Company: CIFRW
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001819989-25-000090
Chunk: 10

Company: Cipher Mining Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 10
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 Recent Developments
In September 2025, the Company (i) issued warrants to Google LLC (“Google”) exercisable for shares of Common Stock,in connection with a ten-year data center lease agreement with Fluidstack USA I Inc., supported by a financial backstop from Google; and (ii) [issued] convertible senior notes, which are required to be settled in cash until the Company increases the number of its shares of Common Stock authorized for issuance.

As a result of these transactions, the Company has limited remaining capacity to issue shares of Common Stock under its current authorization. The Charter Amendment is intended to restore flexibility for the Company to issue additional Common Stock to support future strategic partnerships, site expansions, acquisitions, financing transactions and equity incentive programs, and to ensure the Company maintains sufficient capacity to pursue growth opportunities and enhance long-term stockholder value.

The full text of the Charter Amendment attached to this Proxy Statement as Appendix A is incorporated herein by reference.

#### Board Recommendation
The Board of Directors unanimously recommends that stockholders vote FOR the approval of the Charter Amendment Proposal.

If the Charter Amendment Proposal is approved by the requisite number of our stockholders, we expect to file the approved Charter Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware promptly after the Special Meeting, which will become effective at the time of the filing.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time prior to the effectiveness of the filing of an approved charter amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, our Board reserves the right to abandon the approved charter amendment and not to file the charter amendment, even if the Charter Amendment is approved by our stockholders, if our Board, in its discretion, determines that the approved Charter Amendment is no longer in the best interests of our Company or our stockholders.

If the Charter Amendment Proposal is not approved by the requisite vote of our stockholders, then the Charter Amendment will not be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and our current Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation will remain in place and our number of authorized shares will remain unchanged.

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### STOCK OWNERSHIP
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

The following table sets forth certain information with respect to holdings of our common stock as of September 12, 2025 by:

• stockholders who beneficially own more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock;

• each of our named executive officers and directors; and

• all directors and executive officers as a group.

The