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Two independent Bitcoin miners each found a block on consecutive days, with block 973262 landing on October 26, 2026 and block 973413 the following day, according to News.bitcoin. Instead of splitting a payout with a pool, each miner collected the whole reward.
News.bitcoin reported that the first of the two was a FutureBit Apollo Solo unit, and that mining logs show it was only the fourth Apollo solo block on record and the first since March 2025. Cryptobriefing reported separately that the second block was found through CKPool Solo by a miner running just 16.2 TH/s.
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Key facts
- Block 973262 was found on October 26, 2026, by a FutureBit Apollo Solo miner, per both outlets.
- Block 973413 was found on October 27, 2026, through CKPool Solo by a miner with 16.2 TH/s of hashrate, News.bitcoin reported.
- Cryptobriefing reported payouts of about 3.154 BTC and 3.14 BTC, each consisting of the 3.125 BTC subsidy plus transaction fees, which it valued at roughly $253,000 to $255,000 apiece.
- News.bitcoin calculated a daily success probability near 0.0002% for the 16.2 TH/s miner against a network hashrate of about 1,070 EH/s.
- Cryptobriefing reported that 132 solo blocks have been tracked since 2016, worth 969 BTC in total, including 22 in the 12 months to January 2026.
Odds the size of a rounding error
News.bitcoin framed the 16.2 TH/s figure as about one-67-millionth of the network’s total computing power, an expected interval of nearly 1,200 years between successful finds. The outlet noted that FutureBit’s current flagship, the Apollo III, reaches up to 18 TH/s in Turbo mode, still a small share of what industrial operations run.
Most blocks go to large pools such as Foundry, Antpool and F2pool, News.bitcoin reported, because those operators combine hashrate from many participants and share proceeds proportionally. Solo mining works differently: one machine, one block, one full reward. Cryptobriefing put the long-run pace across all solo setups at roughly one solo block every 14 to 16 days.
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On X, Futurebit treated the find as a statement about who should hold mined coins, writing that “Bitcoin belongs in the hands of sovereign individuals,” and opening its post with “Gradually, then suddenly.”
Why it matters
The two wins are the rare public counterexample to the argument that solo mining is no longer viable. They also serve as advertising for the two brands involved: FutureBit Apollo Solo and CKPool Solo now both carry fresh success stories. For the market, the effect was negligible — Cryptobriefing reported that Bitcoin’s price and hashrate dynamics were unchanged by the pair of blocks, and most solo miners never see one at all.
What to watch
The gauge to follow is whether the pace of solo finds holds near Cryptobriefing’s historical average of one every 14 to 16 days. A sustained run above that rate would point to more independent hashrate coming online.
This article reports mining events and does not constitute financial advice. Bitcoin prices and mining economics are volatile and uncertain.
Reported by news.bitcoin.com.
Sources: Bitcoin.com News, Cryptobriefing