A Bitcoin miner has accomplished a rare feat. Miner of Bitcoin block 860749 He managed to win the prize alone. The reward for this block was 3,169 BTC. Unknown Bitcoin miner, thanks to this rare incident 180 thousand dollars He earned about 100% of his money.

The miner who earned 180 thousand dollars, did not have a very advanced system. According to data from Bitcoin transaction tracker YCharts, it even used 629 petahash power in solving the block. This means; The miner who earned $180,000 only had 0.098% of the total network power. However, we should point out here; miner, Solo CK It was registered to a mining pool with the name. In other words, he used joint power with small miners like himself. However, according to the rules of Solo CK, the winner of the prize can be one person.

This event has happened 290 times in Bitcoin’s history

The Bitcoin network, which launched in 2009, has done just that about 860,000 block was produced. The vast majority of these blocks could be produced thanks to mining pools. The situation where a miner solves a block alone, like the incident we mentioned in this news, is only Occurred 290 times.Here you can understand how rare the incident is.

Meanwhile, the difficulty of Bitcoin mining will be fixed from September 2024 reached a record level let’s say. According to research, the difficulty has been increased to 742 exahash (EH/s). Although the difficulty of solving Bitcoin blocks has increased tremendously, it is very difficult for a miner to earn a reward by himself. remarkable a situation.