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Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits the Jackpot, Winning $266K BTC Reward
A solo miner earned about 3.15 Bitcoin for mining the network’s 924,569th block on Friday, securing $266,000 worth of the asset, despite only having a sliver of a chance. The individual, who onlookers believe was using a machine that’s designed for hobbyists, had a less than 1 in 100,000 chance per day of earning the reward, according to data from CKPool, a website that provides resources for people to mine Bitcoin on their own. The miner ultimately received 3.146 BTC, which includes the 3.125 BTC reward plus fees. Some companies use massive amounts of computational resources to mine Bitcoin, but the individual ... (full story)
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