Hobby-level miner bags $200K solo BTC block with budget Bitaxe rig

Solo Miner Strikes Gold

A solo Bitcoin miner secured a $200,000 block reward with a budget mining rig, pushing payouts to hobby-level miners to $4.7 million for the past year.

Source: Public Pool

While mining a solo block is statistically rare, this marks the 12th Bitcoin block validated by a hobby-level miner so far in 2026, pushing the past 12 months' total payouts to more than $4.7 million for retail miners.

Solo Block Statistics

Solo block stats, 1-year. Source: Bennet.org

Solo blocks mined increased by 41% year-over-year, as solo miners validated a total of 24 blocks during the past year, according to solo miner data aggregator Bennet. This brings total rewards paid to solo miners to 75.4 Bitcoin, or $4.7 million, for the past year.

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The average interval for solo Bitcoin blocks stands at 15.2 days, while the longest drought without a successful solo block stands at 58 days.

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