Bitcoin mining has become an industrialized lottery, yet "small miners hitting big prizes" stories still happen. In November 2026, two retail miners using home mining machines mined two blocks within 7 hours, taking away a total of $476,000. Behind this lies extremely low probability—the winning mining machine had a hashrate of only about 80 TH/s, and under normal circumstances would need to run continuously for over a hundred years to have a chance of hitting a block. Currently, Bitcoin's block reward is 3.125 BTC, with prices fluctuating around $74,000.
For ordinary people, solo mining is essentially gambling. The vast majority of miners choose to join mining pools, contributing their hashrate in exchange for relatively stable but smaller daily returns. The truly steady profits go to mining machine manufacturers and solo mining pool platforms—the latter take about 2% of block rewards as fees. Those small mining machines that get lucky once every few months are essentially free advertising for the entire industry chain, luring more people to spend hundreds of dollars on hardware and continuously pay electricity bills. If you want to participate, be sure to treat it as entertainment spending rather than an investment, and never expect to make money from it.#HuangRisksOusterOverReportedAffairWithSubordinate #AnthropicRejectsIPODelayValuationinQuestion #CoreWeaveJumps10%On168%RevenueGrowth #CanNvidiaEarningsEaseMarketConcerns? #StrategyMetaplanetLoseMSCIIndexMembership $NVDAB $NVDAB
For ordinary people, solo mining is essentially gambling. The vast majority of miners choose to join mining pools, contributing their hashrate in exchange for relatively stable but smaller daily returns. The truly steady profits go to mining machine manufacturers and solo mining pool platforms—the latter take about 2% of block rewards as fees. Those small mining machines that get lucky once every few months are essentially free advertising for the entire industry chain, luring more people to spend hundreds of dollars on hardware and continuously pay electricity bills. If you want to participate, be sure to treat it as entertainment spending rather than an investment, and never expect to make money from it.#HuangRisksOusterOverReportedAffairWithSubordinate #AnthropicRejectsIPODelayValuationinQuestion #CoreWeaveJumps10%On168%RevenueGrowth #CanNvidiaEarningsEaseMarketConcerns? #StrategyMetaplanetLoseMSCIIndexMembership $NVDAB $NVDAB