🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1819 Bitcoin — worth $245,047 today.
On May 15, 2026, this miner using mining hardware found block #949,543. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (968.32 EH/s total).
Winning solo means keeping 100% of the reward — no pool fees, no sharing. High risk, high reward.
⚠️ Miner Identity Assessment
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🏭 Large Unknown Pool
Based on 5 blocks found from this address
5.34 EH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 5 blocks over 8 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 5.34 EH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 5.34 EH/s this is a large mining operation — likely an unregistered pool or industrial farm that mempool.space doesn't yet have a signature for. We display the block for completeness but mark it accordingly.
🎲 The Odds — Show Your Work
Hashrate unknown for this miner — odds cannot be calculated. They found a single block; their true hashrate is a mystery.
⛏️ Miner Profile
Hashrate (24h)
Unknown (est. from 5 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (5 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
5 blocks
🎯 The Winning Number — Nonce Visualizer
To mine a block, the miner cycles through numbers from 0 to 4,294,967,295 at billions per second, checking if each produces a valid hash. Number 1,161,812,749 was the winner.
01,161,812,749 ← winner4,294,967,295
1,161,812,749
Winning Nonce
3,133,154,546
Numbers after
💡 The miner also tried different extra nonce values — restarting from 0 each time the full 4.29B range was exhausted. Modern ASICs can cycle through the entire nonce space in ~4294967.3ms.
💸 Fee Breakdown — What the Miner Captured
The block reward has two parts: a fixed subsidy set by Bitcoin protocol, plus transaction fees paid by users who wanted their transactions included.
Subsidy — 3.1250 BTC (98.21%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.056934 BTC (1.79%)
From 3,611 transactions in this block
⚡ Solo miners keep 100% of fees — no pool takes a cut. In pool mining, the fee revenue is also split among all pool members.
🏆 Miner Block History — 5 Blocks Found
$1,212,839
Total USD value
#949,543THIS BLOCK
May 15, 2026 · 18:12 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1819 BTC ≈ $245,047
May 16, 2026 · 15:45 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1590 BTC ≈ $243,284
⏱ 1 days since previous find
May 18, 2026 · 03:58 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1318 BTC ≈ $241,184
⏱ 2 days since previous find
May 21, 2026 · 08:11 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1356 BTC ≈ $241,475
⏱ 3 days since previous find
May 22, 2026 · 09:55 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1404 BTC ≈ $241,850
⏱ 1 days since previous find