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A solo bitcoin miner running roughly 161 terahash per second (TH/s) solved block 975427 on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, collecting the 3.125 BTC block subsidy plus transaction fees, worth approximately $230,000 with bitcoin trading just above $73,500, Bitcoin.com News reported.
The miner was working through CKPool Solo, and the pool’s operator said the find was its 321st block since the pool began. The maintainer credited a worker address beginning in “bc1q~g4m7,” adding that a miner of that size has about a one-in-126 chance of solving a block within a year.
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Key facts
- The winning miner carried about 161 TH/s of computing power, working alone through CKPool Solo.
- Block 975427 was CKPool Solo’s 321st block since its inception.
- It was the 38th block found by a solo miner in 2026.
- The block subsidy of 3.125 BTC plus fees put the payout near $230,000.
- Bitcoin was priced just above $73,500 when the story was published.
Odds that run against the mining giants
Industrial operators such as Foundry and Antpool take the large majority of blocks, but the network’s 10-minute block interval gives every connected machine a ticket each round. CKPool Solo’s maintainer framed the odds in annual terms: about one chance in 126 for a miner at the 161 TH/s level over 12 months.
Bitcoin.com News placed that number against lottery draws. A single Powerball ticket carries odds of about 1 in 292.2 million, and a Mega Millions ticket about 1 in 290,472,336, so one 10-minute contest gives this miner roughly 44 times better odds than a single Powerball ticket. Buying into all three weekly Powerball drawings for a year only reaches about 1 in 1.9 million, still thousands of times worse than the miner’s annual figure. The prize is smaller in kind: a block pays a fixed subsidy plus fees, not a nine-figure jackpot.
A run of solo finds in 2026
The result extends a pattern. Bitcoin.com News had just documented 36 independently mined blocks for the year when another CKPool Solo participant found block 974930 that same evening, lifting the count to 37; block 975427 made it 38 since January 2026. Interest in going it alone has grown alongside new pools and compact application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) hardware aimed at home users, and each new solo block adds to that attention. Industry observers have long treated home mining as an economically marginal activity, so a steady stream of full-reward finds keeps the counterexample in view.
Why it matters
A payout of this size can meaningfully change an individual miner’s finances, which is why stories like this circulate well beyond mining circles. The comparison with industrial pools also matters for how small operators are perceived: the probability of a win is low, but it is not zero, and the design of the block schedule ensures that a lone machine stays eligible every ten minutes. The 38 solo blocks so far in 2026 are the practical evidence behind that argument.
None of this constitutes financial advice. Mining returns depend on hardware cost, electricity prices and network difficulty, all of which change, and cryptocurrency prices are volatile and uncertain.
What to watch
The 2026 solo total now stands at 38 blocks, with CKPool Solo’s own lifetime count at 321. Whether the year finishes with a higher tally depends on the same probabilities that produced block 975427, and any further solo find will be visible on-chain and reported by the pool operator.
Source: Bitcoin.com News
Reported by Bitcoin.com News.
Source: Bitcoin.com News