On 20 January, a solo miner with only 10 TH/s hash rate mined block #772 793 in the Bitcoin blockchain. This was reported by CKPool administrator Con Kolivas.
Congratulations to miner 1CEmkQkgiCMx6DHSDkHi53mL8oEthCZSw with only 10TH who solved a solo block at https://t.co/UWgBvLkDqc ! https://t.co/0O7A7KR4eu
— Dr. Con Kolivas (@ckpooldev) January 20, 2023
According to Glassnode, the network hash rate at that moment stood at 273.2 EH/s (smoothed seven-day moving average). The miner’s share of this metric was 0.000000036%.
With the current Bitcoin difficulty, a miner of this size should find a solo block roughly once every 500 years, which makes this event unique in his life,
said Kolivas.
A miner of this size should only find a block solo about once every 500 years at the current bitcoin difficulty, making this a once-in-a-lifetime lucky event for them.
— Dr. Con Kolivas (@ckpooldev) January 20, 2023
After the latest recalculation on January 16, mining difficulty sits at the maximum level of 37.59 TH.
Readers in the comments urged the lucky miner to play the lottery.
As reported in September 2022, found a solo block by a miner with hash power an order of magnitude greater—270 TH/s. In April, luck smiled on a CKPool user with a hash rate closer to 60 TH/s.
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