🎓 Explain Like I'm 10
Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1341 Bitcoin — worth $261,437 today.
On Sep 27, 2026, this miner using mining hardware found block #968,850. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (939.52 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 172 blocks found from this address
9.07 EH/s
Implied Hashrate
How we estimate: Each Bitcoin block found requires approximately difficulty × 2³² hashes.
With 172 blocks over 171 days,
the implied sustained hashrate is 9.07 EH/s.
⚠️ Not a solo miner. At 9.07 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 172 blocks)
Estimated from block frequency (172 blocks found)
Solo blocks found (tracked)
172 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 1,079,328,946 was the winner.
01,079,328,946 ← winner4,294,967,295
1,079,328,946
Winning Nonce
3,215,638,349
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 (99.71%)
Fixed reward, halves every 4 years
Fees — 0.009130 BTC (0.29%)
From 6,309 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 — 172 Blocks Found
541.2429
Total BTC earned
$45,148,314
Total USD value
Sep 13, 2026 · 00:51 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1327 BTC ≈ $261,316
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 08:34 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1384 BTC ≈ $261,791
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 09:42 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1316 BTC ≈ $261,223
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 10:34 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1521 BTC ≈ $262,938
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 15, 2026 · 17:36 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1322 BTC ≈ $261,277
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 07:30 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1332 BTC ≈ $261,362
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 18:43 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1420 BTC ≈ $262,092
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 16, 2026 · 19:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1276 BTC ≈ $260,890
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 11:23 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1353 BTC ≈ $261,532
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 17, 2026 · 11:39 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1392 BTC ≈ $261,858
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 18, 2026 · 21:46 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1517 BTC ≈ $262,899
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 19, 2026 · 00:33 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1545 BTC ≈ $263,133
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 21, 2026 · 06:09 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1323 BTC ≈ $261,282
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 22, 2026 · 07:22 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1385 BTC ≈ $261,799
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 22, 2026 · 13:59 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1932 BTC ≈ $266,362
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 22, 2026 · 23:07 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1352 BTC ≈ $261,524
⏱ 0 days since previous find
Sep 24, 2026 · 08:38 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1388 BTC ≈ $261,825
⏱ 1 days since previous find
Sep 26, 2026 · 01:20 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1364 BTC ≈ $261,628
⏱ 2 days since previous find
Sep 27, 2026 · 07:49 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1403 BTC ≈ $261,951
⏱ 1 days since previous find
#968,850THIS BLOCK
Sep 27, 2026 · 14:30 UTC · Self-Hosted Solo
3.1341 BTC ≈ $261,437
⏱ 0 days since previous find