Solo Bitcoin miner earns about $200,000 after finding block 957,382 with Bitaxe
A hobbyist miner using a roughly $150-$200 Bitaxe rig found a Bitcoin block through Public Pool, as solo miners discovered 24 blocks in the past 12 months, up 41% year over year.
A solo Bitcoin miner using a single Bitaxe rig found Bitcoin block 957,382 through Public Pool and secured the 3.125 BTC block subsidy, worth about $200,000 at current prices. The low-cost machine, reported at roughly $150 to under $200 and running at about 1 TH/s, illustrates how solo mining can still produce rare outsized payouts despite Bitcoin mining being dominated by industrial-scale operators. Over the past 12 months, solo miners have validated 24 Bitcoin blocks, up 41% from the prior year, according to Bennet solo-miner data. Those wins totaled 75.4 BTC, or more than $4.7 million, and included 12 blocks found so far in 2026. The figures underscore the lottery-like nature of solo mining, where individuals mine independently rather than pooling computing power for steadier rewards.
- solo mining: A setup in which a miner works independently and receives the full block reward if it finds a valid block.
- hashrate: The amount of computing power a miner contributes to securing the network and attempting to solve blocks.
- mining pool: A service or group in which miners combine computing power and typically share rewards more predictably than solo miners.