🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1768 Bitcoin — worth $214,689 today.
On Oct 9, 2025, this miner using mining hardware found block #918,320. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (1020.75 EH/s total).
Winning solo means keeping 100% of the reward — no pool fees, no sharing. High risk, high reward.
🎲 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 19 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (19 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
19 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 1,436,538,180 was the winner.
01,436,538,180 ← winner4,294,967,295
1,436,538,180
Winning Nonce
2,858,429,115
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 (98.37%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.051808 BTC (1.63%)
From 3,979 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 — 19 Blocks Found
$4,038,306
Total USD value
Sep 19, 2025 · 00:45 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1385 BTC ≈ $212,101
Sep 23, 2025 · 02:39 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1297 BTC ≈ $211,502
⏱ 4 days since previous find
Sep 25, 2025 · 20:27 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1413 BTC ≈ $212,288
⏱ 3 days since previous find
Sep 25, 2025 · 23:36 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1400 BTC ≈ $212,200
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 26, 2025 · 09:06 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1417 BTC ≈ $212,315
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 30, 2025 · 12:10 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1341 BTC ≈ $211,803
⏱ 4 days since previous find
#918,320THIS BLOCK
Oct 9, 2025 · 14:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1768 BTC ≈ $214,689
⏱ 9 days since previous find
Oct 12, 2025 · 13:51 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1550 BTC ≈ $213,213
⏱ 3 days since previous find
Oct 13, 2025 · 15:12 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1401 BTC ≈ $212,207
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Oct 28, 2025 · 11:30 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1314 BTC ≈ $211,623
⏱ 15 days since previous find
Nov 4, 2025 · 16:53 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1513 BTC ≈ $212,965
⏱ 7 days since previous find
Nov 7, 2025 · 01:10 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1428 BTC ≈ $212,392
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Nov 24, 2025 · 05:27 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1387 BTC ≈ $212,116
⏱ 17 days since previous find
Jan 1, 2026 · 00:42 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1429 BTC ≈ $212,399
⏱ 38 days since previous find
Jan 23, 2026 · 06:44 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1322 BTC ≈ $211,675
⏱ 22 days since previous find
Feb 25, 2026 · 08:05 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1786 BTC ≈ $214,808
⏱ 33 days since previous find
Mar 3, 2026 · 06:00 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1341 BTC ≈ $211,805
⏱ 6 days since previous find
Mar 5, 2026 · 07:01 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1335 BTC ≈ $211,765
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Mar 7, 2026 · 15:44 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1731 BTC ≈ $214,440
⏱ 2 days since previous find