🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1306 Bitcoin — worth $261,143 today.
On Sep 27, 2026, this miner using a Large mining farm found block #968,809. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (936.76 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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🏗 Medium Pool
Based on 51 blocks found from this address
971.1 PH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 51 blocks over 350 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 971.1 PH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 971.1 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
0.018048%
Miner: 169.1 PH/s vs Network: 936.76 EH/s
Miner hashrate (Estimated from block frequency (51 blocks found))
169.1 PH/s
Bitcoin network hashrate
936.76 EH/s
Chance of winning each block
1 in 5,541
Expected wait time at this hashrate
39 days
Expected blocks to find 1 solo block
5,541 blocks
Probability per block = miner_hashrate / network_hashrate
= 169.1 PH/s / 936.76 EH/s
= 1 in 5,541
Expected wait = blocks_to_win × 10 minutes
= 5,541 × 10 min = 1.3 months
⛏️ Miner Profile
Hashrate (24h)
169.1 PH/s (est. from 51 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (51 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
51 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 1,725,607,717 was the winner.
01,725,607,717 ← winner4,294,967,295
1,725,607,717
Winning Nonce
2,569,359,578
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 (99.82%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.005607 BTC (0.18%)
From 6,589 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 — 51 Blocks Found
160.4210
Total BTC earned
$13,381,675
Total USD value
May 4, 2026 · 09:12 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1517 BTC ≈ $262,902
⏱ 1 days since previous find
May 8, 2026 · 09:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1384 BTC ≈ $261,793
⏱ 4 days since previous find
May 9, 2026 · 19:24 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1908 BTC ≈ $266,165
⏱ 1 days since previous find
May 10, 2026 · 14:35 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1301 BTC ≈ $261,097
⏱ 1 days since previous find
May 14, 2026 · 03:10 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1347 BTC ≈ $261,484
⏱ 4 days since previous find
May 15, 2026 · 16:01 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1576 BTC ≈ $263,391
⏱ 2 days since previous find
May 22, 2026 · 14:07 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1421 BTC ≈ $262,103
⏱ 7 days since previous find
Jun 8, 2026 · 22:48 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1459 BTC ≈ $262,421
⏱ 17 days since previous find
Jun 9, 2026 · 00:11 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1733 BTC ≈ $264,703
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Jun 17, 2026 · 05:49 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1390 BTC ≈ $261,840
⏱ 8 days since previous find
Jun 19, 2026 · 02:50 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1375 BTC ≈ $261,718
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Jun 24, 2026 · 04:14 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1350 BTC ≈ $261,507
⏱ 5 days since previous find
Jun 29, 2026 · 15:41 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1484 BTC ≈ $262,629
⏱ 5 days since previous find
Jul 24, 2026 · 09:29 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1441 BTC ≈ $262,265
⏱ 25 days since previous find
Jul 31, 2026 · 12:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1692 BTC ≈ $264,363
⏱ 7 days since previous find
Aug 2, 2026 · 07:06 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1373 BTC ≈ $261,703
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Aug 9, 2026 · 05:12 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1311 BTC ≈ $261,186
⏱ 7 days since previous find
Aug 10, 2026 · 09:00 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1342 BTC ≈ $261,444
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 25, 2026 · 13:52 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1614 BTC ≈ $263,713
⏱ 46 days since previous find
#968,809THIS BLOCK
Sep 27, 2026 · 08:31 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1306 BTC ≈ $261,143
⏱ 2 days since previous find
📊 At 169.1 PH/s hashrate, statistically expected to find a block every 38 days. Actual average: 7 days. 🍀 Running hot!