Bitcoin2026-07-13 02:33:46Solo home miner finds Bitcoin block with Bitaxe device, earns about $200,000A solo home miner found Bitcoin block 957382 at around 03:30 on July 9 using a handheld Bitaxe device through Public Pool, according to Odaily, citing Bitcoin.com News. The miner received the full 3.1382 BTC block reward, worth about $200,000 at the time. The payout included the standard 3.125 BTC block subsidy and roughly 0.0132 BTC in transaction fees. The device averaged 995.2 GH/s and submitted the winning share after running for about eight hours. Bitaxe is an open-source, single-chip Bitcoin miner built on Bitmain's BM1370 chip. Its Gamma series typically delivers about 1.0 to 1.3 TH/s, uses 15 to 21 watts of power, and usually sells for $60 to $150. The case highlights a rare block win by a low-cost, low-power setup connected to a public mining pool.1420
Bitcoin2026-07-12 01:14:37Solo miner with 1 TH/s Bitaxe rig lands 3.1382 BTC block rewardA solo Bitcoin miner using a Bitaxe ASIC machine with roughly 1 TH/s of hashrate mined block 957,382 and took the full 3.1382 BTC block reward, according to BlockBeats. The payout was worth about $200,000. The report said the machine used a single chip and was not overclocked. The miner was connected to Public Pool, a zero-fee mining pool, which allowed the operator to keep 100% of the block subsidy and transaction fees. The machine’s effective share difficulty reached 294.14T, more than double the 133.87T needed to solve the block. Based on a 1 TH/s hashrate, the average time to mine a block is estimated at about once every 16,000 years. BlockBeats described the event as highly unusual, while noting that the daily odds were still about 53 times higher than winning a lottery ticket.1380
Bitcoin2026-07-12 00:37:55Single-chip Bitaxe miner finds Bitcoin block 957,382 and claims full 3.1382 BTC rewardA single-chip Bitaxe ASIC miner has found Bitcoin block 957,382 and collected the full 3.1382 BTC block reward, worth about $200,580, according to Bitcoin News. The machine reportedly runs at roughly 1 TH/s and was the only device tied to that address. Because the miner was operating through a public mining pool with a 0% fee, the owner kept 100% of the block subsidy and transaction fees. Bitcoin News said the block was mined at a difficulty of 294.14T, more than 2.2 times the required difficulty of 133.87T. At a hashrate of 1 TH/s, the odds of finding a block average about once every 16,000 years, making the event exceptionally rare by the report’s estimate. The result stands out because the machine used only a single chip, yet still managed to solve a valid Bitcoin block and secure the full payout.1350
