Individual ETH miner hits jackpot with $540K block reward

A person Ether (ETH) miner struck it large by mining a block on their very own and receiving a reward valued at about $540,000. 

The miner was working via the 2miners Ethereum SOLO pool on Jan. 17 after they mined a whole block and acquired 168 ETH. That reward vastly outstrips the per-block common reward of about 4 ETH in line with BitInfoCharts.

Including to the outstanding nature of the reward is the dimensions and hash energy of the SOLO pool. It’s comparatively small with 854 miners on-line and 1.5 Tera hashes per second at time of writing, that means that the typical miner contributes 1.85 Giga hashes per second. The fortunate miner at present contributes 2.25 Giga hashes per second which may very well be generated between 1 to twenty of the most recent GPU units.

Hash energy is the quantity of pc processing energy a tool contributes to a Proof-of-Work blockchain like Ethereum and Bitcoin. Extra hashpower helps safe the community by processing transactions and mining blocks.

The fortunate jackpot on the Ethereum community marks the third time in two weeks that an individual crypto miner has hit the large time. A Bitcoin (BTC) miner from the Solo CK nameless solo mining operation raked in 6.25 BTC for mining a whole block on their very own on Jan. 11.

Two days later, another solo miner utilizing Solo CK once more mined a brand new block on Bitcoin with just one to 3 rigs.

Every miner had a 1 in 1,400,000 probability of mining a whole block, and the possibilities of two tiny miners managing the identical feat in the identical week have been estimated at 1 in a billion.

Common every day Ethereum mining profitability has been on a decline because it spiked to an all time excessive of $0.282 on Might 12, 2021. Common profitability is now about $0.0474 in line with BitInfoCharts. That is partly due to EIP-1559 which burns charges reasonably than distributing them to miners.

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A jackpot reward just like the one earlier this week could also be consigned to the previous when the Ethereum community completes “the Merge,” referring to its transfer to a Proof-of-Stake (POS) consensus algorithm. With POS, community stability is maintained by staking tokens. This can scale back {the electrical} useful resource necessities of the community.