Home miner’s $300 Avalon Nano 3S finds $232K Bitcoin block
On May 30, 2026, a home miner using a $300 Canaan Avalon Nano 3S (6.68 TH/s) mined Bitcoin block 951771 and received 3.1404 BTC (about $232,000) via Braiins Solo.
A solo home miner using a Canaan Avalon Nano 3S (6.68 TH/s) mined Bitcoin block 951771 at about 00:27 UTC on May 30, 2026 (4:27:23 p.m. ET). The block reward totaled 3.1404 BTC, about $232,000, and was paid through the Braiins Solo pool to address bc1qdaqf9ynzwtzjtv5j8h47rfen3vwr7d85hxy8vn. The reward included a 3.125 BTC subsidy and roughly 0.0154 BTC in transaction fees, about $1,137 at the time.
The winning device reported a hash rate of 6.68 terahashes per second and consumed about 140 watts. The Avalon Nano 3S typically retails for $250 to $300, connects over Wi‑Fi or Ethernet, and operates at roughly 33–40 decibels. At the time of the find, the Bitcoin network’s implied hash rate was around 1,000 exahashes per second, or about 1 zettahash per second.
The mathematical chance the exact device would find any given block was about 6.72 in a billion, or one in 148,904,370. With 144 blocks mined daily, the daily probability for one such rig was about one in 1.03 million. A continuous run at that hash rate yields an expected wait time of roughly 2,831 years for a single block.
The operator reportedly ran a small fleet that included two Avalon Mini 3 units and 12 Avalon Nano 3S units, totaling about 147 TH/s. At the fleet level, the odds improved to about one in 6.7 million per block, which corresponds to an expected win about once every 127 years. Pool records and the block announcement credited the single 6.68 TH/s Nano 3S worker with the find.
Solo home-mined blocks have occurred before. In the prior 12 months there were roughly 20 to 24 solo wins by consumer devices. In April 2026 a 4.8 TH/s Nerdqaxe++ machine mined a block worth about $224,000. Other consumer models, including Bitaxe and Futurebit Apollo units, also independently mined blocks in 2025 and 2026.
Services and pools that support individual or hobbyist miners include Braiins Solo, Futurebit Solo, CKPool Solo, Public Pool, Parasite and Nicehash Easymining. The event prompted discussion on social platforms and mining forums, where hobbyist miners described the find as an example of a consumer device securing a full block reward.
At a Bitcoin price near $73,800 at the time of the find, the total payout equated to between $230,000 and $232,000.
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