{"id":56970,"date":"2022-02-01T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56970"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:11:47","slug":"another-solo-miner-mines-a-bitcoin-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/another-solo-miner-mines-a-bitcoin-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Another solo miner mines a Bitcoin block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 1, an unknown solo miner mined block <a href=\\\"https:\/\/btc.com\/btc\/block\/721310\\\">#721 310<\/a> in the Bitcoin blockchain. This was reported by Con Kolivas, administrator of CKPool.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Congratulations to a miner with 1.14PH who solved the 264th solo Bitcoin block at <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWgBvLkDqc\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/UWgBvLkDqc<\/a> ! <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/5BsWlYkYJt\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/5BsWlYkYJt<\/a> There was once again ~20% chance that one of the miners at the pool would have solved a block by now. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/NrlAbhhKCk\\\">pic.twitter.com\/NrlAbhhKCk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Con Kolivas (@ckpooldev) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/1488454376180285443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">February 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth such instance this year. But this time the miner&#8217;s hardware power was an order of magnitude higher \u2014 1.14 PH\/s. That roughly corresponds to the combined hash rate of 11 Antminer S19j Pro devices from Bitmain.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Including transaction fees, the miner&#8217;s reward was about 6.284 BTC (~$244,611).<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Kolivas, at the time of the block&#8217;s discovery, the probability that someone connected to the pool would have mined it was about 20%.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In total, solo miners using CKPool have mined 264 blocks to date, the administrator added.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On January 11, an unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-bitcoin-miner-mines-a-block-probability-of-such-an-event-is-less-than-0-0001\">mined a block<\/a> with a hashrate of 126 TH\/s. The probability of such an event was less than 0.0001%.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On January 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/another-solo-miner-mines-a-bitcoin-block-with-a-0-0001-probability\">luck favored<\/a> a CKPool participant with devices totaling 116 TH\/s. For <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/third-solo-miner-this-month-mines-a-bitcoin-block\">the third<\/a> solo miner to find a block this year, the computing power of his mini-farm was only 86 TH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On January 21, after another adjustment, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">mining difficulty<\/a> of Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-a-new-record-2\">reached a record high<\/a> of 26.64 <span data-descr=\\\"trillion hashes\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">T<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 1, an unknown solo miner mined block #721 310 in the Bitcoin blockchain. 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