A personal miner's lucky moment: mining a Bitcoin block with 200TH/s hash rate and earning 3.13 BTC overnight

CKpool platform leader Кон Коливас has just disclosed an interesting mining case — a solo miner mined block 913,593 on the Bitcoin network, earning as much as 3.13 BTC (equivalent to approximately $350,000 at current market rates). This success not only included the basic block reward but also an additional 0.004 BTC (about $471) in transaction fees.

The lucky miner used equipment with a hash rate of only 200 TH/s. Коливас emphasized that with such computational power, the probability of finding a block on the Bitcoin network is about 1/36,000 per day. In other words, on average, it would take hundreds of years to encounter such luck. But he did get lucky — this is the 307th block mined by an individual miner confirmed through the CKpool platform.

Compared to traditional mining pools (where miners pool their hash power and split the rewards), CKpool employs a completely different mechanism. There is no hash power aggregation or reward redistribution; each miner works independently, and whoever finds a valid block first gets the entire reward. The success of mining ultimately depends on two factors: the current network difficulty and the computational power of the miner’s equipment.

It is worth noting that since early September, Bitcoin network mining competition has significantly intensified. Not long ago, Коливас reported another successful case of a solo miner — a block reward of 3.125 BTC plus 0.022 BTC in fees, totaling approximately $338,000. These two consecutive lucky events reflect that there are still opportunities for individual miners to break through in the current Bitcoin ecosystem, even though the probability seems extremely low.