On February 24, a solo miner successfully mined block #938092 in the Bitcoin network, earning a reward of 3.125 BTC (approximately $196,650 at current rates).

💥BREAKING

A miner just found a 3.125 BTC block using on-demand hashrate.

• 1 PH/s rented
• 119k sats (~$75) spent
• Block 938092
• Worker: spiral
• Hashpower fees: 0
• Solo fee: 0.5% (CKPool open-source contribution)

Congratulations! Try Hashpower today. Link in bio🍀 pic.twitter.com/S1F4MfuHPN

— Braiins (@Braiins) February 24, 2026

According to Braiins, the user's total expenditure was just $75. The miner did not use personal equipment; instead, they spent 119,000 satoshis ($75) to rent 1 PH/s of hash power and paid a small fee.

The Braiins pool supports solo mining through the CKPool software. CKPool administrator Kol Kolivas noted that this block was the first mined under their partnership.

Congratulations to Braiins solo mining for solving their first solo block running ckpool! @Braiins https://t.co/AExl6NaSdl

— Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) February 24, 2026

According to aggregator Bennet, solo blocks are typically found once every 17.2 days, but the frequency is increasing. Over the past year, 21 solo miners successfully mined a block.

In total, they earned 66 BTC, marking a 17% increase in the number of solo blocks found compared to the previous year.

Source: Bennet.

As a reminder, on February 19, the mining difficulty of the first cryptocurrency increased by 14.73% to 144.4 T.