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*DJ Cipher Mining Inc., A Newly Formed US-based Bitcoin Mining Company, To Become A Publicly Traded Company Via A Merger With Good Works Acquisition Corp. GWAC
6:46 am ET March 5, 2021 (Dow Jones) Print
2021-03-05 11:46:00 GMT Press Release: Cipher Mining Inc., a Newly Formed US-based Bitcoin Mining Company, to Become a Publicly Traded Company via a Merger with Good Works Acquisition Corp.
Cipher Mining Inc., a Newly Formed US-based Bitcoin Mining Company, to Become a Publicly Traded Company via a Merger with Good Works Acquisition Corp.
-- Transaction builds a U.S. based Bitcoin mining champion
-- Combined company valued at an enterprise value of $2.0 billion
-- Includes $425 million fully committed PIPE investment, secured with
anchor investors, including Fidelity Management & Research Company and
Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley)
-- The PIPE investment includes $50 million investment-in-kind from Cipher
Mining's parent company, Bitfury, and is structured as a credit for
future purchases of operating services and equipment for Cipher
-- Planned mining capacity of 745MW by the end of 2025 and industry leading
cost of energy of approximately 2.7c/kWh
-- The transaction is anticipated to close in Q2 2021
HOUSTON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 05, 2021--
Cipher Mining Technologies Inc. ("Cipher Mining"), a newly formed U.S.-based Bitcoin mining operation, and Good Works Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: GWAC) ("Good Works"), a U.S. publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, today announced they have entered a definitive agreement for a business combination. Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will be named Cipher Mining Inc. ("Cipher" or the "Company") and is expected to be listed on the Nasdaq under the new ticker symbol "CIFR".
Company Highlights
Cipher Mining is a newly formed subsidiary of Bitfury Top HoldCo B.V. ("Bitfury" and, together with its subsidiaries, including Bitfury Holding B.V., "Bitfury Group"). The Bitfury Group is a leading provider of Bitcoin mining hardware and other blockchain software and services. Since its inception in 2011, Bitfury Group has deployed more than 500+ MW of computing power and mined more than 600 thousand Bitcoin. As a stand-alone company, Cipher is expected to be positioned as a U.S.-centric Bitcoin mining champion with potential to reach a cumulative deployed capacity of 745MW by the end of 2025. The Company's U.S.-based data centers are planned to come on-line between Q4 2021 and Q2 2022 with a total of 445MW of power capacity and planned expansion of an additional 300MW deployed between 2023 and 2025. As the projected largest scale mining platform in the U.S., Cipher will provide investors the opportunity to invest in the Bitcoin industry via a leading mining company operating in a highly transparent and well-regulated environment.
Cipher's contractual relationship with Bitfury Group is also expected to provide the Company with compelling value via access to best-in-class mining equipment and proven on-site operations development, management and maintenance experience.
Good Works' Co-Chairman, Doug Wurth, commented, "The Good Works team collectively has a long history in the alternative asset markets. We were attracted to Cipher Mining as we believe the Bitcoin mining space represents a compelling way to gain risk-adjusted exposure to the growing crypto ecosystem. We brought to the table experience in power hosting arrangements, which gave us a clear-eyed view of the advantages of Cipher Mining's power contracts, and the extraordinary value of its partnership with Bitfury Group. Cipher Mining's management team and the size of its operations will enable it to execute well across many price environments, and we are excited to help them become the leading Bitcoin mining company in the United States."
Tyler Page, Cipher Mining's CEO continued, "Historically, the Bitcoin mining industry featured smaller, poorly capitalized, less experienced companies that were not fully equipped to manage the underlying price swings associated with Bitcoin. With this transaction, we will be able to combine the formidable skill sets and technologies developed by Bitfury Group over the past 10 years with what we believe will be a leadership position on the global cost curve, and thereby create a true leader in the Bitcoin mining industry. We believe that our U.S. domicile provides us additional advantages of low-cost, reliable power and a transparent, stable and secure regulatory and corporate environment. This combination of factors positions us to become the leading Bitcoin miner and also enables future vertical integration opportunities across the Bitcoin ecosystem."
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