🎓 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 Sep 21, 2026, against enormous odds, they hit the jackpot — block #967,930 worth $255,192. The cost of renting that hashrate? A fraction of the reward.
🎲 The Odds — Show Your Work
Miner's share of total Bitcoin hashrate
0.421785%
Miner: 3.95 EH/s vs Network: 937.25 EH/s
Miner hashrate (Estimated from block frequency (151 blocks found))
3.95 EH/s
Bitcoin network hashrate
937.25 EH/s
Chance of winning each block
1 in 237
Expected wait time at this hashrate
2 days
Expected blocks to find 1 solo block
237 blocks
Probability per block = miner_hashrate / network_hashrate
= 3.95 EH/s / 937.25 EH/s
= 1 in 237
Expected wait = blocks_to_win × 10 minutes
= 237 × 10 min = 2 days
⛏️ Miner Profile
Hashrate (24h)
3.95 EH/s (est. from 151 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (151 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
151 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 1,178,506,001 was the winner.
01,178,506,001 ← winner4,294,967,295
1,178,506,001
Winning Nonce
3,116,461,294
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 (99.49%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.015976 BTC (0.51%)
From 4,000 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 — 151 Blocks Found
475.0054
Total BTC earned
$38,592,290
Total USD value
Sep 12, 2026 · 18:20 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1348 BTC ≈ $254,687
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 14, 2026 · 03:06 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1461 BTC ≈ $255,611
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 01:02 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1284 BTC ≈ $254,170
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 04:32 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1287 BTC ≈ $254,192
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 15:35 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1323 BTC ≈ $254,486
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 10:18 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1313 BTC ≈ $254,404
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 07:07 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1645 BTC ≈ $257,101
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 08:02 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1401 BTC ≈ $255,121
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 17:51 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1324 BTC ≈ $254,493
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 22:22 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1564 BTC ≈ $256,446
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 23:25 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1322 BTC ≈ $254,482
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 18, 2026 · 06:24 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1378 BTC ≈ $254,935
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 18, 2026 · 14:14 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1513 BTC ≈ $256,032
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 19, 2026 · 00:48 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1469 BTC ≈ $255,673
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 19, 2026 · 20:02 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1656 BTC ≈ $257,188
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 20, 2026 · 01:15 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1283 BTC ≈ $254,158
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 20, 2026 · 12:19 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1363 BTC ≈ $254,814
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 20, 2026 · 15:20 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1330 BTC ≈ $254,545
⏱ 0 days since previous find
#967,930THIS BLOCK
Sep 21, 2026 · 03:25 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1410 BTC ≈ $255,192
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 21, 2026 · 03:34 UTC · NiceHash EasyMining
3.1380 BTC ≈ $254,950
⏱ 0 days since previous find
📊 At 3.95 EH/s hashrate, statistically expected to find a block every 2 days. Actual average: 2 days. 😤 Unlucky so far.