{"id":183924,"date":"2023-10-31T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=183924"},"modified":"2023-10-31T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:06:07","slug":"solo-bitcoin-miner-snags-200000-block-reward-how-did-they-do-it-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/solo-bitcoin-miner-snags-200000-block-reward-how-did-they-do-it-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Bitcoin Miner Snags $200,000 Block Reward, How Did They Do It? &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A solo Bitcoin miner has struck gold after successfully claiming a $200,000 block reward. The considerable achievement has captured the attention of fellow miners and crypto enthusiasts, highlighting the potential for lone miners to effectively compete with larger mining operations\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Lone Bitcoin Miner Hits Jackpot<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On October 28, a software engineer of Bitcoin CGMiner and an admin of Solo Ckpool, Dr. Con Kolivas congratulated a lone Bitcoin miner in an <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/1718445207396708661?s=46\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (formerly Twitter) post for accomplishing a rare milestone by solving the 278th solo block at Solo Ckpool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lucky miner used 11 PH\/s of hash power to discover block 814,308 and claimed a $200,000 (6.25 BTC) block reward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCongratulations to miner 3KCykmdpBpNKTtZJAvp3u2N2EQjGzbUF7c with ~11PH for solving the 278th solo block on solo.ckpool,\u201d Dr. Kolivas stated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presently, <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-mining-marathon-reports-228-revenue-boost\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">large-scale mining operations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and pools are dominating the Bitcoin mining industry. When blocks are discovered, these mining companies often share the rewards. In contrast, mining pools like Solo Ckpool offer lone miners a higher level of independence allowing them to earn almost all rewards when they discover a block.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This recent solo mining achievement has not been the only accomplishment this year. In August, a <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/bitcoin\/solo-bitcoin-miner-secures-reward\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">solo Bitcoin miner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> solved block 803,821, claiming 6.25 BTC worth $160,000. Multiple solo miners have also discovered substantial blocks and reaped significant rewards in the last few months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lure of solo mining pools is growing as many miners are looking to increase their chances of earning large rewards while reclaiming a sense of independence in the competitive <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/how-much-energy-does-it-take-to-mine-a-single-bitcoin-how-to-save-costs-on-electricity-if-you-are-mining\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin mining market.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>BTC Mining Hashrate On The Rise<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin Hashrate has continued to increase following the recent <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-retests-27000-miners-biggest-selloff-april\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">surge in the value of BTC. <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier on October 12, the hash rate saw an alarming increase to 456 exahash per second (EH\/s). Following this increase, the <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-hashrate-hits-another-ath-miners-back-btc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hash rate <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stabilized slightly dropping down to 443 EH\/s sometime on October 28.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the increased level of <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-miners-face-soaring-difficulty\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mining difficulties, <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hash rates are rising. <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/data.hashrateindex.com\/network-data\/btc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin hash rate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is slightly back up today to 452.63 EH\/s with an estimated difficulty adjustment of 12.78% and network difficulty of 62.46T. The average block time for mining is also approximately 8 minutes and 52 seconds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past month, mining <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/trouble-bitcoin-miners-hashprice-all-time-lows\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hash prices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> fell to significant lows, depicting the possibility of chain validators experiencing higher mining difficulties and pressure. Now, hash rates are on the rise and <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-miners-on-the-defensive-analyst\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin miners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are taking advantage of these opportunities to increase their earnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center\">BTC price resumes rally | Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/Tradingview.com\">BTCUSD on Tradingview.com<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>Featured image from Shutterstock, chart from Tradingview.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solo Bitcoin miner has struck gold after successfully claiming a $200,000 block reward. The considerable achievement has captured the attention of fellow miners and crypto enthusiasts, highlighting the potential for lone miners to effectively compete with larger mining operations\u00a0 Lone Bitcoin Miner Hits Jackpot On October 28, a software engineer of Bitcoin CGMiner and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-183924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183926,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183924\/revisions\/183926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}