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A solo Bitcoin miner has become the latest lucky person to win the “Bitcoin mining lottery,” pocketing a $347,455 block reward.
Bitcoin node infrastructure company Umbrel <a href="https://x.com/umbrel/status/1981450980765143087" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> the solo miner won the block via the Public Pool Bitcoin mining pool, earning the 3.125 Bitcoin (<a href="/bitcoin-price" rel="noopener noreferrer">BTC</a>) block reward and a 0.016 BTC transaction fee on top.
It took place at block height 920,440, on Thursday at 7:32 pm UTC, Mempool.space <a href="https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000022b7f4d4475c72653a898672c121715af5c62c5f21da" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">data</a> shows.
While <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/solo-bitcoin-miner-wins-330k-block-as-difficulty-hits-record-high?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">solo Bitcoin miners</a> winning blocks isn’t uncommon, this one was more impressive as the miner secured the block entirely on their own by running a solo mining pool as opposed to the more common practice of pooling hash power with others.
“No middlemen. No third-parties. Just pure self-sovereignty in action,” Umbrel said, while the Bitcoin Bazaar X account added:
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 “A solo block has been mined by a solominer, mining on his own mining pool, hosted on an Umbrel Server. Total sovereignty. We need more of this.”
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<h2 id="solo-bitcoin-mining-is-a-win-for-decentralization">Solo Bitcoin mining is a win for decentralization</h2>
The increase in solo Bitcoin miners solving blocks is a good thing for <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-decentralization-matter-national-security-auradine-ceo?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin’s decentralization</a> as it gives smaller miners a better chance to compete against the large <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/big-bitcoin-miners-growing-threat-bitcoin?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">industrial-scale miners,</a> many of which are publicly traded.
<h2 id="pocket-sized-bitcoin-miners-are-still-cheaper-than-iphones">Pocket-sized Bitcoin miners are still cheaper than iPhones&nbsp;</h2>
It comes amid a rise in smaller-sized Bitcoin miners, such as Bitaxes, in recent years, which <a href="https://www.bitaxeshop.com/en/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">sell</a> from $155 to over $600, depending on the machine’s terahash-per-second capacity.
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While the pocket-sized machines combined only contribute a small boost to <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mining-easier-not-long-hashrate-roars-back?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin’s hash rate</a>, many of these machines have been open-sourced to fight the “secrecy and exclusivity” of larger Bitcoin miners, which typically use the <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/cheap-micro-bitcoin-miners-fight-btc-mining-concentration-inventors-argue?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">closed-sourced Bitcoin ASICs,</a> a BitMaker spokesperson told Cointelegraph in 2023.
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Solo Bitcoin miner scores $347K, ‘pure self-soverignty in action’

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