🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.2610 Bitcoin — worth $263,884 today.
On Feb 5, 2026, this miner using a Large mining farm found block #935,172. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (937.96 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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⚡ Small Pool / Farm
Based on 2 blocks found from this address
72.5 PH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 2 blocks over 194 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 72.5 PH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 72.5 PH/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
Miner's share of total Bitcoin hashrate
0.003864%
Miner: 36.2 PH/s vs Network: 937.96 EH/s
Miner hashrate (Estimated from block frequency (2 blocks found))
36.2 PH/s
Bitcoin network hashrate
937.96 EH/s
Chance of winning each block
1 in 25,878
Expected wait time at this hashrate
180 days
Expected blocks to find 1 solo block
25,878 blocks
Probability per block = miner_hashrate / network_hashrate
= 36.2 PH/s / 937.96 EH/s
= 1 in 25,878
Expected wait = blocks_to_win × 10 minutes
= 25,878 × 10 min = 5.9 months
⛏️ Miner Profile
Hashrate (24h)
36.2 PH/s (est. from 2 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (2 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
2 blocks
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Large mining farm
Thousands of ASICs, industrial power
🎯 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 4,163,544,173 was the winner.
04,163,544,173 ← winner4,294,967,295
4,163,544,173
Winning Nonce
131,423,122
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 ~0ms.
💸 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 (95.83%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.135971 BTC (4.17%)
From 3,513 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 — 2 Blocks Found
194 days
Avg between finds
#935,172THIS BLOCK
Feb 5, 2026 · 22:30 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.2610 BTC ≈ $263,884
Aug 19, 2026 · 05:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1488 BTC ≈ $254,811
⏱ 194 days since previous find
📊 At 36.2 PH/s hashrate, statistically expected to find a block every 180 days. Actual average: 194 days. ✅ Right on track.