Solo bitcoin miner turns $75 of rented hashrate into a $200,000 block reward

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• February 25, 2026 at 07:30 PM
Solo bitcoin miner turns $75 of rented hashrate into a $200,000 block reward

The miner rented 1 petahash per second through on-demand cloud mining and got lucky on block 938,092, one of 21 solo-mined blocks in the past year.

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