Company: CIFRW
Filing Date: 2025-10-06
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001819989-25-000096
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Company: Cipher Mining Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-06
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 owner, you have the right to direct your broker, bank or other holder of record on how to vote your shares by following their instructions for voting. Please refer to information from your bank, broker or other nominee on how to submit your voting instructions. To participate in the Special Meeting online at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/CIFR2025SM, you will need the sixteen-digit control number included on your proxy card or the instructions that accompanied your proxy materials. If you did not receive a control number, please contact your bank or broker directly.

How many shares must be present to hold the Special Meeting?

A quorum must be present at the Special Meeting for any business to be conducted. The holders of a majority in voting power of the Company’s capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, present electronically or represented by proxy constitutes a quorum. If you sign and return your paper proxy card or authorize a proxy to vote electronically or telephonically, your shares will be counted to determine whether we have a quorum even if you abstain or fail to vote as indicated in the proxy materials.

Broker non-votes will also be considered present for the purpose of determining whether there is a quorum for the Special Meeting.

#### What are “broker non-votes”?
A “broker non-vote” occurs when shares held by a broker in “street name” for a beneficial owner are not voted with respect to a proposal because (1) the broker has not received voting instructions from the stockholder who beneficially owns the shares and (2) the broker lacks the authority to vote the shares at their discretion. Under the applicable rules, the Charter Amendment Proposal is a “routine” matter. Accordingly, brokers, banks or other nominees can vote on this proposal without instructions from beneficial owners and there will not be any broker non-votes in respect of this proposal.

What if a quorum is not present at the Special Meeting?

If a quorum is not present or represented at the scheduled time of the Special Meeting, (i) the chairperson of the Special Meeting or (ii) a majority in voting power of the stockholders entitled to vote at the Special Meeting, present in person or electronically, if applicable, or represented by proxy, may adjourn the Special Meeting until a quorum is present or represented.

How do I vote my shares before the Special Meeting?

We recommend that stockholders vote by proxy prior to the Special Meeting even if they plan to attend the Special Meeting. If you are a stockholder of record, there are