An individual miner operating through the CKpool platform mined Bitcoin block 903,883 late on 3 July, securing the entire block reward of 3.173 BTC—worth roughly $350,000 at prevailing prices. With an estimated hashrate of just 2.3 petahashes per second, the miner commanded only a tiny fraction of the Bitcoin network’s total computing power, making the successful block discovery a statistically rare event. Solo finds of this size typically occur only a handful of times each year.
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⛏️ A solo miner has successfully mined block #903,883 on the #Bitcoin network, earning 3.173 $BTC or $348,948. The miner used the CKpool platform and operated hardware with a hashrate of 2.3 PH/s. At this level of computing power, the daily probability of mining a block is around https://t.co/BvcYzXDHeT