Synopsis: A hobbyist miner beat 1-in-180-million odds to solo-mine a $265,000 Bitcoin jackpot using a single old ASIC with 6 TH/s, proving small-scale mining can still win big.
A lone hobbyist miner has turned a backyard-style setup into a headline win, beating “1 in 180 million” odds to collect a Bitcoin jackpot worth about $265,000. The miner solved a full block using just one older ASIC machine delivering around 6 terahashes per second of hashpower.
Tiny Rig, Huge Bitcoin Payout
On November 21, 2025, the miner solo-mined block 924,569 through the Solo CKpool platform, securing 3.146 BTC, including transaction fees. At a Bitcoin price near $84,200, that payout is valued at roughly $265,000, an amount most home miners only dream about.
The reward combined the 3.125 BTC block subsidy with about 0.021 BTC in fees, all paid directly via the block’s coinbase transaction to the miner’s address. Personally, this feels less like routine mining income and more like hitting the crypto equivalent of a life-changing lottery ticket.
Beating 1-in-180-Million Odds
The miner’s 6 TH/s contributed just 0.0000007% of Bitcoin’s total network hashpower, which recently hit a record 855.7 exahashes per second. CKpool creator Con Kolivas calculated that such a setup faces roughly a one in 180 million chance of solving any single block.
Because the network processes about 144 blocks a day, the miner’s daily odds came out to about one in 1.2 million, implying more than 3,000 years of continuous mining to “expect” one win. From a practical point of view, almost nobody would plan a mining strategy around odds like that, which makes this success even more striking.
CKpool’s Rare Solo Block Win
This block is the 308th ever mined through CKpool since its launch in 2014, and the first solo success on the service in nearly three months. CKpool lets users solo mine using the pool’s infrastructure, so the winning address keeps the full block reward, minus a 2% fee for the service.
The miner, identified in pool logs as worker “3K99~Ct8M,” used a single old-generation ASIC delivering about 6.01 TH/s, the kind of machine many large farms would consider outdated. Honestly, it is refreshing to see hardware that modest outperform industrial-scale setups, even if only for one very lucky block.
What This Means for Home Miners
The story quickly spread across X and Reddit, with community members calling it one of the luckiest solo-mined blocks in recent Bitcoin history. Many posts framed the event as proof that small players still have a mathematical shot, even as massive mining farms dominate most of the network’s hashpower.
Solo mining, however, remains a high-risk hobby as rising difficulty, electricity costs, and ASIC obsolescence squeeze potential profits for small miners. Still, wins like this keep the dream alive and reminds people why Bitcoin’s proof-of-work system still feels like an open lottery rather than a closed club.
Written By Fazal Ul Vahab C H
