{"id":96058,"date":"2026-04-09T17:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=96058"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:45:15","slug":"solo-miner-strikes-bitcoin-block-earns-222000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solo-miner-strikes-bitcoin-block-earns-222000\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Miner Strikes Bitcoin Block, Earns $222,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A solo miner with a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">hashrate<\/a> of merely 70 TH\/s successfully mined block #944,306 on the Bitcoin network. The reward amounted to 3.128 BTC ($222,074).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-b7e67c764e5f497b-1346974383837776.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-278226\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/block\/000000000000000000012d5e7b4745f92b9cd60241854e38be68d9b182feabcb\">mempool.space<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The participant also received an additional 0.003 BTC ($212) in transaction fees. The block contained 6,755 transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CKPool administrator Con Kolivas stated that the chance of generating a blockchain unit with such equipment is approximately 1 in 100,000 per day. On average, a similar result occurs once every 300 years of continuous operation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to miner bc1q~edvj with only 70TH for solving the 313th solo block at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AvNND5PHDY\">https:\/\/t.co\/AvNND5PHDY<\/a>! <br \/>A miner of this size has only a 1 in ~100,000 chance of solving a block per day, or once every 300 years!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/14Q5vIFAXs\">https:\/\/t.co\/14Q5vIFAXs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jeMnSZ7JUG\">pic.twitter.com\/jeMnSZ7JUG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/2042132981742293063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Congratulations to miner bc1q~edvj with a power of only 70 TH\/s for solving the 313th solo block on eusolo.ckpool.org!&#8221; he wrote.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This hashrate is equivalent to a Bitmain Antminer S17+ mining device from 2019. The equipment of the fortunate user constitutes approximately 0.0000069% of the total Bitcoin network hashrate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second instance this month of a solo miner successfully mining a block. On April 3, a CKPool participant with a power of 230 TH\/s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solo-miner-secures-bitcoin-block-earns-210000\">earned<\/a> 3.139 BTC (around $210,000). However, such occurrences remain rare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/bennet.org\/resources\/solo-block-tracker\/\">Bennet<\/a>, over the past year, solo miners have found only 22 blocks, earning 69.24 BTC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6e94a921850b776e-1347018838239114.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-278227\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Bennet.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the first quarter of 2026, the Bitcoin network&#8217;s hashrate <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-hashrate-declines-by-nearly-6-over-the-quarter\">declined<\/a> by 6% \u2014 from 1066 EH\/s to 1004 EH\/s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solo miner with a hashrate of only 70 TH\/s mined block #944,306 on the Bitcoin network. The reward was 3.128 BTC ($222,074).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"With the user's equipment, such an outcome is possible only once every 300 years.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1137,1279],"class_list":["post-96058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-hashrate-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"With the user's equipment, such an outcome is possible only once every 300 years.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96058","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=96058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96060,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96058\/revisions\/96060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}