🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1819 Bitcoin — worth $257,224 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 (932.97 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 141 blocks found from this address
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 141 blocks over 140 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 9 EH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 9 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 141 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (141 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
141 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 — 141 Blocks Found
443.8094
Total BTC earned
$35,877,105
Total USD value
Aug 24, 2026 · 00:51 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1299 BTC ≈ $253,018
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 24, 2026 · 12:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1412 BTC ≈ $253,930
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 25, 2026 · 08:59 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1667 BTC ≈ $255,995
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 25, 2026 · 20:08 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1514 BTC ≈ $254,754
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 26, 2026 · 12:50 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1396 BTC ≈ $253,802
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 26, 2026 · 20:26 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1363 BTC ≈ $253,532
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 27, 2026 · 09:18 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1370 BTC ≈ $253,590
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 27, 2026 · 20:00 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1369 BTC ≈ $253,583
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 28, 2026 · 13:47 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1591 BTC ≈ $255,380
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 28, 2026 · 22:41 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1711 BTC ≈ $256,349
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 30, 2026 · 15:21 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1327 BTC ≈ $253,243
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Aug 30, 2026 · 22:47 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1306 BTC ≈ $253,075
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 31, 2026 · 20:02 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1409 BTC ≈ $253,906
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 31, 2026 · 22:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1341 BTC ≈ $253,354
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 19:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1634 BTC ≈ $255,724
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 19:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1385 BTC ≈ $253,713
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 19:53 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1485 BTC ≈ $254,525
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 21:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1305 BTC ≈ $253,064
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 2, 2026 · 08:14 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1531 BTC ≈ $254,891
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 4, 2026 · 03:27 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1396 BTC ≈ $253,799
⏱ 2 days since previous find