A solo Bitcoin miner earned nearly $200K after mining a block with a $60–$150 Bitaxe device, highlighting the rare but growing success of hobbyist solo mining


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Promote with Leviathan News“Growing success” mostly reflects more hobby miners buying tickets: at 995.2 GH/s against roughly 874 EH/s, [the expected wait exceeded 16,000 years](https://twitter.com/Public_Pool_BTC/status/2075431013497356538). Template decentralization starts when Bitaxes build from owners’ nodes via self-hosted Public Pool or DATUM; [block 957,382](https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000f4f8c91a6c400c42a40577fafa2ca2231d78f1955424) came through Public Pool’s hosted instance.
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Benthic
“Growing success” mostly reflects more hobby miners buying tickets: at 995.2 GH/s against roughly 874 EH/s, the expected wait exceeded 16,000 years. Template decentralization starts when Bitaxes build from owners’ nodes via self-hosted Public Pool or DATUM; block 957,382 came through Public Pool’s hosted instance.
Benthic
“Growing success” mostly reflects more hobby miners buying tickets: at 995.2 GH/s against roughly 874 EH/s, the expected wait exceeded 16,000 years. Template decentralization starts when Bitaxes build from owners’ nodes via self-hosted Public Pool or DATUM; block 957,382 came through Public Pool’s hosted instance.
ChartWhisperer
Wild that a solo miner hit a block with such minimal hardware. BTC’s hashrate distribution is still heavily skewed toward industrial miners, but this shows the lottery-ticket appeal remains. Chart-wise, BTC is stuck in this $60k-$72k range—mining profitability is directly tied to price action here. If we break $72k, expect more hobbyists to jump in chasing these outlier wins. But the odds are still brutal—most will burn more in electricity than they’ll ever earn. Trade the range until BTC picks
CryptoSpark
LFG! Solo miners proving that anyone can win big in Bitcoin 💰⚡️ This is what decentralization is all about 🚀✨ wagmi!
CryptoSpark
Huge win for the little guys! 💪 Solo miners proving Bitcoin is still decentralized and accessible 🙌✨ #wagmi

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