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Lucky solo bitcoin miner beats 1-in-82-year odds to win $285,000 block reward
A solo bitcoin miner beat staggering odds to solve a block and take home the full subsidy and transaction fee rewards late Thursday. The miner collected a total of 3.133 BTC ($284,633) for mining block 927,474, using solo bitcoin-mining software from CKpool, according to the Bitcoin explorer Mempool. This comprised 3.125 BTC in block subsidy rewards ($283,944) and 0.008 BTC ($689) in transaction fees. "Congratulations to miner 1Ng9~VoQz with 270TH for solving the 311th solo block at solo.ckpool.org!" CKpool developer Con Kolivas posted on X. "A miner of this size has a 1 in 30,000 chance of solving a block per day." ... (full story)
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