A solo Bitcoin miner hit the jackpot and validated a solo block with a single Bitaxe mining rig, marking a uncommon win that beat large statistical odds.
The retail Bitcoin miner secured a 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) block reward, presently value about $200,000, on Friday at block quantity 957382, according to blockchain information from mempool.area.
The miner was utilizing a single Bitaxe mining rig, according to the BTC mining pool Public Pool. The Bitaxe was a funds, lower-power Bitcoin miner that prices lower than $200 and has a hashrate of about 1 terahash per second (TH/s), which is a tiny fraction of the worldwide Bitcoin community.
The solo block reward exhibits that even a sub-$200 funding in a mining rig can result in a statistically uncommon payday for retail miners.
One other solo Bitcoin miner validated a solo block in April, via CKPool’s solo mining service. Earlier in February, one other retail miner validated a solo block using rented hashrate from a mining supplier, which means that he didn’t personal the bodily mining rig that solved the block.
Supply: Public Pool
Solo BTC miners bag $4.7 million through the previous yr
Whereas mining a solo block is statistically uncommon, this marks the twelfth Bitcoin block validated by a hobby-level miner up to now in 2026, pushing the previous 12 months’ complete payouts to greater than $4.7 million for retail miners.
Solo block stats, one-year. Supply: Bennet.org
Solo blocks mined elevated by 41% year-on-year, as solo miners have validated a complete of 24 blocks through the previous yr, according to solo miner information aggregator Bennet. This brings complete rewards paid to solo miners to 75.4 Bitcoin, or $4.7 million, for the previous yr.
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The typical interval for solo Bitcoin blocks stands at 15.2 days, whereas the longest drought and not using a profitable solo block stands at 58 days.
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