An anonymous solo miner using Braiins Solo found Bitcoin block 966351 and received the full 3.147 BTC reward, worth about $245,000. Bitcoin News reported that the event was the first individual Bitcoin block discovery in roughly 40 days, since Aug. 3. The five largest mining pools controlled 78.31% of Bitcoin’s hashrate, or total network computing power. An earlier record identified Aug. 2 and Solo CKPool as the previous reported solo-mining event.