{"id":19875,"date":"2024-09-13T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=19875"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:30:41","slug":"bitcoin-miner-claims-180000-block-reward-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/bitcoin-miner-claims-180000-block-reward-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bitcoin miner received a block reward on his own: $180,000!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Bitcoin miner achieved a rare feat by single-handedly receiving a reward from block 860749. This uncommon event earned the miner approximately $180,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The miner successfully claimed the reward of 3.169 BTC from block 860749, a notable accomplishment given the miner&#8217;s modest system. According to data from Bitcoin transaction tracker YCharts, the miner was operating with 629 petahashes of power at the time of solving the block, representing just 0.098% of the entire network&#8217;s power. Despite this, the miner, registered with a mining pool called Solo CK, was able to claim the reward independently. Solo CK operates with smaller miners pooling their resources, but under its rules, a single miner can win the full reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This rare occurrence has only happened 290 times in Bitcoin&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Bitcoin-miner-received-a-block-reward-on-his-own-180000-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"A Bitcoin miner received a block reward on his own: $180,000!\" class=\"wp-image-19876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Bitcoin-miner-received-a-block-reward-on-his-own-180000-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Bitcoin-miner-received-a-block-reward-on-his-own-180000-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Bitcoin-miner-received-a-block-reward-on-his-own-180000-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Bitcoin-miner-received-a-block-reward-on-his-own-180000-390x220.jpeg 390w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Bitcoin-miner-received-a-block-reward-on-his-own-180000-150x84.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Bitcoin-miner-received-a-block-reward-on-his-own-180000-scaled.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Bitcoin&#8217;s launch in 2009, approximately 860,000 blocks have been mined on the network, with the vast majority produced by mining pools. As mentioned earlier, the event of a single miner solving a block has only occurred 290 times, underscoring how rare this phenomenon is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, it&#8217;s worth noting that Bitcoin mining difficulty has reached an all-time high as of September 2024. Research shows that the difficulty level has surged to 742 exahashes (EH\/s). Given the significant challenge of solving Bitcoin blocks at such a high difficulty, it is truly remarkable that a single miner could earn a reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You may also like this content<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bitcoin miner achieved a rare feat by single-handedly receiving a reward from block 860749. This uncommon event earned the miner approximately $180,000. The miner successfully claimed the reward of 3.169 BTC from block 860749, a notable accomplishment given the miner&#8217;s modest system. According to data from Bitcoin transaction tracker YCharts, the miner was operating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-19875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web3new","tag-crypto-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41100,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19875\/revisions\/41100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}