Solo Home Bitcoin Miner Wins $232,000 Block Reward With $300 Machine
A solo Bitcoin miner found block 951771 via Braiins Solo on May 31 using a small home setup rated at about 147 TH/s, adding concrete details to a rare independent mining win.
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Fact Check
Mempool.space (authoritative blockchain explorer) directly confirms block 951771 was mined by Braiins Solo on 2026-05-31 at 00:27 UTC with a 3.14 BTC (~$231,752) reward, matching the claim's block number, pool, date, and approximate $232,000 figure. News.bitcoin.com corroborates the solo home miner narrative and the ~$300 Canaan Avalon Nano 3S machine. The ~147 TH/s figure refers to the miner's broader home fleet (the credited rig was 6.68 TH/s), a minor framing nuance but not a contradiction.
Summary
A solo Bitcoin miner mined block 951771 and earned a 3.14 BTC reward worth about $230,000, providing new details on a previously reported home-mining win. The block was found through Braiins Solo on May 31 at 08:27 Beijing time. The mining setup consisted of 12 Canaan Avalon Nano 3S units and two Avalon Mini 3 devices, delivering roughly 147 TH/s of hashpower. The event remains notable because solo miners compete without the scale of large mining farms or pooled hashpower.
Terms & Concepts
- Solo Bitcoin miner: A miner that tries to discover Bitcoin blocks independently rather than sharing computing power and rewards with a mining pool.
- Braiins Solo: A solo-mining service that allows individual miners to connect hashpower and attempt to find Bitcoin blocks on their own.
- TH/s: Terahashes per second, a standard measure of mining hashpower showing how many trillions of hash calculations a machine can perform each second.