A solitary bitcoin miner beat the probabilities for the 6th time in the post-halving era

By Hannah Pérez

A single miner of Bitcoin He won the statistics when he managed to extract a valid block and take the 3.125 reward BTC Despite being a lottery, the sixth marked the feat in the post-halving era.

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A single Bitcoin miner beat the probabilities and took a reward of USD $ 343K.
A probability of approximately 1 in 2,800 to solve one block every day, says Developer.
Despite the lottery, it would mark the sixth case of its kind in the post-halving era.

Despite the few probabilities that a miner has Bitcoin lonely to solve a block and take home the complete subsidy, at least six miners have achieved the feat since the room was completed halving of Bitcoin.

This week, a miner of Bitcoin lonely beat luck when he managed to extract block No. 903,883 and packed a reward of just over USD $ 340,000, According to explorer data Mempool.

The operator, which used the solo bitcoin mining software of CKPOOL, He specifically took 3,125 BTC in block subsidy and 0.048 BTC in transaction rates for an approximate total of USD $ 342,700 at the time of writing.

The HASH power of the miner solo was the equivalent of 0.00026 % of the total hash rate Estimated network Bitcoin From 874 eh/s (874,000 pH/s) on July 3, he reported The Block citing the aforementioned data source.

As a comparison, the miner of Bitcoin Larger public, Mara, has a hash rate of approximately 57.3 eh/s, according to its last dissemination. The hash rate of Bitcoin It measures the total computational power dedicated to the network by the miners.

“Congratulations to the miner BC1Q ~ 9SJ3 with 2.3PH for solving block number 301 in EU Solo.ckpool.org!“, He wrote with Kolivas, developer of CKPOOLin X, noticing the unusual feat.

A rare event: 1 in 2,800 probability

The reason for the unusual of this maneuver lies in the complexity of mining of Bitcoina process that consists of verifying and adding new blocks to the block chain. To carry out this process, the miners use machines with high computing power that compete to solve complex mathematical calculations. The first to find a hash Valid, it takes the reward.

But to reach a valid hash, miners must compete against the rate of hash and the level of hindering the entire network. Miners usually act in groups (also called pools or Pools) and join forces with other miners to be more likely to extract a valid block. If this occurs, divide the profits among the participants.

Longest mining operations usually consist of at least several hundred or thousands of connected equipment simultaneously.

As more miners join the network, the general difficulty increases, which is more complex for lonely miners to find valid blocks. Basically the more Hashes For the second, you can perform a miner, (that is, when more computing power), it is more likely that you find a valid block and take the reward.

According to Kolivas, a miner currently has only A probability of approximately 1 in 2,800 to solve a day by day, “Or once every 8 years on average”.

Despite the few probabilities, there are still those who venture to undermine alone in the hope of obtaining the complete reward of 3.125 BTC per block, thus avoiding rates and potentially winning a substantial prize similar to the lottery.

Recent decrease in mining difficulty

Bitcoin He became more scarce after his fourth halving in April 2024, which reduced in half the reward for block for the miners of Bitcoin. This scheduled event, which occurs every four years on the network of Bitcoindecreases the issuance of new Bitcoinsslowing down the speed at which the circulating offer increases.

A recent decrease in the levels of mining difficulty of the network could have contributed positively to help the lonely miner extract the 903,883 block this week. The difficulty of mining Bitcoin He experienced a significant decrease, falling 7.48% to 116.96 billion at the end of June, which marked the greatest negative adjustment since the mining prohibition of China in 2021.

The network Bitcoin Adjust the difficulty every 2016 blocks (approximately every two weeks) to maintain an average time of 10 minutes per block, adding an obstacle to solitary miners.

At least the 6th post-halving case

Despite the comparison with winning the lottery, curiously the miner Bitcoin This week is far from being the first to take the prize from the post-halving era. Diariobitcoin He found that there are at least five other cases recorded from the reduction to half of lonely miners who secured the block reward despite the winds against him.

The first registered occurred just a few days after the halving, on April 28, when a user managed to extract block No. 841,286 operating with a considerable hash rate. That was the 282th block solo solo in the history of Bitcoin.

Others were subsequently recorded in August and October 2024, with three other events occurring this 2025. The previous one was reported last month, when a user won approximately 3.15 BTC (including rates) to solve block No. 899,826. It is speculated that this miner could have rented additional hash power to increase its probabilities.

Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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