How solo Bitcoin miners hit 22 blocks hit in 12 months as another hit the jackpot this week
Solo Bitcoin miners found 22 blocks in the last year, with one recently hitting the jackpot despite extremely low individual odds.Summary
Despite Bitcoin's massive network hashrate, solo miners continue to successfully mine blocks, as evidenced by 22 verified solo finds in the past 12 months, averaging one every 15.6 days. A recent win on January 13, 2026, awarded a miner nearly $300,000 in BTC.
The mathematical odds for a small miner (e.g., 6 TH/s) are astronomically low, suggesting a wait time exceeding 3,000 years per block. However, because mining is a Poisson process, and thousands of solo miners globally compete independently, these rare events occur regularly in aggregate.
Solo mining services like Solo CKPool and software like Public Pool have lowered the technical barrier to entry, allowing miners to compete for the entire block reward rather than splitting it. While the expected long-term return is the same as pool mining, solo mining persists due to the psychological appeal of winning the full jackpot, treating it like a lottery ticket, rather than for steady business income.
(Source：CryptoSlate)