---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-008792"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OBTC"
cik: "0001767057"
company_name: "Osprey Bitcoin Trust"
filed_at: "2024-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T03:56:04.551582+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Osprey Bitcoin Trust explores sale, merger, or liquidation; files to deregister units

## Summary
- Units trade at discount to Bitcoin value; sponsor exploring strategic alternatives including sale or merger with a Bitcoin ETF.
- If talks fail, sponsor intends to liquidate and dissolve trust within 180 days from March 5, 2024.
- Trust will file Form 15 to terminate SEC registration; Exchange Act reporting obligations suspended immediately.
- Deregistration effective 90 days after filing; trust remains subject to OTCQX alternative reporting standard.
- No guarantee of any transaction; liquidation is fallback if no sale or merger concludes positively.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-008792
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OBTC
- cik: 0001767057
- company_name: Osprey Bitcoin Trust
- filed_at: 2024-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767057/000149315224008792/0001493152-24-008792-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767057/000149315224008792/form8-k.htm

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