{"id":629136,"date":"2026-07-14T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/hobby-level-miner-bags-200k-solo-btc-block-with-budget-bitaxe-rig\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:53:40","slug":"hobby-level-miner-bags-200k-solo-btc-block-with-budget-bitaxe-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/hobby-level-miner-bags-200k-solo-btc-block-with-budget-bitaxe-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby-level miner bags $200K solo BTC block with budget Bitaxe rig"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hobby-level<\/p>\n

A solo Bitcoin miner secured a $200,000 block reward with a budget mining rig, pushing payouts to hobby-level miners to $4.7 million for the past year.<\/p>\n

A solo Bitcoin miner hit the jackpot and validated a solo block with a single Bitaxe mining rig, marking a rare win that beat massive statistical odds.<\/p>\n

The retail Bitcoin miner secured a 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) block reward, currently worth about $200,000, on Friday at block number 957382, according<\/a> to blockchain data from mempool.space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The miner was using a single Bitaxe mining rig, according<\/a> to the BTC mining pool Public Pool. That Bitaxe<\/a> is a budget, lower-power Bitcoin miner that costs less than $200 and has a hashrate of about 1 terahash per second (TH\/s), which is a tiny fraction of the global Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n

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A solo Bitcoin miner secured a $200,000 block reward with a budget mining rig, pushing payouts to hobby-level miners to $4.7 million for the past year. A solo Bitcoin miner hit the jackpot and validated a solo block with a single Bitaxe mining rig, marking a rare win that beat massive statistical odds. The retail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}