A solo miner mined a single block of Bitcoin and earned 6.36 BTC earlier than the upcoming halving.
On April 5, a solo miner with an gear hashrate of seven PH/s keyed block #837,814 into the blockchain of the primary cryptocurrency. Based on Mempool, the consumer obtained a complete of 6.36 BTC, the equal of $422,750 on the time of block mining, together with a fee of 0.1 BTC.
CKPool pool administrator Con Kolyvas famous that the miner has been mining intermittently for the reason that pool’s final restart and has collected, on common, about .05% of the shares required to unravel a block.
“The miner has contacted me in non-public. He was mining together with his personal mining {hardware} supplemented by intermittent rented hashrate.”
Con Kolyvas, CKPool pool administrator
In October 2023, a solo miner included a block within the Bitcoin community with a {hardware} energy of 11 PH/s. The consumer obtained a reward of 6.25 BTC and a fee of 0.09 BTC. In Might 2023, one other particular person earned $177,115 by mining a block, receiving a reward of 6.25 BTC and a fee of 0.24 BTC.
On the finish of March 2024, the issue of mining Bitcoin decreased by 0.97%, with an indicator of 83.13 T. Because the earlier worth change, the typical hashrate for the interval was 593.99 EH/s. The vary between blocks is 10 minutes and seven seconds.