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Bitcoin Fund Units Class A T.QBTC

The Bitcoin Fund (the Fund) is a Canada-based closed-ended investment fund. The investment objectives of the Fund are to seek to provide unitholders of the Fund with exposure to the digital asset bitcoin (bitcoin) and the daily price movements of the United States dollar price of bitcoin, and the opportunity for long-term capital appreciation. The Fund invests in long-term holdings of bitcoin, purchased from reputable bitcoin trading platforms and OTC counterparties, in order to provide investors with a convenient, safer alternative to a direct investment in bitcoin.


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Comment by Mat1791on Feb 19, 2021 12:43pm
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Post# 32610607

RE:Redemption Privileges

RE:Redemption Privileges

REDEMPTION OF UNITS

Annual Redemptions

Units may be redeemed at the option of Unitholders on the first business day following the 15th day of June in each year (each, an “Annual Redemption Date”), commencing on June 16, 2021, subject to the Fund’s right to suspend redemptions in certain circumstances. Units so redeemed will be redeemed at a redemption price equal to the Net Asset Value per Unit on the Annual Redemption Date, less any costs and expenses associated with the redemption, including commissions incurred by the Fund to fund such redemptions. Units must be surrendered for redemption on or before the last business day of the month of May preceding the applicable Annual Redemption Date (the “Annual Cut-Off Date”). Payment of the proceeds of redemption will be made in U.S. dollars on or before the 15th business day following the Annual Redemption Date. See “Risk Factors – Liquidity Constraints on Bitcoin Markets may Impact the Fund’s Holdings” and “Financial Institutions may Refuse to Support Transactions Involving Bitcoins”.

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Monthly Redemptions

Class A Units may be surrendered at the option of Unitholders at any time for redemption on a Monthly Redemption Date, subject to certain conditions and, in order to effect such a redemption, the Class A Units must be surrendered for redemption no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the last business day of the month prior to the month of the applicable Monthly Redemption Date (the “Monthly Cut-Off Date”, and together with the Annual Cut-Off Date, the “Cut-Off Date”). Payment of the proceeds of redemption will be made in U.S. dollars on or before the 15th business day following the Monthly Redemption Date (“Redemption Payment Date”). See “Risk Factors – Liquidity Constraints on Bitcoin Markets may Impact the Fund’s Holdings” and “Financial Institutions may Refuse to Support Transactions Involving Bitcoins”.

Unitholders surrendering a Class A Unit for redemption will receive a redemption price (the “Class A Redemption Price”) equal to the lesser of: (i) 95% of the Closing Market Price of a Class A Unit; and (ii) the Net Asset Value per Class A Unit on the applicable Monthly Redemption Date less, in each case, any costs and expenses associated with the redemption, including commissions incurred by the Fund. In any event, the Class A Redemption Price will not be an amount that is more than the Net Asset Value per Class A Unit as of the Monthly Redemption Date. Redemption proceeds will be paid in U.S. dollars.

Exercise of Redemption Right

A Unitholder who desires to exercise redemption privileges must do so by causing the CDS Participant through which he or she holds his or her Units to deliver to CDS at its office in the City of Toronto on behalf of the Unitholder, a written notice of the Unitholder’s intention to redeem Units by no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the applicable Cut-Off Date described above. A Unitholder who desires to redeem Units should ensure that the CDS Participant is provided with notice of his or her intention to exercise his or her redemption right sufficiently in advance of the applicable Cut-Off Date so as to permit the CDS Participant to deliver a notice to CDS by 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the applicable Cut-Off Date.

By causing a CDS Participant to deliver to CDS a notice of the Unitholder’s intention to redeem Units, the Unitholder will be deemed to have irrevocably surrendered his or her Units for redemption and appointed such CDS Participant to act as his or her exclusive settlement agent with respect to the exercise of such redemption privilege and the receipt of payment in connection with the settlement of obligations arising from such exercise, provided that the Manager may from time to time prior to the Annual Redemption Date or Monthly Redemption Date permit the withdrawal of a redemption notice on such terms and conditions as the Manager may determine, in its sole discretion, provided that such withdrawal will not adversely affect the Fund. Any expense associated with the preparation and delivery of the redemption notice will be for the account of the Unitholder exercising the redemption privilege.

Any redemption notice that CDS determines to be incomplete, not in proper form or not duly executed will, for all purposes, be void and of no effect and the redemption privilege to which it relates will be considered, for all purposes, not to have been exercised thereby. A failure by a CDS Participant to exercise redemption privileges or to give effect to the settlement thereof in accordance with a Unitholder’s instructions will not give rise to any obligations or liability on the part of the Fund, the Fund or the Manager to the CDS Participant or the Unitholder.

Allocations of Capital Gains to Redeeming Unitholders

Pursuant to the Declaration of Trust, the Fund may allocate and designate as payable any capital gains realized by the Fund as a result of any disposition of property of the Fund undertaken to permit or facilitate the redemption of Units to a Unitholder whose Units are being redeemed. Any such allocations will reduce the redemption price otherwise payable to the redeeming Unitholder. Provided that certain Tax Proposals are enacted as proposed, an amount so allocated and designated to a redeeming Unitholder may only be deductible to the Fund to the extent of the gain that would otherwise be realized by the Unitholder on the redemption of Units. Assuming that such Tax Proposals are enacted in their current form, the taxable component of distributions by the Fund to non-redeeming Unitholders could be greater than it would be in the absence of such amendments.

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Resale of Units Tendered for Redemption

The Fund may enter into a recirculation agreement with a recirculation agent pursuant to which such agent will agree to use commercially reasonable efforts to find purchasers for any Units tendered for redemption prior to the relevant Annual Redemption Date or Monthly Redemption Date, provided that the holder of Units so tendered has not withheld consent thereto. Pursuant to such agreement, the Fund may, but will not be obligated to, require the recirculation agent to seek such purchasers and, in such event, the amount to be paid to the Unitholder on the applicable Redemption Payment Date will be an amount equal to the proceeds of the sale of the Units less any applicable commission, provided that such amount will not be less than the applicable redemption price described above.

Suspension of Redemptions

The Manager may suspend the redemption of Units or payment of redemption proceeds of the Fund with the prior permission of the securities regulatory authorities, for any period during which the Manager determines that conditions exist that render impractical the sale of assets of the Fund or that impair the ability of the Administrator to determine the value of the assets of the Fund. The suspension may apply to all requests for redemption received prior to the suspension but as to which payment has not been made, as well as to all requests received while the suspension is in effect. All Unitholders making such requests shall be advised by the Manager of the suspension and that the redemption will be effected at a price determined on the first Valuation Date following the termination of the suspension. All such Unitholders shall have and shall be advised that they have the right to withdraw their requests for redemption. The suspension shall terminate in any event on the first day on which the condition giving rise to the suspension has ceased to exist, provided that no other condition under which a suspension is authorized then exists. To the extent not inconsistent with official rules and regulations promulgated by any government body having jurisdiction over the Fund, any declaration of suspension made by the Manager shall be conclusive.


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