Solo Bitcoin miner defies odds to mine valid BTC block, gets $150K block reward

In a once-in-a-blue-moon event, a solo Bitcoin miner produced a valid BTC block and gained a $150K block reward in return.

The miner created a solo mining pool using the Solo CK Pool mining service, for which they produced a valid block hash and were rewarded with 6.25 BTC and a fee reward of roughly 0.63 BTC.

Dr Con Kolivas, the admin of the Solo CK mining pool with a Twitter username @ckpooldev noted that the miner behind the rare event might have temporarily rented hashpower to produce output hash.Bitcoin mining requires miners to input computational power to solve and add the next Bitcoin block to the network.

The Solo CK mining pool has been behind several solo-mined Bitcoin blocks in the past as well. Two of these solo-mined blocks came in January 2022, only two weeks apart with the first occurring on

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