UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of December 2022
Commission File Number: 001-40370
BITFARMS LTÉE
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
18 King Street East, Suite 902, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 1C4
(Address of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F ☐ Form 40-F ☒
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ☐
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INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
On December 14, 2022 the Registrant filed with the Canadian Securities Regulatory Authorities on the System for Electronic Data Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) a material change report that includes a copy of a press release, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1, and which is incorporated by reference to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-10 (File No. 333-258788).
Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 99.1 | Material Change Report dated December 14, 2022 |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| BITFARMS LTÉE | |||
| Par : | /s/ L. Geoffrey Morphy | ||
| Name: | L. Geoffrey Morphy | ||
| Title: | President | ||
Date: December 14, 2022
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Exhibit 99.1
FORM 51-102F3
MATERIAL CHANGE REPORT
| Item 1 | Name and Address of Company |
Bitfarms Ltd. (“Bitfarms” or the “Company”)
18 King Street East, Suite 902
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1C4
| Item 2 | Date of Material Change |
December 14, 2022.
| Item 3 | News Release |
The press release attached as Schedule “A” was released on December 14, 2022 by a newswire company in Canada.
| Item 4 | Summary of Material Change |
The material change is described in the press release attached as Schedule “A”.
| Item 5 | Full Description of Material Change |
The material change is described in the press release attached as Schedule “A”.
| Item 6 | Reliance of subsection 7.1(2) of National Instrument 51-102 |
Not applicable.
| Item 7 | Omitted Information |
Not applicable.
| Item 8 | Executive Officer |
Nicolas Bonta
Executive Chairman & Director
Bitfarms ltée
nbonta@bitfarms.com
| Item 9 | Date of Report |
December 14, 2022.
SCHEDULE “A”
Bitfarms reçoit une notification du NASDAQ concernant la non-conformité du prix d'offre minimum
Le présent communiqué de presse constitue un « communiqué de presse désigné » aux fins du supplément de prospectus de la société daté du 16 août 2021, à son prospectus simplifié de base daté du 12 août 2021.
Toronto, Ontario and Brossard, Québec (December 14, 2022) - Bitfarms Ltd. (NASDAQ: BITF // TSX: BITF), a global Bitcoin self-mining company, today announced that on December 13, 2022 it received a written notification (the “Notification Letter”) from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that, for the last thirty consecutive business days, the bid price for the Company’s common shares (the “Shares”) had closed below the minimum US$1.00 per share requirement for continued listing on Nasdaq under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”).
In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company has been provided an initial period of 180 calendar days, or until June 12, 2023 (the “Compliance Deadline”), to regain compliance. The letter states that the Nasdaq staff will provide written notification that the Company has achieved compliance with Rule 5550(a)(2) if at any time before June 12, 2023, the bid price of the Company’s Shares closes at US$1.00 per share or more for a minimum of ten consecutive business days. The Nasdaq letter is only a notification of deficiency and has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company’s Shares and the Shares will continue to trade on Nasdaq under the symbol “BITF.” The Company’s Shares are also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Notification Letter does not affect the Company’s compliance status with such listing nor does it affect the Company’s business operations or financial condition.
La Société a l'intention de surveiller continuellement le cours acheteur de ses Actions et, dans la mesure nécessaire, d'évaluer les options disponibles pour se conformer à nouveau à la règle du cours acheteur minimum du Nasdaq au cours de la période de conformité. Si la Société ne se conforme pas à nouveau à la règle 5550(a)(2) d'ici le 12 juin 2023, la Société peut être admissible à une période de conformité supplémentaire de 180 jours civils.
À propos de Bitfarms ltée
Fondée en 2017, Bitfarms est une société mondiale cotée en bourse (NASDAQ/TSX : BITF) d'auto-minage de bitcoins. Bitfarms exploite des opérations de minage intégrées verticalement avec une gestion interne et un service d'ingénierie électrique, d'installation et de réparation technique sur site appartenant à l'entreprise. Le système exclusif d'analyse des données de la Société offre les meilleures performances opérationnelles de sa catégorie et un temps de fonctionnement accéléré.
Bitfarms a 10 installations de minage en production dans le monde, qui sont hébergées dans quatre pays : le Canada, les États-Unis, le Paraguay et l'Argentine. Alimenté par des contrats d'électricité à long terme et des contrats hydroélectriques principalement respectueux de l'environnement, Bitfarms s'engage à utiliser des infrastructures énergétiques renouvelables, locales et souvent sous-utilisées.
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Pour en savoir plus sur les événements, les développements et les communautés en ligne de Bitfarms :
Site web : www.bitfarms.com
https://www.facebook.com/BitfarmsFR/
https://twitter.com/bitfarms_fr
https://www.instagram.com/bitfarms_fr/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitfarms-fr
Mise en garde
Le commerce des titres de la Société doit être considéré comme hautement spéculatif. Aucune bourse, commission des valeurs mobilières ou autre autorité réglementaire n'a approuvé ou désapprouvé les informations contenues dans le présent document. Ni la Bourse de Toronto, ni le Nasdaq, ni aucune autre bourse de valeurs ou autorité de réglementation n'acceptent la responsabilité de la pertinence ou de l'exactitude de ce communiqué.
