🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1622 Bitcoin — worth $254,596 today.
On Aug 1, 2026, this miner using mining hardware found block #960,612. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (921.26 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 164 blocks found from this address
9.23 EH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 164 blocks over 163 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 9.23 EH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 9.23 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 164 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (164 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
164 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 2,456,729,106 was the winner.
02,456,729,106 ← winner4,294,967,295
2,456,729,106
Winning Nonce
1,838,238,189
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 (98.82%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.037206 BTC (1.18%)
From 4,473 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 — 164 Blocks Found
516.0941
Total BTC earned
$41,551,769
Total USD value
Sep 9, 2026 · 06:24 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1332 BTC ≈ $252,261
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 9, 2026 · 19:56 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1444 BTC ≈ $253,160
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 10, 2026 · 18:23 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1751 BTC ≈ $255,633
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 10, 2026 · 19:48 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1434 BTC ≈ $253,082
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 11, 2026 · 02:41 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1363 BTC ≈ $252,511
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 11, 2026 · 20:46 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1389 BTC ≈ $252,716
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 12, 2026 · 05:07 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1298 BTC ≈ $251,984
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 12, 2026 · 19:11 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1438 BTC ≈ $253,111
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 13, 2026 · 00:51 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1327 BTC ≈ $252,219
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 08:34 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1384 BTC ≈ $252,677
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 09:42 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1316 BTC ≈ $252,129
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 10:34 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1521 BTC ≈ $253,784
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 17:36 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1322 BTC ≈ $252,181
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 07:30 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1332 BTC ≈ $252,263
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 18:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1420 BTC ≈ $252,968
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 19:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1276 BTC ≈ $251,808
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 11:23 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1353 BTC ≈ $252,427
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 11:39 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1392 BTC ≈ $252,741
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 18, 2026 · 21:46 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1517 BTC ≈ $253,747
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 19, 2026 · 00:33 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1545 BTC ≈ $253,972
⏱ 0 days since previous find