Bitcoin mining has long become a massive business niche in which the individual miner has been sidelined, but there are occasional exceptions.<\/p>\n
A single miner managed to\u00a0mine<\/a> block number 960804, which secured them the 3.125 BTC prize, worth roughly $200,000 at today\u2019s prices.<\/p>\n Pseudonymous software developer at CKPool, Dr -ck, was among the first to congratulate the miner. However, they explained that the miner\u2019s hashrate peaked at 100 PH, which is significantly higher than that of so-called hobby miners.<\/p>\n Consequently, Dr- ck determined<\/a> that the miner in question had probably rented the equipment. In addition, popular market observer going under the X moniker Bitcoin Archive described<\/a> the miner as \u201cnot the average Joe,\u201d but still admitted the substantial luck needed to succeed given the current miner environment.<\/p>\n This development comes amid the Coldcard saga, in which many investors using the hardware wallet lost millions of dollars worth of BTC as the wave of attacks continues<\/a>. Dr -ck noted that the chaos has not deterred the Bitcoin network from operating as intended.<\/p>\n The post Lucky Solo Bitcoin Miner Lands $200K BTC Reward: But There\u2019s a Catch (Flash News)<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitcoin mining has long become a massive business niche in which the individual miner has been sidelined, but there are occasional exceptions. A single miner managed to\u00a0mine block number 960804, which secured them the 3.125 BTC prize, worth roughly $200,000 at today\u2019s prices. Pseudonymous software developer at CKPool, Dr -ck, was among the first to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}