A solo Bitcoin (BTC) miner with a hashrate capacity of 60 terahashes per second (TH/s) has added a new block to the Bitcoin blockchain, registering the block reward of BTC 6.25 (USD 244,074).
This marks the sixth solo miner to win a Bitcoin block race so far in 2022, according to pseudonymous Bitcoin veteran burn the bridge (@econoalchemist), known for his Bitcoin mining setups for homes.
A #Bitcoin miner with a 60Th contribution just found a block on CKpool.
The miner was rewarded 6.14 BTC, the pool received 0.12 BTC.
This is the 6th "solo" block find in 2022 by my count. https://t.co/rvV3hTTBfp
— burn the bridge (@econoalchemist) April 27, 2022
The miner in question is part of a solo mining pool called Solo CK, which ranks 13th on the list of bitcoin mining pools with a total computing power of 474.69 petahash per second (PH/s), accounting for a 0.22% share of the network, according to BTC.com.
Solo CK administrator, Con Kolivas, tweeted a congratulatory message, stating that there was “an ~81% chance that someone on the pool would have solved a block by now.”
Kolivas added that at the current Bitcoin network difficulty, the miner with 60TH has a chance of less than 1 in 20,000 (or 0.005%) to solve a block per day.
The miner in question who solved this latest block has been mining solo for at least a month now so I cannot accurately say what their chances of solving a solo block were overall without going way back through the logs to see when they first started.
— Dr. Con Kolivas (@ckpooldev) April 27, 2022
Earlier this year, two Solo CK solo Bitcoin miners with a hashrate capacity of 126TH and 116TH, respectively, solved a Bitcoin block in just over a week, stirring speculations about whether solo Bitcoin mining is making a comeback.
At 10:08 UTC, BTC is trading at USD 39,051. It’s down 3% in a day and nearly 6% in a week.
Source: Cryptonews
