Solo miner lands rare Bitcoin bounty after solving block 924,569
The post Solo miner lands rare Bitcoin bounty after solving block 924, 569 appeared com. A small-scale solo Bitcoin miner secured block 924, 569’s reward on Friday, earning 3. 146 BTC, including fees, equivalent to roughly $265,000 at current market prices, according to data from crypto mining analytics platform mempool. space. The miner reportedly contributed six terahashes per second (TH/s) of computing power to the network to find the block and submitted a difficulty of 1. 17Q. For context, one TH equals 1 trillion hashes per second. The Bitcoin network recently reached an average hash rate exceeding 855 exahashes per second (EH/s), or 855 quintillion hashes per second. 🚨SOLO BLOCK FOUND A home miner with only ~6. 73TH/s of total hashrate just mined a block for 3. 146 BTC totaling $264,558. pic. twitter. com/ttmTzzCkfh Solosatoshi. com 🇺🇲 (@SoloSatoshi) November 21, 2025 Looking at the odds of a miner with such limited power capturing a block, per data from solo mining resources facilitator CKPool, they had less than a 1 in 100, 000 chance per day of earning the reward. A high-end Antminer S21 generating 200 TH/s would, on average, take 57 years to mine a single block under today’s network conditions. Solo Bitcoin miner reaps rewards against impossible odds CKPool said this is the 308th solo block mined using its software and the first in roughly three months. Netizens on X are calling it one of the luckiest solo-mined blocks in recent Bitcoin history, after another solo miner overcame 1 in 1. 3 million odds using 126 TH/s of computing power when the network hash rate stood at approximately 170 EH/s in 2022. “Every single Bitcoin block comes down to one ASIC chip getting lucky. Today it was theirs. Tomorrow. why not yours?” said UK-based Bitcoin miners seller The Solo Mining Co. In April, if a solo miner used a 1. 2 TH/s rig, the estimated daily probability of mining a block was just 0. 00068390%. Adjusting.