{"id":94661,"date":"2026-02-24T18:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=94661"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:20:37","slug":"75-investment-yields-3-125-btc-for-solo-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/75-investment-yields-3-125-btc-for-solo-miner\/","title":{"rendered":"$75 Investment Yields 3.125 BTC for Solo Miner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 24, a solo miner successfully mined block #938092 on the Bitcoin network, earning a reward of 3.125 BTC (approximately $196,650 at the current rate).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca5BREAKING<\/p>\n<p>A miner just found a 3.125 BTC block using on-demand hashrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1 PH\/s rented<br \/>\u2022 119k sats (~$75) spent<br \/>\u2022 Block 938092<br \/>\u2022 Worker: spiral<br \/>\u2022 Hashpower fees: 0<br \/>\u2022 Solo fee: 0.5% (CKPool open-source contribution)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! Try Hashpower today. Link in bio\ud83c\udf40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S1F4MfuHPN\">pic.twitter.com\/S1F4MfuHPN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Braiins (@Braiins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Braiins\/status\/2026257137010106412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Braiins, the user&#8217;s expenses amounted to just $75. The miner did not use personal equipment but instead spent 119,000 satoshis ($75) to rent 1 PH\/s of power and paid a small fee.<\/p>\n<p>The Braiins pool supports solo mining using CKPool platform software. The latter&#8217;s administrator, Kol Kolivas, noted that this block was the first mined under their partnership.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Braiins solo mining for solving their first solo block running ckpool! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Braiins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Braiins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AExl6NaSdl\">https:\/\/t.co\/AExl6NaSdl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/2026207508461912181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Data from the Bennet aggregator indicates that solo blocks are typically found once every 17.2 days. However, the frequency of such occurrences is increasing. Over the past year, 21 solo miners have successfully mined a block.<\/p>\n<p>In total, they have earned 66 BTC. Compared to the previous year, the number of solo blocks found has increased by 17%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6fc6301b5f9980b2-7162436454494760-1024x602.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a \u044d\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430 2026-02-24 174447\" class=\"wp-image-275742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6fc6301b5f9980b2-7162436454494760-1024x602.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6fc6301b5f9980b2-7162436454494760-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6fc6301b5f9980b2-7162436454494760-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6fc6301b5f9980b2-7162436454494760.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bennet.org\/resources\/solo-block-tracker\/\">Bennet<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">the mining difficulty<\/a> of Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/mining-difficulty-rebounds-by-15-as-hash-price-falls-below-30\">increased<\/a> by 14.73% to 144.4 T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 24, a solo miner successfully mined block #938092 on the Bitcoin network, earning a reward of 3.125 BTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94662,"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 3.125 BTC from $75 investment.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1137],"class_list":["post-94661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"301","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Solo miner earns 3.125 BTC from $75 investment.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94661","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=94661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94663,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94661\/revisions\/94663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}