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The victory occurred in the same week that publicly traded miners Riot, MARA, and Genius Group reported selling over 19,000 BTC from their reserves.
Rack of bitcoin mining machines (Shutterstock)
Key points:
- A solo bitcoin miner with approximately 230 terahashes per second of computational power unexpectedly confirmed block 943,411, receiving 3.139 BTC valued at around $210,000.
- This miner, linked to the anonymous solo.ckpool.org pool and accounting for merely 0.00002% of the network’s estimated 1-zetahash hashrate, faced an approximate 1-in-28,000 chance of locating a block on any given day.
- This achievement is part of a recent trend of unlikely solo-mining victories on CKpool, where small miners have succeeded against odds as high as 1-in-180-million, obtaining six-figure payouts.
A solo bitcoin miner operating at roughly 230 terahashes per second successfully validated block 943,411 on Thursday, securing 3.139 BTC with an approximate value of $210,000, despite holding such a small percentage of the total network hashrate that it nearly rounds to zero on most dashboards.
The miner was connected to solo.ckpool.org, the anonymous solo mining pool established in 2014 that allows participants to retain their entire block rewards after a 2% fee. CKpool developer Con Kolivas confirmed the achievement on X, stating that the miner had around a 1-in-28,000 opportunity to discover a block on an average day.
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Congratulations to miner bc1qtt7cr9cxykyp9g4hq47zf5lq9t97cxvq72lun3 with ~230TH for solving the 312th solo block at https://t.co/UWgBvLk5AE!
A miner of this size has a 1 in ~28k chance per day of solving a block.https://t.co/dx3lUuDRbl pic.twitter.com/uiDOzZdHts
— Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) April 2, 2026
With 230 terahashes, the winning setup constitutes approximately 0.00002% of bitcoin’s overall estimated hashrate of about 1 zetahash per second as of early April. This level of output aligns with a modest collection of home-based ASICs functioning under a single roof as opposed to a rented cloud burst or large-scale operation.
For comparison, the listed miner Riot Platforms alone operates over 30 exahashes, which is roughly 130,000 times the hashrate of the winner from Thursday.
This block marks the 312th solo success recorded on CKpool since its launch, and the first since February 28, concluding a 33-day dry spell. Solo pools have mined only 20 bitcoin blocks in the last year, distributing a total of 62.96 BTC. This averages to about one solo block every 18.7 days, with the longest gap being 58 days.
The win perpetuates a pattern that has emerged with surprising consistency throughout this cycle.
In December, a miner with around 270 TH/s overcame 1-in-30,000 daily odds to secure a $284,633 reward. In November, a miner operating merely 6 TH/s, the output of a single outdated ASIC that typically would not expect to discover a block in hundreds of years of continuous mining, surpassed 1-in-180-million odds to claim about $265,000.
Additionally, in late February, a miner converted roughly $75 of rented cloud hashrate into a $200,000 payout by directing just 1 petahash at CKpool for a few hours.
