Against All Odds, Solo Bitcoin Miner Banks $282,000 After Securing An Entire Block Reward ⋆ ZyCrypto

A lucky solo Bitcoin miner beat a swathe of powerful mining pools to receive a $282,000 reward after successfully mining a whole block on Thursday. Independent miners solving blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain network is a rare accomplishment, but still not impossible in 2025.

Lone Wolf BTC Miner Attains Ultra-Rare Feat

The miner collected a total of 3.133 BTC ($284,661) for mining block 927,474, using solo bitcoin-mining software from CKpool, according to the Bitcoin explorer Mempool. This comprised 3.125 BTC in block subsidy rewards ($283,944) and 0.008 BTC ($689) in transaction fees.

“Congratulations to miner 1Ng9~VoQz with 270TH for solving the 311th solo block at solo.ckpool.org!” CKpool developer Con Kolivas wrote in a post on X. “A miner of this size has a 1 in 30,000 chance of solving a block per day.” This equates to roughly once every 82 years. 

Bitcoin blocks are produced roughly every 10 minutes and are typically mined by mining pools, which combine computing power to give them the best possible chance of pocketing the block reward. The reward to successfully mine a block currently sits at 3.125 BTC, after the fourth halving event in April 2024.

With Bitcoin’s hashrate being dominated by institutional miners with immense computing power, the chances of an individual miner snagging a block are quite slim. However, with efficient hardware and a heavy dose of luck, even smaller players can score the same block rewards in rare instances. 

For this particular miner, the hashrate was split between three Bitcoin mining machines with around 90 TH/s each, Kolivas noted, which is roughly consistent with the output of standard Bitmain Antminer S19 air-cooled ASICs.

The lone miner’s hashpower is equivalent to approximately 0.00002% of Bitcoin’s total estimated hashrate of 1.15 ZH/s on Dec. 11, Mempool’s data shows.

Lone Bitcoin Miners See More Lottery-Esque Wins In 2025

A solo miner winning a block could be likened to winning a lottery. But despite the industrial mining landscape, 2025 has become an impressive year for solo miners.

One successfully mined a block last month, while another netted $347,000 in late October after independently solving block 920,440. On September 8, another solo miner was able to score a block alone, bagging $347,872 in rewards.

This comes as the price of BTC drifted below $90,000 on Sunday, with investors showing limited appetite for risk. The largest cryptocurrency was valued at $89,039 at the time of publication, down 1.3% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinGecko.