Overview

• A solo miner used Solo CKPool to independently solve block 910,440 on August 17 and secured 3.137 BTC, valued at roughly $360,000 to $371,000.
• CKPool administrator Con Kolivas confirmed this marks only the 305th solo block submitted through the service since its August 2014 launch.
• The miner’s roughly 9 petahashes per second of computing power translated to about a one-in-800 chance of finding a block on any given day.
• Block 910,440 processed over 4,000 transactions, illustrating the high throughput carried by modern Bitcoin blocks.
• While solo mining lets operators keep the full reward without pool fees, rising network difficulty and record-high global hash rates have shifted block production toward large-scale pools.