Updated: 20.03.2026
A solo Bitcoin miner has earned $200,000 by mining 3,125 Bitcoin using hobbyist-grade hardware and a rented hashrate.
According to Braiins, the miner used hashrate on demand, spending about 119,000 satoshi (around $75) for renting 1 petahash per second of computing power and a small fee for solo mining. He is known to have used the CKPool service, which allows individual miners to work independently through a pool server to broadcast tasks and submit solutions.
Leased hashrate allows miners to rent computing power for cryptocurrency mining without purchasing the equipment themselves.
According to network data, a miner successfully confirmed Bitcoin block «938092» at around 8:04 AM UTC on Tuesday, February 24.
Mining a Bitcoin block solo is a rare occurrence; only 21 solo miners have achieved this feat in the past year, earning a total of 66 BTC, worth $4,1 million at current prices.
The mining difficulty of the flagship cryptocurrency has been rapidly increasing recently. After the latest adjustment, this figure increased by 15% to 144,4 trillion, offsetting an 11% drop in hashrate caused by severe winter storms in the US in early February. This is the sharpest decline in hashrate since the mining ban in China in 2021.
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