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Jan 2, 2026 12:10 PM

Bitmine Publishes New Chairman's Message Explaining Why Shareholders Should Vote YES to Approve the Amendment to Increase Authorized Shares

BMNR shareholders are encouraged to review the Chairman's message and vote on the 4 proposals prior to the January 14, 2026 deadline

Bitmine will hold its Annual Stockholder Meeting at the Wynn Las Vegas on January 15, 2026

Bitmine remains supported by a premier group of institutional investors including ARK's Cathie Wood, MOZAYYX, Founders Fund, Bill Miller III, Pantera, Kraken, DCG, Galaxy Digital and personal investor Thomas "Tom" Lee to support Bitmine's goal of acquiring 5% of ETH

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:BMNR) today announced the release of a new Chairman's message (link) outlining why shareholders are being asked to vote YES on a proposal to increase the Company's authorized shares. The message is now available on the Bitmine website and is intended to provide additional context ahead of the upcoming shareholder vote.

The voting deadline is January 14, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

In the video, Chairman Tom Lee explains the rationale behind Proposal 2, which seeks shareholder approval to amend the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase authorized shares from 500 million to 50 billion.

There are three reasons the Company needs to increase authorized shares:

It would allow Bitmine to conduct capital markets activities, including at-the-market offerings, convertibles, and warrants.

It would provide flexibility to pursue opportunistic deals, including potential mergers or acquisitions.

Most importantly, it would enable the Company to implement future stock splits as needed.

Since pivoting in July to make Ethereum (ETH) its primary treasury asset, Bitmine has observed that its share price has closely tracked movements in ETH.

*Coefficient (per Bloomberg) is 0.015 ETH price plus accretion of ETH/share

The scatter chart in the gallery above shows the clear linkage (x-axis is ETH, y-axis is BMNR).

The Company believes Ethereum represents the future of finance, a supercycle driven by Wall Street reengineering on the blockchain. Major industry leaders agree, including Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, who said that tokenization is the next evolution of global markets. And the vast majority of tokenization is happening on Ethereum.

Previously, Bitmine noted its view that tokenization will drive ETH/BTC to reach all-time highs (0.0873).

Targeting 0.25 as Ethereum proves to be the future of finance

This implies future ETH prices of:

$12k

$22k (prior high)

$62k (0.25, "payment rails")

$250k (if BTC reaches ...