Another solo miner finds a Bitcoin block

On September 6, a solo miner with a 270 TH/s rig mined block #752,868 in the Bitcoin blockchain. This was reported by CKPool administrator Con Kolivas.

Congratulations to a miner 15Hgp1dLmdNfZCYVysikTsJXoEL3kMpPz3 with 270TH who solved a solo block at https://t.co/UWgBvLkDqc ! https://t.co/nRGGBCP2Ua

— Dr. Con Kolivas (@ckpooldev) September 6, 2022

The miner received a reward for the found block of 6.25 BTC and 0.097 BTC in transaction fees (roughly $126,860 in total). 2% of these funds go to the pool.

As of September 4, the Bitcoin network’s aggregate hash rate reached 223.9 EH/s (seven-day moving average smoothed), according to Glassnode.

The metric is returning to the maximum mark, recorded on June 11 — 231 EH/s.

On August 31, after another recalibration, the mining difficulty increased by 9.26%, to 30.97 T. This marked the second-largest increase in the metric for the year so far. The maximum difficulty reached on May 11 (31.25 T) on the eve of the crypto-market slump sparked by the Terra crash.

In January, CKPool clients solo-mined Bitcoin blocks three times. In these cases their mining powers were 126 TH/s, 116 TH/s and 86 TH/s.

In February, a pool user with hash rate an order of magnitude higher — 1.14 PH/s.

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