Overview
- A miner on Thursday received 3.157 BTC including fees worth roughly $304,000, following a separate solo win on Tuesday valued near $295,000.
- Solo block finds remain unusual yet recurring, with trackers logging about 22 such wins over the past year, or roughly one every two weeks.
- Large operations still dominate block production, with Foundry USA, AntPool, and F2Pool collectively responsible for nearly 57% of recent blocks.
- Bitcoin mining outcomes are probabilistic and memoryless, allowing even small hashers a nonzero chance to solve a block despite long expected wait times.
- Some individuals solo-mine through services such as Solo CKPool, which let a miner keep the entire block reward minus a small fee.