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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-000178 to Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF (BTCO)

Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF
Date: Jan. 5, 2024 · CIK: 0001855781 · Accession: 0000000000-24-000178

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File numbers found in text: 333-255175

Date
January 5, 2024
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Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF

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United States securities and exchange commission logo January 5, 2024 Anna Paglia Chief Executive Officer Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700 Downers Grove, IL 60515 Re:Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed December 29, 2023 File No. 333-255175 Dear Anna Paglia: We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following comments. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our December 21, 2023 letter. Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 General 1.We note that you are registering an indeterminate number of securities in accordance with Rules 456(d) and 457(u). Please update your EDGAR header tags accordingly. Cover Page 2.Please revise your disclosure on the cover page, consistent with your disclosure on page 87, to identify the Seed Capital Investor as a statutory underwriter, and disclose the initial price per Share. 3.We note your cover page disclosure that subject to Cboe in the future receiving In-Kind Regulatory Approval, the creation and redemptions transactions may also take place in

FirstName LastNameAnna Paglia Comapany NameInvesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF January 5, 2024 Page 2 FirstName LastNameAnna Paglia Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF January 5, 2024 Page 2 exchange for bitcoin. Please revise in an appropriate section of the prospectus to clarify how you will inform Shareholders if Cboe receives In-Kind Regulatory Approval and if the Sponsor chooses to allow in-kind creations and redemptions. Please also confirm your understanding, consistent with the undertaking required by Item 512(a)(1)(iii) of Regulation S-K, that you will file a post-effective amendment to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information. Prospectus Summary The Trust's Service Providers Authorized Participants, page 7 4.Please revise to name the Bitcoin Counterparties that have been identified by or have an agreement with the Execution Agent. Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Market The Bitcoin Market Forks and Air Drops, page 60 5.We note your response to prior comment 10. Please revise this section, the risk factors on pages 21, 35 and 42, and throughout the prospectus to clarify, if true, that with respect to any fork, airdrop or similar event, the Sponsor will cause the Trust to irrevocably abandon the Incidental Rights or IR Virtual Currency and in the event the Trust seeks to change this position, an application would need to be filed with the SEC by your listing exchange seeking approval to amend its listing rules. Please also revise to clarify, if true, that the only crypto asset to be held by the Trust will be bitcoin. Calculation of NAV, page 70 6.Refer to your responses to comment 9 in our September 29, 2023 letter and related subsequent comments. We note your revised disclosure that the Trust will only allow cash redemptions, and observe that this change may have an impact on your fair value accounting policy, including principal market determination under ASC Topic 820. Please confirm your understanding that our decision not to issue additional comments should not be interpreted to mean that we either agree or disagree with your responses and your current fair value accounting policy. Please also confirm your understanding that we may comment further on this matter in future filing reviews once the Trust is operational. Custody of the Trust's Bitcoin Insurance of the Bitcoin Custodian, page 82 7.We note your response to prior comment 15. Please balance your disclosure to clarify, if true, that there is no guarantee that the amount of bitcoin in each Trust wallet will remain below $100 million.

FirstName LastNameAnna Paglia Comapany NameInvesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF January 5, 2024 Page 3 FirstName LastName Anna Paglia Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF January 5, 2024 Page 3 Creation and Redemption of Shares Creation Procedures, page 89 8.You disclose here that purchase orders must be placed by 4:00 p.m. ET. On page 91, in the "Cash Creation Procedures" section, you disclose that cash purchase orders must by placed by 2:30 p.m. ET. Please reconcile the inconsistency. Please also combine the disclosure in the "Cash Creation Procedures" section with the disclosure in the "Creation Procedures" section, or explain why you have two separate sections when you are only allowing cash creation transactions. Please contact David Irving at 202-551-3321 or Robert Telewicz at 202-551-3438 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Lulu Cheng at 202-551-3811 or Justin Dobbie at 202-551-3469 with any other questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Crypto Assets cc: Paulita Pike

