{"id":8137,"date":"2026-04-06T11:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:18:36","slug":"tiny-bitcoin-miner-defies-odds-scores-210k-block-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=8137","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Bitcoin Miner Defies Odds, Scores $210K Block Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  • A solo Bitcoin miner with a relatively small setup beat steep odds to earn about $210,000 worth of BTC rewards last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Despite having only a tiny fraction of the network\u2019s total hashrate, the miner secured the reward, highlighting the rare but recurring phenomenon of solo miner wins.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Despite the highly competitive and commercialised nature of Bitcoin mining, little guys can still reap the rewards \u2014 as shown by the success of a tiny set-up that earned US$210,000 (AU$304k) worth of BTC for mining block 943,411 on April 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    The windfall went to a solo miner using the CKPool service, which lets individuals mine Bitcoin without running a full node, for a 2% fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Data from block explorer mempool.space shows the miner earned a total subsidy of 3.19 Bitcoin, which included fees of 0.014 BTC (US$940\/AU$1.3k).\u00a0<\/p>\n

    CKPool developer Con Kolivas posted a congratulatory message to the miner on X and highlighted that a miner of this size has about a one-in-28,000 chance per day of solving a block.<\/p>\n

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    Kolivas said it was the 312th solo block mined on CKPool.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    The Bennet solo block tracker shows that 21 blocks have been solved by solo operators across various solo pools in the past 12 months, with solo miners collecting over US$4.5 million (AU$6.5m) in rewards.<\/p>\n

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    Related: Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Slides as Storm Fallout and AI Shift Weigh on Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Small Rigs Compete Against Mammoth Miners<\/h2>\n

    What\u2019s surprising about solo miners that beat the odds is the incredible difference between individual hashing power and what major miners are capable of.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    The successful miner\u2019s operation was running around 230 terahashes per second (TH\/s) \u2014 where a terahash represents one trillion hashes\/calculations per second. Bitcoin\u2019s total hashrate was around 1 zetahash per second (one sextillion per second) at the time of writing \u2014 making the winning operation\u2019s computational power around 0.00002%.<\/p>\n

    By comparison, data from BitcoinMiningStock shows that leading publicly-traded Bitcoin mining companies report hashrates that exceed 30 exahashes per second (EH\/s). An exahash represents computing power equal to one quintillion computations per second.<\/p>\n

    Related: MARA Shares Jump 15% Despite $1.7B Loss as Bitcoin Miner Bets Big on AI Data Centers<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Nasdaq-listed Bitdeer Technologies has an operating hashrate of 68 EH\/s, while MARA Holdings has a hashrate of 61.70 EH\/s.<\/p>\n

    This latest win by a solo miner isn\u2019t the smallest hashpower to prevail \u2014 in late 2025, a CKPool miner running just 6 TH\/s solved a block, giving the miner roughly one-in-180 million daily odds of success.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

    Bitcoin,Bitcoin Mining#Tiny #Bitcoin #Miner #Defies #Odds #Scores #210K #Block #Reward1775474316<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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