Stockholders' Equity | NOTE 14. STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY As of March 31, 2024 , 510,000,000 shares with a par value of $ 0.001 per share are authorized, of which, 500,000,000 shares are designated as Common Stock and 10,000,000 shares are designated as preferred stock (“Preferred Stock”). Common Stock Holders of each share of Common Stock are entitled to dividends when, as and if declared by the Board. As of the issuance of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, the Company had not declared any dividends. The holder of each share of Common Stock is entitled to one vote . The voting, dividend, liquidation and other rights and powers of the Common Stock are subject to and qualified by the rights, powers and preferences of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, for which there currently are none outstanding. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company issued 2,059,390 shares of Common Stock to officers, employees and consultants in settlement of an equal number of fully vested RSUs awarded to these individuals, and 66,941 shares of Common Stock to directors, pursuant to grants made under the Cipher Mining Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan (the “Incentive Award Plan”). The Company immediately repurchased 787,098 of these shares of Common Stock from officers and employees, with a fair value of approximately $ 3.2 million , to cover taxes related to the settlement of vested RSUs, as permitted by the Incentive Award Plan. The Company placed the repurchased shares in treasury stock. At-the-Market Sales Agreement On September 21, 2022, the Company filed with the SEC a shelf registration statement on Form S-3, which was declared effective on October 6, 2022 (the “Registration Statement”). In connection with the filing of the Registration Statement, the Company also entered into an at the market offering agreement (the “Prior Sales Agreement”) with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (the “Prior Agent”), under which the Company may, from time to time, sell shares of its Common Stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $ 250.0 million in “at the market” offerings through the Prior Agent. Effective August 1, 2023, the Company terminated the Prior Sales Agreement. On August 3, 2023, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity Offering SM Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Canaccord Genuity LLC, Needham & Company, LLC and Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC (each, an “Original Agent” and, together, the “Original Agents”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time through or to the Agents, shares of its Common Stock, for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $ 250.0 million (the “Shares”). The offering and sale of up to $ 250.0 million of the Shares has been registered under the Registrati on Statement, the base prospectus contained within the Registration Statement, and a prospectus supplement that was filed with the SEC on August 4, 2023 (the “Prospectus Supplement”). On March 6, 2024, the Company entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Sales Agreement (as amended, the “Amended Sales Agreement”) by and among the Original Agents, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated (“Stifel”) and Virtu Americas LLC (“Virtu”) (each of the Original Agents, Stifel and Virtu, an “Agent” and, together, the “Agents”) . The Amendment modifies the Sales Agreement to include Stifel and Virtu as additional agents under the Amended Sales Agreement. On March 6, 2024, the Company also filed an amendment to the Prospectus Supplement (i) increasing the dollar amount of shares available to be sold pursuant to the Amended Sales Agreement, to $ 296,560,661 , which consists of $ 96,560,661 remaining as originally authorized under the Prospectus Supplement and an additional $ 200,000,000 , and (ii) including Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and Virtu Americas LLC as additional Agents. Pursuant to the Sales Agreement, the Agent selected by the Company (such Agent, the “Designated Agent”) may sell the Shares in sales deemed to be “at the market offerings” as defined in Rule 415(a)(4) promulgated under the Securities Act. The Company has no obligation to sell any of the Shares under the Sales Agreement and may at any time suspend or terminate the offering of the Shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement upon notice and subject to other conditions. The Agents will act as sales agents and will use commercially reasonable efforts to sell on the Company’s behalf all of the Shares requested to be sold by it, on mutually agreed terms between the Agents and the Company. Under the terms of the Sales Agreement, the Company agreed to pay the Designated Agent a commission up to 3.0 % of th e aggregate gross proceeds from any Shares sold through such Designated Agent pursuant to the Sales Agreement. In addition, the Company agreed to reimburse certain expenses incurred by the Agents in connection with the Sales Agreement. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, in connection with the Prior Sales Agreement and the Sales Agreement, the Company received proceeds of approximately $ 64.5 million , net of issuance costs, from the sale of 14,246,235 shares of common stock, with an average net selling price of $ 4.53 p er share. Subsequent to March 31, 2024, the Company received additional proceeds of $ 17.8 million, net of issuance costs, from the sale of 3,362,680 shares of common stock, with an average net selling price of $ 5.29 per share. |