Yesterday, February 1, an unknown lone miner included block #721,310 on the Bitcoin blockchain, Con Kolivas, administrator of the CKPool pool, has announced.
Notably, this is the fourth time this has happened so far this year. However, this time, the power of the mining equipment was higher than other times: 1.14 PH/s. This is close to the combined hashrate of 11 Bitmain Antminer S19j Pro devices.
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Including transaction fees, the miner's reward has been approximately 6,284 BTC (about $244,611).
According to Kolivas, at the time the block was mined, the probability that someone connected to the pool would mine it was estimated at around 20%.
In total, with the help of the CKPool service, individual miners have already calculated 264 blocks, the administrator has added.
Last January 11, an unknown user mined a block with a hardware capacity of 126 TH/s. The probability of this happening was less than 0.0001%.