An independent Bitcoin miner successfully mined a Bitcoin block yesterday and received a block reward of 3.125 BTC, plus a transaction fee of 0.033 BTC, totaling 3.158 BTC. Based on the Bitcoin price at the time, which was around $98,300 per coin, the value of this reward is approximately $310,000.
The identity of this miner is unknown, but the miner successfully processed Bitcoin block 883,181, which contained 3,071 transactions. It is currently unclear what equipment this miner used, but some community users on X (formerly Twitter) speculate that he may have completed the mining with just a hobbyist miner worth $200.
As time goes on, Bitcoin mining has become increasingly difficult, with the required computing power and energy consumption significantly increasing. Nowadays, most blocks are mined by large mining farms equipped with a large number of high-performance mining machines, operating at scale.
However, despite the extremely low probability, “independent miners” occasionally still succeed in mining blocks, similar to winning the lottery. As reported by Zombit previously, there have been two instances in 2024 where independent miners successfully received mining rewards, with a value of approximately $200,000. Reference source.
