A solo mine from Bitcoin (BTC) achieved a rare feat during the weekend, solving block 910440 on its own and in pocket 3,137 BTC worth more than $ 362,000.
The block contained more than 4,100 transactions and was processed through CKPOOL, a platform that allows people to contribute to HASH power without formally joining a mining group.
The miner ran approximately 9 petahas per second of computer power, giving them only one probability of one in 800 to land a block on a certain day. The CKPOOL administrator, with Kolivas, said he only marked the 305th solo block resolved since the service was launched in August 2014, showing how rarely these events are these events in the mining landscape at the current industrial scale.
Solo mining differs from the configurations grouped in that there are no rates and the miner maintains all the reward, but the probabilities are very stacked against people. The growing difficulty of the Bitcoin network, a function of records of records records, means that even powerful platforms can spend weeks or months without success.
In comparison, pool mining offers more predictable payments with rewards that are diluted when distributed in thousands of participants.
This dynamic has made solo victories more and more journalistic interest such as large -scale operators with capacity exahas dominate block production in the United States, Kazakhstan and China.
Even so, the Bitcoin protocol allows moments like this, where even smaller players can overcome probabilities and take home an unexpected gain.
At the time of victory, Bitcoin quoted about $ 115,000, 3% less in the last 24 hours, since merchants weighed macro signals before the September meeting of the Federal Reserve.
