations and guidance in the markets in which we operate, including those governing financial services and banking, trust companies, securities, derivative transactions and markets, broker-dealers and alternative trading systems (“ATS”), commodities, credit, digital asset custody, exchange, and transfer, cross-border and domestic money and digital asset transmission, commercial lending, usury, foreign currency exchange, privacy, data governance, data protection, cybersecurity, fraud detection, payment services, consumer protection, antitrust and competition, bankruptcy, tax, anti-bribery, economic and trade sanctions, anti-money laundering, and counter-terrorist financing. Many of these legal and regulatory regimes were adopted prior to the advent of the internet, mobile technologies, digital assets, generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) and related technologies. As a result, some applicable laws and regulations do not contemplate or address unique issues associated with blockchain and digital assets industry, are subject to significant uncertainty, and vary widely across U.S. federal, state, and local and international jurisdictions. These legal and regulatory regimes, including the laws, rules and regulations thereunder, evolve frequently and may be modified, interpreted and applied in an inconsistent manner from one jurisdiction to another, and may conflict with one another. Moreover, the complexity and evolving nature of our business and the significant uncertainty surrounding the regulation of the blockchain and digital assets industry requires us to exercise our judgment as to whether certain laws, rules and regulations apply to us, and it is possible that governmental bodies and regulators may disagree with our conclusions. To the extent we have not complied with such laws, rules, and regulations, we could be subject to significant fines, revocation of licenses, limitations on or temporary or permanent suspensions of our products and services, reputational harm, and other regulatory consequences, each of which may be significant and could adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition.
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The digital asset mining industry is highly innovative, rapidly evolving and characterized by healthy competition, experimentation, frequent introductions of new products and services and uncertain and evolving industry and regulatory requirements. We expect competition to further intensify in the future as existing and new competitors introduce new products or enhance existing products. We compete against a number of companies operating both within the United States and abroad, that have greater financial and other resources and that focus on digital asset mining, including businesses focused on developing substantial bitcoin mining operations. If we are unable to compete successfully, or if competing successfully requires us to take costly actions in response to the actions of our competitors, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
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The digital asset industry is highly innovative, rapidly evolving, and characterized by healthy competition, experimentation, changing customer needs, frequent introductions of new products and services, and subject to uncertain and evolving industry and regulatory requirements. We expect competition to intensify in the future as existing and new competitors introduce new products or enhance existing products. We face significant competition from a variety of companies around the world, ranging from digital asset-native companies, including decentralized exchanges, to large traditional financial services incumbents and financial technology providers.
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If we are unable to compete successfully, or if competing successfully requires us to take costly actions in response to the actions of our competitors, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
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Counterparty risk in the markets in which we operate includes:
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The trading price of our common stock may be volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.