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A participant of the CKPool — a solo miner with a hash rate of 230 TH/s — successfully mined a Bitcoin block and received a reward of 3.139 BTC (approximately $210,000). This was reported by the pool administrator, Con Colivas.
According to him, the likelihood of discovering a block with such computational power is extremely low — about one chance in 28,000 per day. However, such occurrences do happen from time to time. At the end of February, a solo miner mined block number 938,092 and received 3.125 BTC (around $196,650). In January, another network participant also independently found a block with a reward of 3.131 BTC (approximately $289,191).
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Over the past year, solo miners have extracted 20 blocks, collectively earning 62.96 BTC. On average, this translates to one block found roughly every 18 to 19 days. The longest interval between such events reached 58 days.
CKPool is a specialized pool for Bitcoin mining that allows users to operate in solo mode without the need to run their own full node. Unlike traditional pools, it does not distribute rewards among participants: the miner who discovers a block receives nearly the entire amount, minus a service fee of 2%.
Previously, analysts from CoinShares indicated that the cost of mining Bitcoin for some miners has exceeded $100,000. They estimate that the share of revenue from mining at large data centers (DCs) may decline from 85% to less than 20% by the end of the year.
