A single Bitcoin miner has managed to mine a whole Bitcoin block all by themselves. This rare occurrence awarded them 3.146 Bitcoins, worth roughly $270,000 at today's Bitcoin prices (or close to $400,000 at the recent all-time high).
Outside of the very early days of Bitcoin mining, only a few hundred individuals have been lucky enough to mine an entire block by themselves. The miner in this case had roughly 6 terahashes per second of hashpower, or approximately 0.0000007% of Bitcoin's total network hashpower, according to Coindesk.
With such a low hashrate (the speed at which a network can
Outside of the very early days of Bitcoin mining, only a few hundred individuals have been lucky enough to mine an entire block by themselves. The miner in this case had roughly 6 terahashes per second of hashpower, or approximately 0.0000007% of Bitcoin's total network hashpower, according to Coindesk.
With such a low hashrate (the speed at which a network can
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