Small Power Bitcoin Prize: Won 265 Thousand Dollars

As the volatility of Bitcoin prices rises and the interest from investors worldwide increases, a special event on the Bitcoin network has attracted attention. On Friday, a miner, operating with only 6 terahash/second (TH/s) of computing power, successfully solved a block through solo mining. This achievement earned the miner a total reward of 3.146 Bitcoin. According to current prices, this reward is worth approximately 265 thousand dollars.

It was stated that the miner possessed only 0.0000007% of the total power of the network, according to the industry's standard measurement unit, exahash (EH/s). The average power of the Bitcoin network reached 855.7 EH/s in October. In this context, the founder of CKpool, Con Kolivas, pointed out the exceptional nature of this event, stating that the miner's chance of solving a block per day was 1 in 180 million.

The block, which is classified as the third context of winners in the 1960s, was recorded as the 308th solo block solved with CKpool software and was the first solo mining success in nearly three months. Such lucky solo mining examples are rare in Bitcoin's history. For instance, in 2022, a miner solved a block with 126 TH/s in a network with strength of 170 EH/s, and the probability of this occurrence was determined to be 1 in 1.3 million.

CKpool is an anonymous solo Bitcoin mining pool that has been providing services since 2014. On the platform accessed through solo.ckpool.org, miners who successfully solve blocks can take the entire reward with a 2% cut. This feature has led many small miners, who want to try their luck even with low power, to prefer this pool. This latest example once again proved that, despite the intense competition in the Bitcoin network, fortune can favor even small devices.