- A solo Bitcoin miner has landed a 3.139 BTC reward worth roughly $210,000 after solving a block through CKpool.
- The miner was running around 230 TH/s, giving the setup roughly 1-in-28,000 odds of finding a block on any given day.
A solo Bitcoin miner has just pulled off one of the rarer wins in the mining game. The miner, connected to solo.ckpool.org, solved a Bitcoin block and collected a total reward of 3.139 BTC.
That haul included the standard 3.125 BTC block subsidy and another 0.014 BTC in transaction fees, worth about $937 at the time. All in, the payout came to roughly $210,000.
A small rig, a big hit
What makes the block find stand out is the scale behind it. According to CKpool developer Con Kolivas, the winning miner was running about 230 terahashes per second. In today’s Bitcoin mining landscape, that is modest stuff, especially compared with the industrial-scale operations that usually dominate block production.
Kolivas said a miner of that size has roughly a 1-in-28,000 chance of solving a block on any given day. That puts the win squarely in long-shot territory. Not impossible, obviously. Just rare enough that the market still pays attention when it happens.
He also noted that this was the 312th solo block solved through solo.ckpool.org, the anonymous solo mining pool that has been around since 2014.
The solo mining lottery is still alive
CKpool’s solo service is built for miners who want a direct shot at the full block reward rather than the smaller, steadier payouts that come from traditional mining pools. The trade-off is simple. You can wait a very long time and get nothing, or you can hit a full block and take home the whole reward minus the pool’s 2% fee.
That structure keeps solo mining in a strange place inside Bitcoin. It is not the efficient route for most operators, and nobody serious would call it predictable, but it still holds a certain appeal. Every now and then, a smaller miner beats the odds and reminds the market that even in a network ruled by hashpower, variance still has a say.
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