{"id":71675,"date":"2025-09-08T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71675"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:25:36","slug":"solo-miner-earns-347980-from-bitcoin-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solo-miner-earns-347980-from-bitcoin-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Miner Earns $347,980 from Bitcoin Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 7, a solo miner successfully mined block #913,593 on the Bitcoin network, earning a reward of 3.13 BTC ($347,980).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to miner bc1q~jr38 for solving the 307th solo block at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWgBvLkDqc\">https:\/\/t.co\/UWgBvLkDqc<\/a>, with only 200TH! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t9icRGzf0K\">https:\/\/t.co\/t9icRGzf0K<\/a><br \/>A miner of this size only has a 1 in ~36,000 chance of solving a block each day, or once every ~100 years!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/1964805627819204764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to mempool.space, the block contained 593 transactions, which brought the miner a total of 0.004 BTC (~$471) in fees or ~$471.<\/p>\n<p>The miner used equipment with a hash rate of 200 TH\/s and the CKPool platform. Pool administrator Con Kolivas noted that the odds with such power were approximately 1 in 36,000 per day, or once every 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>He also reported that this is the 307th block confirmed by solo miners through CKPool. The previous such event <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/1962347578575757752\">occurred<\/a> on September 1, but since then, competition in the network has significantly increased.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mining Difficulty Reaches Record 136 T<\/h2>\n<p>On September 5, following the latest recalculation, the difficulty of the Bitcoin network increased by 4.89%, reaching a historic high of 136.04 T.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Difficulty-BitcoinBTC-CloverPool-The-worlds-leading-multi-currency-mining-pool-and-on-chain-data-service-provider-Google-Chrome-1-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"Difficulty - Bitcoin(BTC) - CloverPool  The worlds leading multi-currency mining pool and on-chain data service provider - Google Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-265207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Difficulty-BitcoinBTC-CloverPool-The-worlds-leading-multi-currency-mining-pool-and-on-chain-data-service-provider-Google-Chrome-1-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Difficulty-BitcoinBTC-CloverPool-The-worlds-leading-multi-currency-mining-pool-and-on-chain-data-service-provider-Google-Chrome-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Difficulty-BitcoinBTC-CloverPool-The-worlds-leading-multi-currency-mining-pool-and-on-chain-data-service-provider-Google-Chrome-1-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Difficulty-BitcoinBTC-CloverPool-The-worlds-leading-multi-currency-mining-pool-and-on-chain-data-service-provider-Google-Chrome-1.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.cloverpool.com\/ru\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">CloverPool<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The metric has risen for the fifth consecutive time. The inter-block interval remains consistently below the algorithm&#8217;s intended 10 minutes, with preliminary forecasts indicating further increases in difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=BTC&#038;category=&#038;ema=0&#038;m=mining.HashRateMean&#038;mAvg=7&#038;mMedian=0&#038;s=1659268705&#038;u=1674993505&#038;zoom=182\">Glassnode<\/a>, the hash rate (<span data-descr=\"indicator smoothed by a seven-day moving average\" class=\"old_tooltip\">7 DMA<\/span>) surpassed the significant milestone of 1 ZH\/s at the end of August. At the time of writing, the parameter adjusted to 973 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_btc-mean-hash-rate-8-1024x507.png\" alt=\"glassnode-studio_btc-mean-hash-rate\" class=\"wp-image-265208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_btc-mean-hash-rate-8-1024x507.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_btc-mean-hash-rate-8-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_btc-mean-hash-rate-8-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_btc-mean-hash-rate-8-1536x760.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_btc-mean-hash-rate-8-2048x1013.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in GoMining, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/gomining-predicts-renewed-bitcoin-mining-hype\">a new hype around Bitcoin mining was predicted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 7, a solo miner successfully mined block #913,593 on the Bitcoin network, earning a reward of 3.13 BTC ($347,980).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Solo miner earns $347,980 from Bitcoin block.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,1279],"class_list":["post-71675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-hashrate-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"325","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Solo miner earns $347,980 from Bitcoin block.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71677,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71675\/revisions\/71677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}