FutureBit Apollo Solo setup mines Bitcoin block 973,262 and earns 3.154 BTC

A miner using FutureBit’s Apollo Solo setup found Bitcoin block 973,262 earlier this week, taking the full 3.154 BTC reward along with fees from 2,477 transactions. Multiple block explorers, including mempool.space, labeled the finder as “FutureBit Apollo Solo,” and the coinbase transaction carried text referencing both FutureBit and Apollo. FutureBit said the block template was built by an Apollo device or a Solo Node running its built-in solo pool, which also served the work and submitted the completed block to the network. Public records do not show the exact hardware model or hashrate behind the winning hash, though the company said it could have been an Apollo BTC, Apollo II, Apollo III, or another compatible machine connected to a Solo Node. The company has now been linked to at least four solo-found blocks, and the report places the result in the broader context of home mining, where odds remain extremely low against a network hashrate recently near 1,070–1,087 EH/s, even as verified solo wins continue to appear on-chain.