Against All Odds, Solo Bitcoin Miner Banks $282,000 After Securing An Entire Block Reward ⋆ ZyCrypto
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  A lucky solo Bitcoin miner beat a swathe of powerful mining pools to receive a $282,000 reward after successfully mining a whole block on Thursday. Independent miners solving blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain network is a rare accomplishment, but still not impossible in 2025. Lone Wolf BTC Miner Attains Ultra-Rare Feat The miner collected a total of 3.133 BTC ($284,661) for mining block 927,474, using solo bitcoin-mining software from CKpool, according to the Bitcoin explorer Mempool. This comprised 3.125 BTC in block subsidy rewards ($283,944) and 0.008 BTC ($689) in transaction fees. “Congratulations to miner 1Ng9~VoQz with 270TH for solving the 311th solo block at solo.ckpool.org!” CKpool developer Con Kolivas wrote in a post on X. “A miner of this size has a 1 in 30,000 chance of solving a block per day.” This equates to roughly once every 82 years. Bitcoin blocks are produced roughly every 10 minutes and are typically mined by mining pools, which combine computing power to give them the best possible chance of pocketing the block reward. The reward to successfully mine a block currently sits at 3.125 BTC, after the fourth halving event in April 2024. With Bitcoin’s hashrate being dominated by institutional miners with immense computing power, the chances of an individual miner snagging a block are quite slim. However, with efficient hardware and a heavy dose of luck, even smaller players can score the same block rewards in rare instances. Advertisement
  For this particular miner, the hashrate was split between three Bitcoin mining machines with around 90 TH/s each, Kolivas noted, which is roughly consistent with the output of standard Bitmain Antminer S19 air-cooled ASICs. The lone miner’s hashpower is equivalent to approximately 0.00002% of Bitcoin’s total estimated hashrate of 1.15 ZH/s on Dec. 11, Mempool’s…
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