Solo Miner Earns $372,773 for Bitcoin Block Discovery

On the night of July 27, a solo miner independently mined block #907,283 on the Bitcoin network, earning 3.154 BTC (~$372,773) in rewards and fees.

Congratulations to miner 35Wu~yPhF for solving the 303rd solo block at the EU https://t.co/UWgBvLkDqc with only 49TH! https://t.co/Lpf6Tgz6TP
A miner of this size only has a one in 130,000 chance of solving a block per day or once every 370 years on average! pic.twitter.com/B0cz3UOEe6

— Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) July 26, 2025

The participant used the CKpool platform. According to mempool.space, the block contained 4,090 transactions. 

CKPool administrator Con Kolivas noted that the miner was using equipment with a hash rate of 49 TH/s. The likelihood of such an event is approximately 1 in 130,000 per day.

Despite the increasing difficulty of mining reaching record levels, solo miners still occasionally manage to include blocks. On June 5, a solo participant mined block #899,826, earning a reward of 3.151 BTC ($330,386 at the time).

On July 4, another user managed to earn 3.173 BTC ($348,948) for confirming block #903,883.

On July 26, following the latest recalculation, Bitcoin mining difficulty increased by 1.07% to a record high of 127.62 T.