Énoncés prévisionnels
Ce communiqué de presse contient certaines « informations prospectives » et « déclarations prospectives » (collectivement, « informations prospectives ») qui sont basées sur des attentes, des estimations et des projections à la date de ce communiqué de presse et qui sont couvertes par des règles refuge en vertu des lois canadiennes et américaines sur les valeurs mobilières. Les déclarations et les informations contenues dans ce communiqué concernant les efforts de la Société pour se conformer à nouveau à l'exigence du prix minimum d'offre, les intentions, les plans et les actions futures de la Société, ainsi que la capacité de Bitfarms à faire du minage des devises numériques avec succès, l'augmentation des revenus comme prévu actuellement, la capacité à liquider de manière rentable les stocks actuels et futurs de devises numériques, la volatilité de la difficulté du réseau et des prix des devises numériques et l'impact négatif significatif potentiel qui en résulte sur les opérations de la Société, la construction et l'exploitation d'une infrastructure de la chaîne de blocs (blockchain) élargie comme prévu actuellement, l'environnement réglementaire pour les cryptomonnaies dans les juridictions applicables, les déclarations concernant la disponibilité et la mise en œuvre de mesures correctives pour se conformer à nouveau à l'exigence du prix d'offre minimum, la disponibilité de toute prolongation de la date limite de conformité et les conditions d'une telle prolongation qui peuvent être imposées par le Nasdaq, et le droit de la Société de faire appel de toute ordonnance de radiation du Nasdaq.
Toute déclaration impliquant des discussions sur des prédictions, des attentes, des croyances, des plans, des projections, des objectifs, des hypothèses, des événements ou des performances futurs (utilisant souvent, mais pas toujours, des expressions telles que « s'attend à », ou « ne s'attend pas à », « est attendu », « anticipe » ou « n'anticipe pas », « planifie », « budget », « prévu », « estime », « croit » ou « a l'intention » ou des variations de ces mots et expressions ou indiquant que certaines actions, événements ou résultats « peuvent » ou « pourraient », « pourraient », « pourraient » ou « seront » pris en compte, « estime », « croit » ou « a l'intention de » ou des variations de ces mots et expressions ou indiquant que certaines actions, certains événements ou certains résultats « peuvent » ou « pourraient », « pourraient », « pourraient » ou « vont » se produire ou être atteints) ne sont pas des déclarations de faits historiques et peuvent constituer des informations prospectives et sont destinées à identifier les informations prospectives.
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This forward-looking information is based on assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time they were made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among others, risks relating to: volatility in the trading price of the Shares, due at least in part to the correlation between the trading prices of Bitcoin and the trading prices of Bitcoin mining companies and other factors unrelated to the Company’s operating performance; the global economic climate; dilution; the Company’s limited operating history; future capital needs and uncertainty of additional financing, including the Company’s ability to utilize the Company’s at-the-market offering (the “ATM Program”) and the prices at which the Company may sell Common Shares in the ATM Program, as well as capital market conditions in general; risks relating to the strategy of maintaining and increasing Bitcoin holdings and the impact of depreciating Bitcoin prices on working capital; the competitive nature of the industry; currency exchange risks; the need for the Company to manage its planned growth and expansion; the effects of product development and need for continued technology change; the ability to maintain reliable and economical sources of power to run its cryptocurrency mining assets; the impact of energy curtailment or regulatory changes in the energy regimes in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates; protection of proprietary rights; the effect of government regulation and compliance on the Company and the industry; network security risks; the ability of the Company to maintain properly working systems; reliance on key personnel; global economic and financial market deterioration impeding access to capital or increasing the cost of capital; and share dilution resulting from the ATM Program and from other equity issuances. In addition, particular factors that could impact future results of the business of Bitfarms include, but are not limited to: the construction and operation of facilities may not occur as currently planned, or at all; expansion may not materialize as currently anticipated, or at all; the digital currency market; the ability to successfully mine digital currency; revenue may not increase as currently anticipated, or at all; it may not be possible to profitably liquidate the current digital currency inventory, or at all; a decline in digital currency prices may have a significant negative impact on operations; an increase in network difficulty may have a significant negative impact on operations; the volatility of digital currency prices; the anticipated growth and sustainability of hydroelectricity for the purposes of cryptocurrency mining in the applicable jurisdictions; the inability to maintain reliable and economical sources of power for the Company to operate cryptocurrency mining assets; the risks of an increase in the Company’s electricity costs, cost of natural gas, changes in currency exchange rates, energy curtailment or regulatory changes in the energy regimes in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates and the adverse impact on the Company’s profitability; the ability to complete current and future financings, any regulations or laws that will prevent Bitfarms from operating its business; historical prices of digital currencies and the ability to mine digital currencies that will be consistent with historical prices; an inability to predict and counteract the effects of COVID-19 on the business of the Company, including but not limited to the effects of COVID-19 on the price of digital currencies, capital market conditions, restriction on labour and international travel and supply chains; and, the adoption or expansion of any regulation or law that will prevent Bitfarms from operating its business, or make it more costly to do so. For further information concerning these and other risks and uncertainties, refer to the Company’s filings on www.SEDAR.com (which are also available on the website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov), including the annual information form for the year-ended December 31, 2021, filed on March 28, 2022. The Company has also assumed that no significant events occur outside of Bitfarms’ normal course of business. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking information other than as required by law.
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Contacts :
LHA Investor Relations
David Barnard
+1 415-433-3777
Investors@bitfarms.com
Agence réelle
Matt Weaver
+1 339-234-3332
mediarelations@bitfarms.com
Québec Media : Tact
Louis-Martin Leclerc
+1 418-693-2425
lmleclerc@tactconseil.ca
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