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A solo Bitcoin miner with 230 TH/s validated block 943,411 via CKpool on Thursday, earning 3.139 BTC-about $210,000-despite odds of roughly 1-in-28,000.
A solo Bitcoin miner running about 230 terahashes per second validated block 943,411 through the solo.ckpool.org pool, receiving 3.139 BTC, or roughly $210,000 at recent prices. The miner’s chance of finding a block on any given day was estimated at around 1 in 28,000.
In a post on X, CKpool developer Con Kolivas wrote that the participant had “roughly a 1-in-28,000 chance of finding a block on any given day.” Solo.ckpool.org, launched in 2014, allows miners to keep the full block reward minus a 2% fee if they discover a valid block.
At 230 TH/s, the miner accounted for about 0.00002% of the network’s roughly 1 zetahash-per-second hashrate in early April. That output is far below industrial operations. Riot Platforms reports more than 30 exahashes per second, which is roughly 130,000 times Thursday’s winning hashrate.
The payout was the 312th solo win recorded by CKpool since it started and the first since February 28, ending a 33-day stretch without a CKpool block. Over the past 12 months, solo pools have found 20 Bitcoin blocks for a combined 62.96 BTC. That pace averages one solo block about every 18.7 days, with the longest recent gap at 58 days.
Recent CKpool results include a miner with roughly 270 TH/s in December who earned about $284,633, a miner with around 6 TH/s in November who received about $265,000 with odds near 1 in 180 million, and a participant in late February who pointed about 1 petahash of rented cloud hashrate at CKpool for a few hours to secure about $200,000.
The 3.139 BTC credited for block 943,411 reflects the block subsidy plus transaction fees at the time of discovery. Miners who connect to CKpool work through a pool server but do not share rewards; the finder retains the full amount after fees.
The solo win came in the same week several listed companies reported notable Bitcoin sales from their treasuries. Disclosures from Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital (MARA), and Genius Group indicated combined sales exceeding 19,000 BTC.
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