#cifr Community Insights & Market Sentiment

$CIFR plunged from yesterday’s close of 13.00 to 10.89 in the first half-hour of U.S. trading tonight, down 16%, with an intraday low of 10.68—a one-year low. At the same time, Bitcoin was still up 0.5% over 24 hours, while comparable miners like $IREN , HUT, CLSK, and WULF were down only 4% to 5%. This selloff has little to do with the price of Bitcoin; it was triggered by the company’s own debt issuance.

Before the market opened today, Cipher announced a private offering of $850 million in zero-coupon convertible notes due 2032, with the underwriters also holding an option to purchase an additional $150 million. The company also plans to exchange some of its existing convertible notes due 2030 for shares. At the current price, its market cap is about $4.5 billion, so the full $1 billion offering is equivalent to more than 20% of its market cap. The company says it will use some of the proceeds to buy capped call options to mitigate dilution—which itself shows it knows shareholders will be diluted.

Who was forced to sell? Convertible-bond buyers are mostly arbitrage funds. They short the common stock to hedge their bond positions, creating forced selling that has nothing to do with fundamentals. Trading volume in the first five minutes after the open was 11.41 million shares; after 33 minutes, cumulative volume had reached 29.38 million, already close to 90% of the 20-day average of 33.22 million.

Technically, the daily RSI(14) fell from 32.2 to 25.8, and the closing price broke below the lower Bollinger Band at 11.82. The 12-day EMA is still at 14.35, more than 30% above the current price. There’s a gap overhead between 12.88 and 13.00: one end is the October 8 low, the other is yesterday’s close. What used to be support is now resistance. From its June 22 high of 30.14, the stock has already fallen 64%.

A quick review of one call: This morning I said CIEN failing to hold 403 wasn’t a dip-buying opportunity. Tonight it’s at 390.75, another 3.5% lower, so that call is holding up for now.

My take: CIFR’s drop today is a financing event, not a sign that the mining sector is weakening. Hedging-related selling is likely concentrated around the offering’s pricing. Before the conversion price and premium are announced, I wouldn’t treat 10.68—the new low—as the bottom. Only if the price can fill the gap to 13.00 after pricing is finalized will that indicate the forced selling is over. I’m currently flat CIFR and will reassess once the pricing announcement comes out.

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