Company: CIFRW
Filing Date: 2025-05-23
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-125868
Chunk: 53

Company: Cipher Mining Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-23
Form: 424B5
Chunk 53
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 or by the Certificate of Incorporation, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirdsof the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of our capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, will be required to amend or repeal certain provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation. The Board shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws. Any adoption, amendment or repeal of the Bylaws by the Board shall require the approval of a majority of the Board. The stockholders shall also have power to adopt, amend or repeal the Proposed Bylaws. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser or no vote, but in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of our stock required by applicable law or by the Certificate of Incorporation, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirdsof the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of our capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the stockholders to adopt, amend or repeal any provision of the Bylaws. Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) provides that if a person acquires 15% or more of the voting stock of a Delaware corporation, such person becomes an “interested stockholder” and may not engage in certain “business combinations” with the corporation for a period of three years from the time such person acquired 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock, unless:

| 1. | the board of directors approves the acquisition of stock or the merger transaction before the time that the 
 person becomes an interested stockholder;                                                                   |

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| 2. | the interested stockholder owns at least 85% of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation at the time the                     
 merger transaction commences (excluding voting stock owned by directors who are also officers and certain employee stock plans); or |

| 3. | the merger transaction is approved by the board of directors and at a meeting of stockholders, not by written             
 consent, by the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the outstanding voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder. |

A Delaware corporation may elect in its certificate of incorporation or bylaws not to be governed by this particular Delaware law. Under the Certificate of Incorporation, we do not opt out of