Odessa miner purchases to fill capacity by end of 2023
Company: Cipher Mining
What the later record shows
Outcome not yet confirmed
No passage reports about 10,800 miners being bought for Odessa. The October 2023 S21 order of 1.2 EH/s is not linked to Odessa, and it was still being shipped in 2024.
Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Anticipate purchasing approximately 10,800 additional miners to fill out Odessa capacity before end of 2023
Source (primary)
Cipher Mining 10-K filed 2023-03-14 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “We anticipate purchasing additional miners to fill out that capacity before the end of 2023.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The 10-K says filling the remaining Odessa capacity could take about 10,800 more miners, and that the company anticipated buying miners to fill that capacity before the end of 2023. The 10,800 figure assumes MicroBT M50 rigs.
Confirmed in the source:
- Cipher anticipated purchasing additional miners to fill out the remaining Odessa capacity before the end of 2023
- Filling the remaining approximately 35 MW at Odessa could require approximately 10,800 additional miners
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819989/000095017023007793/cifr-20221231.htm) in full (564,500 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Cipher Mining 10-K filed 2023-03-14
Quote: “We anticipate purchasing additional miners to fill out that capacity before the end of 2023.”