A solo miner mined a single block of Bitcoin and earned 6.36 BTC earlier than the upcoming halving.
On April 5, a solo miner with an gear hashrate of seven PH/s keyed block #837,814 into the blockchain of the primary cryptocurrency. In response to Mempool, the person acquired a complete of 6.36 BTC, the equal of $422,750 on the time of block mining, together with a fee of 0.1 BTC.
CKPool pool administrator Con Kolyvas famous that the miner has been mining intermittently because the pool’s final restart and has collected, on common, about .05% of the shares required to unravel a block.
“The miner has contacted me in non-public. He was mining together with his personal mining {hardware} supplemented by intermittent rented hashrate.”
Con Kolyvas, CKPool pool administrator
In October 2023, a solo miner included a block within the Bitcoin community with a {hardware} energy of 11 PH/s. The person acquired a reward of 6.25 BTC and a fee of 0.09 BTC. In Could 2023, one other individual earned $177,115 by mining a block, receiving a reward of 6.25 BTC and a fee of 0.24 BTC.
On the finish of March 2024, the issue of mining Bitcoin decreased by 0.97%, with an indicator of 83.13 T. Because the earlier worth change, the common hashrate for the interval was 593.99 EH/s. The vary between blocks is 10 minutes and seven seconds.