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United States securities and exchange commission logo
January 5, 2024
Anna Paglia
Chief Executive Officer
Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Re:Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF
Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed December 29, 2023
File No. 333-255175
Dear Anna Paglia:
            We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.
            Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances
or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise,
any references to prior comments are to comments in our December 21, 2023 letter.
Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
General
1.We note that you are registering an indeterminate number of securities in accordance with
Rules 456(d) and 457(u). Please update your EDGAR header tags accordingly.
Cover Page
2.Please revise your disclosure on the cover page, consistent with your disclosure on page
87, to identify the Seed Capital Investor as a statutory underwriter, and disclose the initial
price per Share.
3.We note your cover page disclosure that subject to Cboe in the future receiving In-Kind
Regulatory Approval, the creation and redemptions transactions may also take place in

 FirstName LastNameAnna Paglia
 Comapany NameInvesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF
 January 5, 2024 Page 2
 FirstName LastNameAnna Paglia
Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF
January 5, 2024
Page 2
exchange for bitcoin. Please revise in an appropriate section of the prospectus to clarify
how you will inform Shareholders if Cboe receives In-Kind Regulatory Approval and if
the Sponsor chooses to allow in-kind creations and redemptions. Please also confirm your
understanding, consistent with the undertaking required by Item 512(a)(1)(iii) of
Regulation S-K, that you will file a post-effective amendment to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
registration statement or any material change to such information.
Prospectus Summary
The Trust's Service Providers
Authorized Participants, page 7
4.Please revise to name the Bitcoin Counterparties that have been identified by or have an
agreement with the Execution Agent.
Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Market
The Bitcoin Market
Forks and Air Drops, page 60
5.We note your response to prior comment 10. Please revise this section, the risk factors on
pages 21, 35 and 42, and throughout the prospectus to clarify, if true, that with respect to
any fork, airdrop or similar event, the Sponsor will cause the Trust to irrevocably abandon
the Incidental Rights or IR Virtual Currency and in the event the Trust seeks to change
this position, an application would need to be filed with the SEC by your listing exchange
seeking approval to amend its listing rules. Please also revise to clarify, if true, that the
only crypto asset to be held by the Trust will be bitcoin.
Calculation of NAV, page 70
6.Refer to your responses to comment 9 in our September 29, 2023 letter and related
subsequent comments. We note your revised disclosure that the Trust will only allow cash
redemptions, and observe that this change may have an impact on your fair value
accounting policy, including principal market determination under ASC Topic 820.
Please confirm your understanding that our decision not to issue additional comments
should not be interpreted to mean that we either agree or disagree with your responses and
your current fair value accounting policy.  Please also confirm your understanding that we
may comment further on this matter in future filing reviews once the Trust is operational.
Custody of the Trust's Bitcoin
Insurance of the Bitcoin Custodian, page 82
7.We note your response to prior comment 15. Please balance your disclosure to clarify, if
true, that there is no guarantee that the amount of bitcoin in each Trust wallet will remain
below $100 million.

 FirstName LastNameAnna Paglia
 Comapany NameInvesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF
 January 5, 2024 Page 3
 FirstName LastName
Anna Paglia
Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF
January 5, 2024
Page 3
Creation and Redemption of Shares
Creation Procedures, page 89
8.You disclose here that purchase orders must be placed by 4:00 p.m. ET. On page 91, in
the "Cash Creation Procedures" section, you disclose that cash purchase orders must by
placed by 2:30 p.m. ET.  Please reconcile the inconsistency.  Please also combine the
disclosure in the "Cash Creation Procedures" section with the disclosure in the "Creation
Procedures" section, or explain why you have two separate sections when you are only
allowing cash creation transactions.
            Please contact David Irving at 202-551-3321 or Robert Telewicz at 202-551-3438 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Lulu Cheng at 202-551-3811 or Justin Dobbie at 202-551-3469 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Crypto Assets
cc:       Paulita Pike