🎓 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 Aug 15, 2026, against enormous odds, they hit the jackpot — block #962,619 worth $198,310. The cost of renting that hashrate? A fraction of the reward.
🎲 The Odds — Show Your Work
Miner's share of total Bitcoin hashrate
0.285022%
Miner: 2.56 EH/s vs Network: 896.74 EH/s
Miner hashrate (Estimated from block frequency (81 blocks found))
2.56 EH/s
Bitcoin network hashrate
896.74 EH/s
Chance of winning each block
1 in 351
Expected wait time at this hashrate
2 days
Expected blocks to find 1 solo block
351 blocks
Probability per block = miner_hashrate / network_hashrate
= 2.56 EH/s / 896.74 EH/s
= 1 in 351
Expected wait = blocks_to_win × 10 minutes
= 351 × 10 min = 2 days
⛏️ Miner Profile
Hashrate (24h)
2.56 EH/s (est. from 81 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (81 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
81 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 773,589,015 was the winner.
0773,589,015 ← winner4,294,967,295
773,589,015
Winning Nonce
3,521,378,280
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 (99.42%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.018186 BTC (0.58%)
From 4,118 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 — 81 Blocks Found
254.8523
Total BTC earned
$16,079,144
Total USD value
Jun 28, 2026 · 07:04 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1361 BTC ≈ $197,860
⏱ 5 days since previous find
Jun 29, 2026 · 20:11 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1770 BTC ≈ $200,443
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Jul 11, 2026 · 21:07 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1385 BTC ≈ $198,011
⏱ 12 days since previous find
Jul 27, 2026 · 19:13 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1690 BTC ≈ $199,940
⏱ 16 days since previous find
Jul 29, 2026 · 03:39 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1318 BTC ≈ $197,590
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Jul 29, 2026 · 22:12 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1358 BTC ≈ $197,843
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 3, 2026 · 13:19 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1532 BTC ≈ $198,943
⏱ 5 days since previous find
Aug 4, 2026 · 04:37 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1492 BTC ≈ $198,688
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 6, 2026 · 01:13 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1519 BTC ≈ $198,859
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Aug 9, 2026 · 14:37 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1481 BTC ≈ $198,621
⏱ 4 days since previous find
Aug 10, 2026 · 02:41 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1425 BTC ≈ $198,264
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 10, 2026 · 03:30 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1322 BTC ≈ $197,617
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 10, 2026 · 11:19 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1495 BTC ≈ $198,709
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 10, 2026 · 15:17 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1477 BTC ≈ $198,594
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 13, 2026 · 07:24 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1365 BTC ≈ $197,886
⏱ 3 days since previous find
Aug 14, 2026 · 14:14 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1347 BTC ≈ $197,777
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 14, 2026 · 21:41 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1487 BTC ≈ $198,658
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 14, 2026 · 23:43 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1401 BTC ≈ $198,112
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 15, 2026 · 07:07 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1532 BTC ≈ $198,944
⏱ 0 days since previous find
#962,619THIS BLOCK
Aug 15, 2026 · 19:27 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1432 BTC ≈ $198,310
⏱ 1 days since previous find
📊 At 2.56 EH/s hashrate, statistically expected to find a block every 2 days. Actual average: 3 days. 😤 Unlucky so far.