Solo Miner Secures Bitcoin Block, Earns $210,000

Bitcoin mining difficulty rose nearly 4% following the latest recalculation.

A solo miner with a hashrate of 230 TH/s discovered block #943,411 on the Bitcoin network, earning 3.139 BTC (approximately $210,000), according to mempool.space. 

CKPool administrator Kol Kolivas noted that the odds of generating a block with such computational power are approximately 1 in 28,000 per day.

Congratulations to miner bc1qtt7cr9cxykyp9g4hq47zf5lq9t97cxvq72lun3 with ~230TH for solving the 312th solo block at https://t.co/UWgBvLk5AE!

A miner of this size has a 1 in ~28k chance per day of solving a block.https://t.co/dx3lUuDRbl pic.twitter.com/uiDOzZdHts

— Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) April 2, 2026

One of the recent successful solo mining events was the discovery of block #938,092 in late February. The reward was 3.125 BTC (about $196,650). In January, another solo miner received 3.131 BTC ($289,191). However, such occurrences are rare. 

Over the past 12 months, solo miners have found only 20 blocks, earning 62.96 BTC. On average, this is one “win” every 18.7 days. The longest gap reached 58 days.

Mining Difficulty

Competition in the sector continues to grow. Bitcoin mining difficulty recently decreased by 7.7% — the sharpest drop since February. On April 3, following the latest recalculation, the figure rose by 3.87% to 138.97 T. 

The average hashrate (smoothed by a seven-day moving average) continues to steadily decline after peaking in mid-October 2025.

A similar trend is shown by the hashprice, which at the time of writing is $31.6 PH/s per day. Industry experts consider the average breakeven level for miners to be around $40 per PH/s per day.

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $66,800 (CoinGecko). 

In late March, CoinShares analysts concluded that up to 20% of miners are currently operating at a loss.