Another solo major got a bitcoin block

On February 1, an unknown single miner included in the blockchain of the first cryptocurrency block #721 310. This was announced by Kon Colivas, administrator of the CKPool pool.

This is the https://gagarin.news/ fourth similar case from the beginning of the year. But this time, the power of the production equipment was an order of magnitude greater – 1.14 ph/s. This approximately corresponds to the combined hash of 11 ASIC devices Antminer S19J Pro from Bitmain.

Given the transaction commissions, the reward of the miner amounted to about 6.284 BTC (~ $ 244,611).

According to Colivas, at the time of the Bloc, the probability that one of the pools connected to the pool will do this was estimated at approximately 20%.

In total, with the help of the CKPool service, solo-major has already calculated 264 blocks, the administrator added.

January 11, an unknown person got a block with equipment capacity of 126 Th/S. The probability of such an event was less than 0.0001%.

On January 13, luck accompanied the CKPool participant with devices with a common hash of 116 Th/S. The third one found from the beginning of the year has a single miner-capacity block of its mini-farm was only 86 Th/S.

Recall, on January 21, as a result of the next recalculation, the complexity of Bitcoin mining reached a record mark of 26.64 tons .