🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1385 Bitcoin — worth $269,692 today.
On Sep 22, 2026, this miner using mining hardware found block #968,116. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (943.63 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 166 blocks found from this address
9.11 EH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 166 blocks over 165 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 9.11 EH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 9.11 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 166 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (166 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
166 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 3,982,779,424 was the winner.
03,982,779,424 ← winner4,294,967,295
3,982,779,424
Winning Nonce
312,187,871
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 (99.57%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.013471 BTC (0.43%)
From 4,159 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 — 166 Blocks Found
522.3649
Total BTC earned
$44,887,335
Total USD value
Sep 10, 2026 · 18:23 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1751 BTC ≈ $272,839
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 10, 2026 · 19:48 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1434 BTC ≈ $270,116
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 11, 2026 · 02:41 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1363 BTC ≈ $269,507
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 11, 2026 · 20:46 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1389 BTC ≈ $269,726
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 12, 2026 · 05:07 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1298 BTC ≈ $268,944
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 12, 2026 · 19:11 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1438 BTC ≈ $270,147
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 13, 2026 · 00:51 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1327 BTC ≈ $269,195
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 08:34 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1384 BTC ≈ $269,684
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 09:42 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1316 BTC ≈ $269,099
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 10:34 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1521 BTC ≈ $270,865
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 17:36 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1322 BTC ≈ $269,154
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 07:30 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1332 BTC ≈ $269,242
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 18:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1420 BTC ≈ $269,994
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 19:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1276 BTC ≈ $268,756
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 11:23 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1353 BTC ≈ $269,417
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 11:39 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1392 BTC ≈ $269,753
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 18, 2026 · 21:46 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1517 BTC ≈ $270,826
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 19, 2026 · 00:33 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1545 BTC ≈ $271,066
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 21, 2026 · 06:09 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1323 BTC ≈ $269,160
⏱ 2 days since previous find
#968,116THIS BLOCK
Sep 22, 2026 · 07:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1385 BTC ≈ $269,692
⏱ 1 days since previous find