{"id":95899,"date":"2026-04-03T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/?p=95899"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:00:23","slug":"solo-miner-secures-bitcoin-block-earns-210000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/solo-miner-secures-bitcoin-block-earns-210000\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Miner Secures Bitcoin Block, Earns $210,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A solo miner with a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-hashrate-and-mining-difficulty-in-cryptocurrencies\">hashrate<\/a> of 230 TH\/s discovered block #943,411 on the Bitcoin network, earning 3.139 BTC (approximately $210,000), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/block\/00000000000000000000bef7f0870c24f2962cf83949e96c7288cf30f0d74bf0\">mempool.space<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-0d7108d8d4fee10b-829241498517391.webp\" alt=\"Bitcoin block\" class=\"wp-image-277954\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: mempool.space.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CKPool administrator Kol Kolivas noted that the odds of generating a block with such computational power are approximately 1 in 28,000 per day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to miner bc1qtt7cr9cxykyp9g4hq47zf5lq9t97cxvq72lun3 with ~230TH for solving the 312th solo block at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWgBvLk5AE\">https:\/\/t.co\/UWgBvLk5AE<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>A miner of this size has a 1 in ~28k chance per day of solving a block.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dx3lUuDRbl\">https:\/\/t.co\/dx3lUuDRbl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uiDOzZdHts\">pic.twitter.com\/uiDOzZdHts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/2039824899208822859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of the recent successful solo mining events <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/75-investment-yields-3-125-btc-for-solo-miner\">was the discovery of block #938,092<\/a> in late February. The reward was 3.125 BTC (about $196,650). In January, another solo miner <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solo-miner-earns-289191-from-bitcoin-block-mining\">received<\/a> 3.131 BTC ($289,191). However, such occurrences are rare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 12 months, solo miners have found only 20 blocks, earning 62.96 BTC. On average, this is one &#8220;win&#8221; every 18.7 days. The longest gap reached 58 days.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-d572aa7684d70b72-829271858311711.webp\" alt=\"Bitcoin block mining statistics by solo miners\" class=\"wp-image-277955\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bennet.org\/resources\/solo-block-tracker\/\">Bennet<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mining Difficulty<\/h2>\n<p>Competition in the sector continues to grow. Bitcoin mining difficulty recently <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-drops-nearly-8\">decreased<\/a> by 7.7% \u2014 the sharpest drop since February. On April 3, following the latest recalculation, the figure rose by 3.87% to 138.97 T.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-498abf0d518de0c1-829290055349641.webp\" alt=\"Bitcoin mining difficulty\" class=\"wp-image-277956\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.cloverpool.com\/btc\/insights-difficulty\">CloverPool<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The average hashrate (smoothed by a seven-day moving average) continues to steadily decline after peaking in mid-October 2025.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-44b90e373af8a5c3-829316228927508.webp\" alt=\"Average Bitcoin hashrate\" class=\"wp-image-277957\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/charts\/mining.HashRateMean?a=BTC&#038;ema=0&#038;mAvg=7&#038;mMedian=0&#038;s=1735730066&#038;u=1775088000&#038;zoom=\">Glassnode<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A similar trend is shown by the <span data-descr=\"miners' revenue per unit of computational power expended\" class=\"old_tooltip\">hashprice<\/span>, 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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-4fb3a1f1faac7074-829329881602341.webp\" alt=\"Bitcoin hashprice\" class=\"wp-image-277958\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/network-data\/bitcoin-hashprice-index\">Hashrate Index<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $66,800 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\">CoinGecko<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In late March, CoinShares analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinshares-analysts-report-20-of-bitcoin-miners-capitulate\">concluded<\/a> that up to 20% of miners are currently operating at a loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Bitcoin mining difficulty rose nearly 4% following the latest recalculation.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1137,1279],"class_list":["post-95899","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":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Bitcoin mining difficulty rose nearly 4% following the latest recalculation.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95899","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=95899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95901,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95899\/revisions\/95901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}