3/5Osprey Bitcoin Trust (OBTC): Auditor change

Market data

Price before filing: $20.21 (2026-06-18 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $92.3M (2026-06-22) · Latest: $116.3M (2026-10-16)

What happened next

Return from the last close before the filing date to the first close on/after the window end. Pending windows have not fully elapsed. Past performance says nothing certain about the future.

Insider trading around this filing

90 days before the flag: no open-market insider sales or purchases reported.
30 days after: none reported.

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2026-03-24 to 2026-07-22. Excludes option exercises, grants, gifts and tax withholding. Amended filings replace the originals; joint filings count once. Foreign private issuers do not file Form 4. Many insider sales are pre-scheduled (10b5-1 plans) and are not by themselves a sign of wrongdoing.

Verified excerpt

"(a) Dismissal of Previous Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm On June 16, 2026, Osprey Funds, LLC, as sponsor (the "Sponsor") of Osprey Bitcoin Trust (the "Trust") approved the dismissal of Grant Thornton LLP ("GT") as the Trust's independent registered public accounting firm, effective as of such date (the "Dismissal Date")."

Quoted from the filing. Source

What this means

The company changed its outside auditor (8-K Item 4.01). A dismissal or resignation, especially near an annual report or with reported disagreements, is a warning sign. Changes caused by audit firms merging are usually routine.

Type: dismissed
Disagreements reported: no
Former auditor: Grant Thornton LLP · New auditor: Cherry Bekaert LLP