On February 28, 2024, a user known as "Rafnul" managed to get his NerdMiner to find a block on its own on the testnet. This milestone was recorded in block 2,579,763 of the testnet, mined by the address "tb1qr7rqr72qwhr78cjvgpv0dakrqfjpag7mw7ap2w" with the worker ID "Rafnul_3".
It is important to note that this achievement occurred on the testnet, where the mining difficulty is significantly lower than on the mainnet of $BTC . To date, there are no records of a NerdMiner finding a block on the Bitcoin mainnet, due to the high mining difficulty that it presents.
The NerdMiner is an ESP32 microcontroller-based device that implements the Stratum protocol for mining on mining pools, originally designed to work with public-pool.io, where NerdMiners are supported.
It is important to note that this achievement occurred on the testnet, where the mining difficulty is significantly lower than on the mainnet of $BTC . To date, there are no records of a NerdMiner finding a block on the Bitcoin mainnet, due to the high mining difficulty that it presents.
The NerdMiner is an ESP32 microcontroller-based device that implements the Stratum protocol for mining on mining pools, originally designed to work with public-pool.io, where NerdMiners are supported.
