๐คฏ Someone just won the Bitcoin lottery with a device that costs less than a pair of sneakers.
On July 9th, a hobbyist plugged in a $150 Bitaxe miner at home. Eight hours later, it beat out roughly 900 EXAHASHES of industrial mining power โ an entire network of billion-dollar warehouses โ to solo-mine block .
The reward? The full 3.1382
$BTC block subsidy. Worth about $200,000. ๐ฐ
Here's what makes this wild:
That tiny device represented a microscopic fraction of the network's total power. Statistically, the odds were closer to winning a real-world lottery than "working hard enough" to earn it.
But Bitcoin doesn't care about size. Every single hash โ from a $150 box or a $250 million facility โ has the exact same chance to solve the next block. ๐
That's not luck. That's the entire point of the protocol.
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This won't happen to most people who try it. The realistic daily odds for a device this size are still measured in fractions of a cent. But once in a while, the "impossible" happens โ and it's a reminder of what makes this whole system different from everything that came before it.
Would you risk $150 for a shot at this? ๐
๐ข Yes, I'd try it
๐ด No, I'll stick to trading
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