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Solo bitcoin miner overcomes 1-in-28,000 odds to secure $210,000 block reward

The win landed the same week listed miners Riot, MARA, and Genius Group disclosed selling more than 19,000 BTC from their treasuries.

By Shaurya Malwa|Edited by Sheldon Reback

Apr 6, 2026, 2:08 p.m.

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What to know:

• A solo bitcoin miner with roughly 230 terahashes per second of computing power unexpectedly validated block 943,411, earning 3.139 BTC worth about $210,000.
• The miner, connected to the anonymous solo.ckpool.org pool and representing just 0.00002% of the network’s estimated 1-zetahash hashrate, faced roughly 1-in-28,000 odds of finding a block on any given day.
• The win is part of a recent streak of improbable solo-mining successes on CKpool, including small-scale miners beating odds as steep as 1-in-180-million to secure six-figure rewards.

At 230 terahashes, the winning rig represents about 0.00002% of bitcoin’s total estimated hashrate of roughly 1 zetahash per second as of early April. That output is consistent with a small stack of home-scale ASICs running under a single roof rather than a rented cloud burst or industrial operation.