A lone miner mined a Bitcoin block and earned $260,000.
A solo miner on CKpool mined block 924,569 of the Bitcoin network and received a reward of 3,146 BTC. This is approximately $266,000, according to pool developer and administrator Con Kolivas.
CKpool is one of the oldest solo mining pools in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Con Kolivas said that for a solo miner to mine a block is extremely unlikely these days. According to the administrator, the lucky miner was working at around 6 TH/s—a tiny fraction of the network's total hashrate, approximately 0.0000006%.
Kolivas estimated the chances of a solo miner's success at 1 in 1.2 million. The administrator described the block mining by small miners mining cryptocurrency as a hobby, similar to winning the lottery jackpot—a “rare and exciting event for the entire industry.”
In 2025, CKpool reported 13 such cases among its solo customers.
Based on Kolivas' stated hardware power of 6 TH/s, it's safe to assume the lone miner used an old, but still functional, Antminer S9 or a new mini-miner like the Bitaxe, which enthusiast miners connect to CKpool “for luck.”
JPMorgan previously stated that the share of Bitcoin's hashrate owned by American public mining companies exceeded 26%.
Источник: cryptocurrency.tech
