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Solo Bitcoin miner hits the jackpot 💰
An individual miner just earned nearly $350K worth of Bitcoin, beating long odds to secure a rare block win.
Andrew Hayward
July 05, 2025
📝 What you need to know
Another solo Bitcoin miner just beat the odds—and won a massive payday.
The user successfully mined Bitcoin block 903,883 late Thursday and earned 3.173 BTC ($349,028), despite having only 2.3 petahashes of computing power—just 0.00026% of Bitcoin's total hash rate. The miner used Solo CK, a service that charges a 2% fee but eliminates the need for expensive mining infrastructure.
According to the pseudonymous admin Dr. CK, a miner of this size has roughly a 1 in 2,800 chance of solving a block daily—or once every eight years on average. This highlights how Bitcoin mining has evolved from a hobbyist activity to an industrialized operation dominated by massive companies with warehouses full of ASIC machines.
Solo mining is compared to playing the lottery due to extremely low odds of success. Most miners join pools to combine resources and split rewards. But despite the long odds, we have seen a string of solo wins pop up in recent months—so there’s still a chance, and some lucky miners have been handsomely rewarded.
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