🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Someone spent a small amount of money to rent mining power from NiceHash for a short time. They pointed it at the Bitcoin network solo, hoping to win the lottery.
On Apr 1, 2026, against enormous odds, they hit the jackpot — block #943,193 worth $210,961. The cost of renting that hashrate? A fraction of the reward.
🎲 The Odds — Show Your Work
Miner's share of total Bitcoin hashrate
0.481027%
Miner: 4.8 EH/s vs Network: 998.32 EH/s
Miner hashrate (Estimated from block frequency (55 blocks found))
4.8 EH/s
Bitcoin network hashrate
998.32 EH/s
Chance of winning each block
1 in 208
Expected wait time at this hashrate
1 days
Expected blocks to find 1 solo block
208 blocks
Probability per block = miner_hashrate / network_hashrate
= 4.8 EH/s / 998.32 EH/s
= 1 in 208
Expected wait = blocks_to_win × 10 minutes
= 208 × 10 min = 1 days
⛏️ Miner Profile
Hashrate (24h)
4.8 EH/s (est. from 55 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (55 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
55 blocks
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Industrial mining operation
Multiple EH/s — major mining company
🎯 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 3,342,612,059 was the winner.
03,342,612,059 ← winner4,294,967,295
3,342,612,059
Winning Nonce
952,355,236
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 (99.21%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.024897 BTC (0.79%)
From 3,522 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 — 55 Blocks Found
173.0477
Total BTC earned
$11,589,699
Total USD value
Feb 7, 2026 · 04:52 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1379 BTC ≈ $210,154
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 7, 2026 · 10:26 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1276 BTC ≈ $209,468
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 7, 2026 · 15:19 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1383 BTC ≈ $210,187
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 7, 2026 · 22:04 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1389 BTC ≈ $210,223
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 8, 2026 · 12:53 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1545 BTC ≈ $211,271
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Feb 8, 2026 · 17:17 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1265 BTC ≈ $209,396
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 8, 2026 · 18:46 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1537 BTC ≈ $211,214
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 9, 2026 · 01:05 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1360 BTC ≈ $210,030
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 11, 2026 · 04:19 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1293 BTC ≈ $209,585
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Feb 11, 2026 · 06:16 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1343 BTC ≈ $209,919
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 13, 2026 · 00:24 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1365 BTC ≈ $210,064
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Feb 15, 2026 · 11:20 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1470 BTC ≈ $210,767
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Feb 16, 2026 · 22:23 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1295 BTC ≈ $209,593
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Feb 16, 2026 · 23:05 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1430 BTC ≈ $210,499
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 17, 2026 · 07:12 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1300 BTC ≈ $209,626
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Feb 19, 2026 · 00:12 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1276 BTC ≈ $209,467
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Feb 21, 2026 · 13:41 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1422 BTC ≈ $210,447
⏱ 3 days since previous find
Feb 26, 2026 · 02:31 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1345 BTC ≈ $209,931
⏱ 5 days since previous find
Feb 27, 2026 · 08:37 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1552 BTC ≈ $211,315
⏱ 1 days since previous find
#943,193THIS BLOCK
Apr 1, 2026 · 09:25 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1499 BTC ≈ $210,961
⏱ 33 days since previous find
📊 At 4.8 EH/s hashrate, statistically expected to find a block every 1 days. Actual average: 1 days. 🍀 Running hot!