Solo Bitcoin Miner Claims 3.128 BTC Reward

A solo Bitcoin miner operating with modest computing power struck a rare jackpot on April 9, 2026, by successfully mining block 944,306 and claiming a full reward of 3.128 bitcoin, valued at approximately $222,000.

The miner, using about 70 terahashes per second of hash power, equivalent to a single 2019-era Bitmain Antminer S17 machine, solved the block through Solo CKPool's European server. This setup allows individual miners to attempt blocks independently without running a full Bitcoin node, though it charges a 2 percent fee on successful rewards. The payout included the standard 3.125 bitcoin block subsidy plus roughly 0.003 bitcoin in transaction fees, totaling just over $222,000 at prevailing prices.

CKPool developer Con Kolivas confirmed the achievement on X, stating, "A miner of this size has only a 1 in 100,000 chance of solving a block per day, or once every 300 years." At the time, the miner's hash rate represented a tiny fraction, about 0.000007, of the Bitcoin network's total of over 940 exahashes per second. Network difficulty stood at 138.97 trillion, making such an outcome statistically improbable for small-scale operations.

This success marks the 313th solo...