🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1488 Bitcoin — worth $243,963 today.
On Aug 19, 2026, this miner using a Large mining farm found block #963,137. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (889.94 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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⚡ Small Pool / Farm
Based on 2 blocks found from this address
73.2 PH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 2 blocks over 194 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 73.2 PH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 73.2 PH/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
Miner's share of total Bitcoin hashrate
0.004073%
Miner: 36.2 PH/s vs Network: 889.94 EH/s
Miner hashrate (Estimated from block frequency (2 blocks found))
36.2 PH/s
Bitcoin network hashrate
889.94 EH/s
Chance of winning each block
1 in 24,553
Expected wait time at this hashrate
171 days
Expected blocks to find 1 solo block
24,553 blocks
Probability per block = miner_hashrate / network_hashrate
= 36.2 PH/s / 889.94 EH/s
= 1 in 24,553
Expected wait = blocks_to_win × 10 minutes
= 24,553 × 10 min = 5.6 months
⛏️ Miner Profile
Hashrate (24h)
36.2 PH/s (est. from 2 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (2 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
2 blocks
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Large mining farm
Thousands of ASICs, industrial power
🎯 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 1,391,552,921 was the winner.
01,391,552,921 ← winner4,294,967,295
1,391,552,921
Winning Nonce
2,903,414,374
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 (99.24%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.023848 BTC (0.76%)
From 4,199 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 — 2 Blocks Found
194 days
Avg between finds
Feb 5, 2026 · 22:30 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.2610 BTC ≈ $252,650
#963,137THIS BLOCK
Aug 19, 2026 · 05:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1488 BTC ≈ $243,963
⏱ 194 days since previous find
📊 At 36.2 PH/s hashrate, statistically expected to find a block every 171 days. Actual average: 194 days. 😤 Unlucky so far.