Cipher Mining

Good (3.5/5)https://www.ciphermining.com/

Cipher Mining has pivoted from Bitcoin self-mining to HPC data centers built for hyperscale AI/cloud customers (now branded Cipher Digital). It has never offered third-party ASIC hosting.

⚠ Regulator warnings

  • iosco — I-SCAN alert by New Zealand - Financial Markets Authority (2026-07-06): Cipher Mining View list →

BBB Profile

Accreditation: UnknownLetter rating: Complaints (3 yrs):

Locations

3
  • facility — Odessa, United States(exact)

    Odessa data center, Texas

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  • facility — Happy, United States(exact)

    Alborz facility (near Happy, Randall County, Texas)

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  • facility — Andrews, United States(exact)

    Bear & Chief facilities (near Andrews, Texas)

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  • office — New York, United States(exact)

    New York HQ

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  • facility — Wink, United States(exact)

    Wink, Winkler County, Texas ("Black Pearl", 300 MW, AWS lease)

  • facility — Colorado City, United States(exact)

    Colorado City, Mitchell County, Texas ("Barber Lake", 300→800 MW)

  • facility — Andrews, United States(exact)

    Stingray facility (Andrews, Texas, 100 MW)

  • facility — Cotulla, United States(exact)

    Cotulla, La Salle County, Texas ("Reveille", 70→200 MW)

  • facility — Brady, United States(exact)

    Brady, McCulloch County, Texas ("Mikeska", 500 MW target)

  • facility — Riesel, United States(exact)

    Riesel, McLennan County, Texas ("McLennan" site, 500 MW target)

⚖️ Regulatory

Checked against 4 regulator sources — no warnings found.

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  • IOSCO Investor Alerts:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

    Not named on IOSCO’s Investor Alerts Portal as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

  • UK FCA Warning List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

    Not named on the UK FCA Warning List as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

  • US SEC PAUSE List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

    Not named on the SEC PAUSE list as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

  • US CFTC RED List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗

    Not named on the CFTC RED List as of 2026-07-10 (checked by name and domain). Scored 5.0/5 under this project's pass/fail convention for regulator lists: clean = 5.0, listed = 1.0.

🛡️ Trust SignalsA-

Checked against 4 trust signals — see the per-source breakdown below.

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  • ScamAdviser:4.0/5(Likely Safe (redirects to cipherdigital.com))· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗
  • Website Exists:5.0/5(A)· checked Sep 3, 2026view ↗
  • Website Freshness:4.2/5(80%)· checked Sep 3, 2026view ↗
  • Site History:5.0/5(since 2018)· checked Aug 25, 2026view ↗

Google Search SummaryC

No substantive complaints or notable lawsuits were found for Cipher Mining beyond routine "ordinary course of business" litigation disclosed in SEC filings. Consistent with its earlier-identified pivot away from Bitcoin self-mining into HPC data centers — not a third-party hosting provider.

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Reddit SummaryC

Cipher Mining (Nasdaq: CIFR) generates almost entirely investor/stock discourse — trading-signal bot spam, earnings coverage, and major AI/HPC infrastructure deal news (a $5.5B AWS lease, a Google/Fluidstack colocation deal, a joint 1GW site venture) reflecting its pivot from pure Bitcoin mining toward AI data-center hosting. No hosting-customer complaints or reviews found, consistent with it not being a direct-to-retail hosting service.

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Bitcointalk SummaryB

Bitcointalk's general (non-Scam-Accusations) mining/news/investor boards show extensive coverage of Cipher Mining (Nasdaq: CIFR) spanning 2022-2026: routine operational reporting (SEC filing links, monthly BTC-production updates), facility/expansion milestones (a completed facility reported 2022, a 7.1 EH/s hashrate acquisition announced late 2022), recognition as a zero-emission/off-grid mining provider, and its 2025-2026 pivot toward AI/HPC hosting (a Fluidstack colocation deal for 168MW of critical IT load, a $5.5B AI infrastructure contract, and a $2B debt issuance to fund AI buildout) — consistent with the reddit_summary and google_search_summary already on file. No scam-accusation or fraud threads found against the company across a broad search; the few Scam-Accusations-board hits that surfaced were unrelated word collisions on 'cipher' (a different forum user's handle, and general cryptography/encryption discussion), not accusations against Cipher Mining.

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