A solo miner who used a compact ASIC device, the Bitaxe, with a hashrate of about 1 TH/s, independently found the Bitcoin block #957 382 and received a reward of 3.1382 BTC. At the exchange rate at the time of the transaction, this was approximately $200,590, according to mempool data.
Mining was carried out via a Public Pool, which does not charge fees, so the operator received 100% of block rewards, including the subsidy and transaction fees.
According to Bitcoin News data, the device was running without overclocking and was the only miner connected to this address. The block contained about 4,900 transactions.
According to experts, with a hash rate of 1 TH/s the statistical probability of finding a block on your own is approximately once every 16,000–18,000 years, making the event extremely rare.
