An independent Bitcoin miner successfully mined a Bitcoin memory block yesterday and received a memory block reward of 3.125 BTC, plus a transaction fee of 0.033 BTC, totaling 3.158 BTC. Based on the Bitcoin price of approximately $98300 per coin at the time, this reward is worth around $310000.
This unidentified miner successfully processed Bitcoin memory block 883181, which contained 3071 transactions. It is currently unclear what device the miner used, but some community users speculated on X (formerly Twitter) that he may have completed the mining with just a $200 amateur mining machine.
Bitcoin mining has become increasingly difficult over time, with a significant increase in required computing power and energy consumption. Nowadays, most memory blocks are mined by large mining farms, which are equipped with a large number of high-performance mining machines and operate on a large scale.
However, despite the extremely low probability, "independent miners" occasionally succeed in mining memory blocks, just like winning a lottery. According to previous reports by Zombiet, there were two incidents in 2024 where independent miners received mining rewards worth approximately $200000.
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