A Bitcoin miner has a 1 in 180 million chance of mining a block worth $265,000.

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Golden Finance reported that a retail investor using Solo CKpool with a computing power of only 6 TH/s unexpectedly mined a block, earning approximately $265,000 in Bitcoin rewards. Based on the total network computing power, its daily block discovery probability is only about 1 in 180 million. This is the first successful CKpool block in the past three months and the 308th since the software was launched in 2014.

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· 2025-11-21 23:45
Golden Finance reports that a retail investor using Solo CKpool with a computing power of only 6 TH/s unexpectedly mined a block, receiving approximately $265,000 in Bitcoin rewards. Based on the total network computing power, its daily block generation probability is only about 1 in 180 million. This is the first successful block mined by CKpool in the past three months, and the 308th since the software was launched in 2014.
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