{"id":21939,"date":"2025-03-11T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solo-miner-strikes-bitcoin-block-with-299-device\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:50:12","slug":"solo-miner-strikes-bitcoin-block-with-299-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/solo-miner-strikes-bitcoin-block-with-299-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Miner Strikes Bitcoin Block with $299 Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, a solo miner successfully mined block #887,212 on the Bitcoin network using a home setup Bitax with a hash rate of 480 GH\/s. The reward amounted to 3.15 BTC, or approximately $250,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1299-99-99.webp\" alt=\"1299-99-99\" class=\"wp-image-253790\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/1899221297902899652\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to CKPool administrator Con Kolivas, the odds of calculating a block with such power are one in a million\u2014on average, it would take 3,500 years of work.<\/p>\n<p>The user employed six Bitax devices from D-Central Technologies for mining, with a combined hash rate of ~3.3 TH\/s. The &#8220;winner&#8221; was one of the Ultra model setups, which uses an ASIC chip for Bitmain&#8217;s Antminer S19XP.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GltJZZ4XgAAQAjb.webp\" alt=\"GltJZZ4XgAAQAjb\" class=\"wp-image-253788\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/altair_tech\/status\/1899192817379152104\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More modern and powerful versions\u2014Bitax Gamma and Supra\u2014are built on the latest generation Antminer S21 chip.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/altairtech.io\/product\/bitaxe\/\">website<\/a> of equipment seller Altair, the devices cost between $169 and $299 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Kolivas noted that connecting multiple miners increases the chances of success. In his view, the overall computational power plays a crucial role in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Kolivas highlighted that CKPool users have mined 297 solo Bitcoin blocks to date.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July 2024, a Bitax device <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solo-miner-strikes-bitcoin-block-earning-212000\">achieved this feat<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, a solo miner successfully mined block #887,212 on the Bitcoin network using a home setup Bitax with a hash rate of 480 GH\/s. The reward amounted to 3.15 BTC, or approximately $250,000. Data: X. According to CKPool administrator Con Kolivas, the odds of calculating a block with such power are one in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1137],"class_list":["post-21939","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":"185","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}