Company: CIFRW
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001819989-25-000027
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Company: Cipher Mining Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
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 collars and exchange funds, or other transactions that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of the Company’s equity securities and pledging Company securities as collateral for a loan, purchasing Company securities on margin (i.e., borrowing money to purchase the securities), or placing Company securities in a margin account, subject to specified exceptions.

#### Clawback Policy
Our Board of Directors has adopted a Compensation Recoupment Policy (the "Clawback Policy"), in accordance with the Nasdaq listing standards and Exchange Act Rule 10D-1, which applies to our current and former executive officers. Under the Clawback Policy, we are required to recoup the amount of any erroneously awarded compensation (as defined in the Clawback Policy) on a pre-tax basis within a specified lookback period in the event of any Financial Restatement (as defined in the Clawback Policy), subject to limited impracticability exceptions. The Clawback Policy is overseen and administered by the Compensation Committee.

#### Communications with the Board
Any stockholder who desires to communicate with our Board of Directors, our non-management directors or any specified individual director, may do so by directing such correspondence to the attention of the Secretary, Cipher Mining Inc., 1 Vanderbilt Avenue, Floor 54, New York, New York, 10017. The Secretary will forward the communication to the appropriate director or directors as appropriate.

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### EXECUTIVE AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
This section discusses the material components of the executive compensation program for our executive officers who are named in the “Summary Compensation Table” below. In 2024, our “named executive officers” and their positions were as follows:

• Rodney Tyler Page, Chief Executive Officer;

• Edward Farrell, Chief Financial Officer;

• Patrick Kelly, Co-President and Chief Operating Officer; and

• William Iwaschuk, Co-President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary.

This discussion may contain forward-looking statements that are based on our current plans, considerations, expectations and determinations regarding future compensation programs. Actual compensation programs that we adopt may differ materially from the currently planned programs summarized in this discussion.

#### Summary Compensation Table
The following table sets forth information concerning the compensation of our named executive officers for the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.

| Name and Principal Position                               |     | Year |     |      |     | Salary 
 ($)(1) |         |     |