Individual miners occasionally win full block rewards despite rising network difficulty and corporate dominance. Profitability hinges on hashrate, energy cost, hardware efficiency, difficulty level, ...

You’re not late to Bitcoin because “early” is measured in blocks, not years. 95% of all Bitcoin block subsidies have already been issued, yet less than a million subsidized blocks have been mined in a ...

How unlikely was it for one solo miner to beat the odds and win a Bitcoin block? On June 5, 2025, a solo miner pulled off what most would call impossible: solving a Bitcoin block alone and earning ...

At a time when Bitcoin (BTC) mining is dominated by large-scale mining farms with advanced, specialized hardware, the odds of a solo miner striking the so-called digital gold are astronomically low.

The block reward is the incentive given to bitcoin miners for securing the blockchain and creating new blocks. It comprises newly minted bitcoin — the subsidy — and transaction fees. The primary ...