🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1431 Bitcoin — worth $267,163 today.
On Aug 5, 2026, this miner using mining hardware found block #961,118. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (936.79 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 153 blocks found from this address
9.04 EH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 153 blocks over 152 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 9.04 EH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 9.04 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 153 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (153 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
153 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 2,450,650,569 was the winner.
02,450,650,569 ← winner4,294,967,295
2,450,650,569
Winning Nonce
1,844,316,726
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 (99.42%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.018095 BTC (0.58%)
From 4,331 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 — 153 Blocks Found
481.5564
Total BTC earned
$40,932,297
Total USD value
Aug 31, 2026 · 20:02 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1409 BTC ≈ $266,976
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 31, 2026 · 22:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1341 BTC ≈ $266,395
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 19:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1634 BTC ≈ $268,887
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 19:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1385 BTC ≈ $266,772
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 19:53 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1485 BTC ≈ $267,626
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 1, 2026 · 21:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1305 BTC ≈ $266,090
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 2, 2026 · 08:14 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1531 BTC ≈ $268,011
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 4, 2026 · 03:27 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1396 BTC ≈ $266,863
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 4, 2026 · 15:55 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1796 BTC ≈ $270,270
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 6, 2026 · 10:03 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1524 BTC ≈ $267,958
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 6, 2026 · 22:40 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1375 BTC ≈ $266,687
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 9, 2026 · 06:24 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1332 BTC ≈ $266,323
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 9, 2026 · 19:56 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1444 BTC ≈ $267,272
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 10, 2026 · 18:23 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1751 BTC ≈ $269,883
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 10, 2026 · 19:48 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1434 BTC ≈ $267,189
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 11, 2026 · 02:41 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1363 BTC ≈ $266,587
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 11, 2026 · 20:46 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1389 BTC ≈ $266,803
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 12, 2026 · 05:07 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1298 BTC ≈ $266,030
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 12, 2026 · 19:11 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1438 BTC ≈ $267,220
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 13, 2026 · 00:51 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1327 BTC ≈ $266,278
⏱ 0 days since previous find