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November 17, 2022
Linghui Kong
Chief Executive Officer
Bitdeer Technologies Group
08 Kallang Avenue
Aperia Tower 1, #09-03/04
Singapore 339509
Re: Bitdeer
Technologies Group
Amendment No. 7 to
Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4
Submitted November
3, 2022
CIK No. 0001899123
Dear Linghui Kong:
We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and
have the following
comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we
may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not
believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
After reviewing the information you provide in response to these
comments and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we
may have additional
comments. Unless we note otherwise, our references to prior comments are
to comments given
on October 25 and 26, 2022.
Amendment No. 7 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4
Bitdeer's Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition...
Results of Operations
Comparison of Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 and 2022, page 226
1. Please revise to ensure
that you provide a qualitative and quantitative analysis of each of
the contributing or
offsetting factors that caused material changes in your results of
operations. In this
regard, explain and quantify the other factors contributing to the
decrease in revenue
generated from your proprietary mining business other than the price
drop of Bitcoin, such
as the comparative number of bitcoin mined and/or the amount of
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hash rate allocated to your proprietary mining business during each of
the periods. Also,
in your discussion of the change in revenue generated from Cloud Hash
Rate, disclose the
impact of generating less additional consideration from arrangements
offered under
accelerator mode and the comparative amount of hash rate allocated to
Cloud Hash Rate
in each of the periods. In addition, please identify if any of these
factors represent a trend
that is reasonably expected to have a material impact.
Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 233
2. You indicate anticipated cash flow from operations is one of the
sources of cash to meet
your current and anticipated working capital requirements and capital
expenditures for at
least the next 18 months. In light of the historical net cash used in
operating activities,
please revise this disclosure and disclosures throughout your filing
indicating that you
anticipate generating cash flow from operations.
3. In addition to disclosing the difference between net loss and net cash
used in operating
activities, you should also include a discussion of the underlying
reasons for changes in
working capital items that affect operating cash flows. Your
discussion and analysis of
operating activities should focus on the primary drivers of and other
material factors
necessary to understand your cash flows and the indicative value of
historical cash flows.
Please revise to provide disclosure and analysis of the underlying
factors that affect your
operating cash flows that are not readily apparent from your cash flow
statements.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure about Financial Risk, page 236
4. Consistent with comment 36 in our letter dated January 11, 2022,
please revise to provide
quantitative information for cryptocurrency risk exposure. Refer to
Part I, Item 11(a) of
Form 20-F.
Bitdeer Technologies Holding Company and Subsidiaries
Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 20. Related Party Transactions, page F-57
5. We continue to consider your responses to comment 3 in your letters
dated September 6,
2022 and November 3, 2022 regarding your accounting for the wealth
management
product and may have further comment.
6. We continue to consider your response to comment 2 in your letter
dated November 3,
2022 regarding your accounting of USDC lending transactions and may
have further
comment.
7. We note that you have entered into a loan agreement for 15 million
USDT and purchased
type B wealth management products in the aggregate amount of 60
million USDT during
the six months ended June 30, 2022. Further describe the material
rights and obligations
of both parties to the loan and the investments. Please explain how
you are accounting for
these transactions and cite the literature that supports your
accounting. As part of your
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response, explain how you reached the conclusion that the
cryptocurrencies lent are not
derecognized, as noted from your disclosure on page F-74.
Notes to the Combined and Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
p. Revenue recognition, page F-78
8. We note your revised disclosure of your revenue recognition policy for
Cloud Hash Rate
arrangements in response to prior comment 7. Please address the
following:
Clarify the statement indicating that the electricity
subscriptions are sold separately,
considering that electricity appears to be one of the two
promises that are treated as a
single performance obligation in your arrangements;
You indicate that the price of both plans is fixed at the
commencement of each
subscription. Please clarify your disclosure to address whether
the transaction price
is fixed or variable or both at the inception of the contract. In
this regard, we note
that the unit price of the electricity subscription fee is
subject to adjustment each
electricity subscription period; and
We note that revenue is recognized over time and amortized
ratably throughout the
duration of each plan. Considering you are providing a series of
distinct services and
the unit price of the electricity subscription fee is subject to
adjustment each
electricity subscription period, please explain how ratable
recognition is an
appropriate method of measuring progress and clarify how you are
allocating the
transaction price to each distinct service in the series. Also
tell us how you
considered the guidance in paragraph 89 of IFRS 15.
9. We note your revised disclosure of your revenue recognition policy for
Cloud Hosting
arrangements in response to prior comment 7. You indicate that revenue
is recognized
ratably throughout the term of the service. Please tell us if this
statement relates to only
the fixed consideration, and, if so, please clarify your disclosure.
In this regard, we note
that variable consideration is allocated entirely to the corresponding
distinct service
period. In addition, please explain how ratable recognition is an
appropriate method of
measuring progress and clarify how you are allocating the transaction
price to each
distinct service in the series.
10. For General Hosting arrangements, please revise to clarify the promises
in the
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You may contact Melissa Walsh, Senior Staff Accountant, at (202)
551-3224 or Stephen
Krikorian, Accounting Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3488 if you have questions
regarding
comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact
Priscilla Dao, Staff
Attorney, at (202) 551-5997 or Larry Spirgel, Office Chief, at (202) 551-3815
with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of
Corporation Finance
Office of Technology
cc: Will Cai