This Week 4 different Solo Miners Took Home $853K!

It's been a wild week for solo miners. Four different miners hit blocks in the past 7 days across three different solo pools, taking home a combined ~12.47 BTC (~$853,000 USD). The little guys keep winning.

🟠 [Block 943,411](https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000bef7f0870c24f2962cf83949e96c7288cf30f0d74bf0) (April 2)

Pool: Solo CK

Hashrate: ~240 TH/s

Reward: 3.07 BTC (~$205,949 USD)

3,961 transactions | 1.4M sats in fees

Fee range: 0.00 to 477 sat/vB

312th solo block on CKPool. First in 33 days.

Odds: ~1 in 28,000 per day

🟠 [Block 943,466](https://mempool.space/block/943466) (April 3)

Pool: Public Pool (the pool's first ever solo block)

Devices: NerdOCTAXE (8.2 TH/s) + NerdQaxe+ (2.9 TH/s) + NerdQaxe++ (7.4 TH/s)

Total hashrate: 18.5 TH/s

Reward: 3.14 BTC (~$209,597 USD)

2,359 transactions | 2.3M sats in fees

Fee range: 1.00 to 448 sat/vB

All open-source hardware. Zero pool fees.

🟠 [Block 944,078](https://mempool.space/block/944078) (April 7)

Pool: Noderunners Mining Pool

Device: NerdQaxe++

Reward: 3.13 BTC (~$215,163 USD)

3,927 transactions | 706.4k sats in fees

Fee range: 0.13 to 85.0 sat/vB

Another open-source miner gets a win.

🟠 [Block 944,306](https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000012d5e7b4745f92b9cd60241854e38be68d9b182feabcb) (April 9)

Pool: Solo CK (EU)

Device: Antminer S19 (~70 TH/s)

Reward: 3.128 BTC (~$222,722 USD)

440 transactions | 299.2k sats in fees

Fee range: 1.00 to 20.25 sat/vB

313th solo block on CKPool

Odds: ~1 in 100,000 per day (once every ~300 years)

For context, the entire Bitcoin network is running at ~1 ZH/s (1,000,000 TH/s). These miners represent a rounding error of the total hashrate, yet they're pulling full block rewards worth six figures.

Solo mining is the ultimate Bitcoin lottery. You either win everything or nothing. No reward splitting, no pool politics. Just you, your hardware, and SHA-256.

4 solo blocks in one week is absolutely nuts.