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Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 20:25 UTC · 3d ago

BLOCK #972,373

🔗 00000000000000000001b11a31ed4c52cc805696ef8414906792fd671e197e47

Total Block Reward

3.1681 BTC

≈ $255,530 USD

Block Height

972,373

in the Bitcoin chain

Found By

Solo Pool

Solo mining pool

Difficulty

0.0T

network difficulty

Miner Hashrate

153.7 PH/s (est. from 10 blocks)

Large mining farm

Miner Luck

1 in 6,985

per-block odds

Winning Nonce

1,871,370,710

43.57% through search space

Transactions

3,726

1690.4 KB block

Fees Collected

0.0431 BTC

1.36% of reward

Block Interval

24 min

41.7% luck (🐢 slow)

🎓 Explain Like I'm 10

Bitcoin mining is a giant lottery. Every ~10 minutes, one miner wins 3.1681 Bitcoin — worth $255,530 today.

On Oct 20, 2026, this miner using a Large mining farm found block #972,373. They were mining alone — no big pool, just their own machines competing directly against the entire Bitcoin network (1073.37 EH/s total).

Winning solo means keeping 100% of the reward — no pool fees, no sharing. High risk, high reward.

🔬 Miner Identity Assessment

❓

❓ Unknown — First Block

Based on 1 block found from this address

🔍 First known block from this address. We can't estimate hashrate from a single find. This could be:

A solo miner who got incredibly lucky
A new pool we haven't seen before
Someone who mined one block and stopped

We'll know more if this address finds another block.

🎲 The Odds — Show Your Work

Miner's share of total Bitcoin hashrate 0.014317%

Miner: 153.7 PH/s vs Network: 1073.37 EH/s

Miner hashrate (Estimated from block frequency (10 blocks found))

153.7 PH/s

Bitcoin network hashrate

1073.37 EH/s

Chance of winning each block

1 in 6,985

Expected wait time at this hashrate

49 days

Expected blocks to find 1 solo block

6,985 blocks

Probability per block = miner_hashrate / network_hashrate
  = 153.7 PH/s / 1073.37 EH/s
  = 1 in 6,985

Expected wait = blocks_to_win × 10 minutes
  = 6,985 × 10 min = 1.6 months

⛏️ Miner Profile

🏗️

Anonymous Miner

bc1qzw8gr3rpr538ahlhycdgeaj634pkn8dvunqxr8

Pool

Solo Pool

Hashrate (24h)

153.7 PH/s (est. from 10 blocks)

Estimated from block frequency (10 blocks found)

Active workers

Solo blocks found (tracked)

1 block

🏗️

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 1,871,370,710 was the winner.

          01,871,370,710 ← winner4,294,967,295
        

43.57%

1,871,370,710

Winning Nonce

43.57%

Through range

2,423,596,585

Numbers after

💡 The miner also tried different extra nonce values — restarting from 0 each time the full 4.29B range was exhausted. A modern ~200 TH/s ASIC runs through all 4.29 billion nonces in about 0.02 ms — some 47,000 times every second.

💸 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 (98.64%)

Fixed reward, halves every 4 years

Fees — 0.043073 BTC (1.36%)

From 3,726 transactions in this block

3.125 BTC

Subsidy

0.0431 BTC

Tx Fees

1,156 sat

Avg fee/tx

⚡ 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 — 1 Block Found

#972,373THIS BLOCK

Oct 20, 2026 · 20:25 UTC · Solo Pool

3.1681 BTC ≈ $255,530

⏱ Block Timing & Luck

41.7%

Block Luck

😤 Unlucky

Time since prev block

24 min

Expected (10 min avg)

600 sec

Luck score

41.7% ↓

💡 Slow block — the network took longer than average. This miner kept hashing through a tough stretch. Luck > 100% means a faster-than-expected find.

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