Despite having a modest hashrate capability of regarding 126 TH/s, the lucky laborer won the crypto equivalent of the lottery and took home 6.25 BTC worth about $266,000.
A single Bitcoin miner from the Solo CK mining pool has defied the percentages once with success adding a replacement block on the Bitcoin blockchain, taking home 6.25 BTC ($266,000) for their efforts.
The lucky miner, who might are mining on only one or 2 machines, resolved a block with their modest hashrate capability of 126 TH/s. consistent with a January 11 tweet from Solo admin, Dr. Con Kolivas it’s equivalent to about 0.000072% of the total Bitcoin (BTC) network hashrate — that is 175,000,000 TH/s (175 EH/s).
Bitcoin mining professional and member of the Bitcoin Mining Council (BMC) Hass McCook told Cointelegraph that he has never detected of something love it, adding that “to say this is terribly rare is an understatement.”
“Usually, having 0.000072% of the hashrate means that, on average, Solo CK can win 0.000072% of the blocks, or, regarding one in 1,400,000,” he explained.
“Everything in Bitcoin is probabilistic, even transaction settlement. The more confirmations you have on your tx, the less likely it will be reversed.”
(Keira Wright, Cointelegraph, 2022)