Solo Bitcoin Miner With Only 116 TH Takes $265K Block Reward
The individual miner is the second in two days to take the full coinbase reward for himself after adding a valid block to the Bitcoin blockchain.A solo miner with only 116 TH of hashrate capacity found a valid block on Thursday to take home a 6.25 BTC reward worth over $267,500 at the time of writing, only a couple of days after another individual miner had made the same achievement. Both miners are part of the Solo CK bitcoin mining pool.“Congratulations to yet another small miner solving a block solo with only 116TH on http://solo.ckpool.org! They haven't even been mining a week with....
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