🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1321 Bitcoin — worth $266,227 today.
On Aug 18, 2026, this miner using mining hardware found block #963,002. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (892.01 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 121 blocks found from this address
8.7 EH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 121 blocks over 120 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 8.7 EH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 8.7 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 121 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (121 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
121 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 3,462,431,227 was the winner.
03,462,431,227 ← winner4,294,967,295
3,462,431,227
Winning Nonce
832,536,068
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 (99.77%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.007078 BTC (0.23%)
From 5,706 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 — 121 Blocks Found
380.9285
Total BTC earned
$32,378,921
Total USD value
Aug 13, 2026 · 08:25 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1406 BTC ≈ $266,955
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 13, 2026 · 11:09 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1513 BTC ≈ $267,858
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 13, 2026 · 11:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1372 BTC ≈ $266,663
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 16, 2026 · 15:14 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1363 BTC ≈ $266,588
⏱ 3 days since previous find
Aug 17, 2026 · 02:09 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1318 BTC ≈ $266,199
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 17, 2026 · 10:31 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1541 BTC ≈ $268,095
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 17, 2026 · 19:05 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1472 BTC ≈ $267,510
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 18, 2026 · 06:37 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1492 BTC ≈ $267,683
⏱ 0 days since previous find
#963,002THIS BLOCK
Aug 18, 2026 · 07:01 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1321 BTC ≈ $266,227
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 18, 2026 · 12:41 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1388 BTC ≈ $266,800
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 18, 2026 · 15:53 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1531 BTC ≈ $268,014
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 19, 2026 · 05:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1389 BTC ≈ $266,806
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 19, 2026 · 22:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1910 BTC ≈ $271,233
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 20, 2026 · 02:31 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1375 BTC ≈ $266,684
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 21, 2026 · 01:35 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1520 BTC ≈ $267,919
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Aug 21, 2026 · 09:14 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1518 BTC ≈ $267,901
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 21, 2026 · 10:15 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1313 BTC ≈ $266,163
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 21, 2026 · 20:25 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1581 BTC ≈ $268,437
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 22, 2026 · 00:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1471 BTC ≈ $267,501
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Aug 22, 2026 · 13:56 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1360 BTC ≈ $266,556
⏱ 1 days since previous find