‘1 in a billion’: Second tiny miner solves a block

Small-time bitcoin miners are making headlines for essentially hitting the jackpot by mining full blocks all on their own. In what has become a modern-day ‘gold rush’, bitcoin enthusiasts are now taking to booting up small USB miners will tiny hash rates to try their luck in what is eerily similar to buying lottery tickets. Among the miners who have rushed to this, a few have hit the ultimate prize. Solo Bitcoin Miner Gets Full Block In an unlikely event, a solo miner was able to mine a full bitcoin block with a low hash rate. This was made public by Dr. Kolivas, a software engineer that....

A 'whale' solo Bitcoin miner with a whopping 1.14PH/s computing power solved a valid block on Tuesday. Hopium is back on the menu for solo Bitcoin (BTC) miners. A circa $240,000 reward, or 6.25 BTC, was generated by yet another solo miner this morning. This time, the odds were less than 20%, according to Con Kolivas, a Bitcoin software engineer and administrator for ckpool, whose name takes his initials. It’s the fourth “blockfind” for the ckpool since Jan. 11. Kolivas tweeted his congratulations to the miner who joins the ranks of the few and fortunate successful solo BTC miners.....

Despite having a modest hashrate capacity of about 126 TH/s, the lucky miner won the crypto equivalent of the lottery and took home 6.25 BTC worth about $266,000. A single Bitcoin miner from the Solo CK mining pool has defied the odds after successfully adding a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain, taking home 6.25 BTC ($266,000) for their efforts. The lucky miner, who may have been mining on just one or two machines, solved a block with their modest hashrate capacity of 126 TH/s. According to a Jan 11 tweet from Solo admin, Dr. Con Kolivas it’s equivalent to about 0.000072% of the total....

A solo Ethereum miner has just gotten what could be described as the lucky break of a lifetime after mining a single ethereum block that netted them a reward that ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. While ethereum’s mining difficulty is not as high compared to bitcoin, it is still a difficult, energy and computationally intensive process that discourages the average person. However, a lot of solo miners remain in the ethereum ecosystem and continue to make a profit from their mining activities. Although not all of the miners get to mine a single block that delivers a reward with....

As we are all aware of, if you want to keep on mining in the Bitcoin universe, you'll need an ASIC miner sooner or later, if you want to be profitable that is. We've been through a passage of USB ASIC miners (the Block Erupters) which are now rapidly declining in price. It has recently come to my attention that there are 2 new ASIC's announced, which are supposedly in stock. That is something you don't see too often (but it has happened before). So let's take a look at these two new Bitcoin ASIC's, shall we? First up, we have the Red Fury USB miner. Yes, that's right, a new USB miner.....