The difficulty of mining digital gold has increased by nearly 4% following the latest recalculation.
A solo miner with a hashrate of 230 TH/s discovered block #943,411 in the Bitcoin network, earning 3.139 BTC (approximately $210,000), according to data from mempool.space.
CKPool administrator Kol Koliwas noted that the odds of generating a block with such computational power are about 1 in 28,000 per day.
Congratulations to miner bc1qtt7cr9cxykyp9g4hq47zf5lq9t97cxvq72lun3 with ~230TH for solving the 312th solo block at https://t.co/UWgBvLk5AE!
— Dr -ck (@ckpooldev) April 2, 2026
A miner of this size has a 1 in ~28k chance per day of solving a block.https://t.co/dx3lUuDRbl pic.twitter.com/uiDOzZdHts
One of the recent successful solo mining instances was the extraction of block #938,092 at the end of February, which yielded 3.125 BTC (around $196,650). In January, another solo miner earned 3.131 BTC ($289,191). However, such occurrences are rare overall.
In the past 12 months, solo miners have found only 20 blocks, earning a total of 62.96 BTC. On average, this translates to one "win" every 18.7 days, with the longest gap reaching 58 days.
Source: Bennet.
Mining Difficulty
Competition in the sector continues to rise. Bitcoin mining difficulty recently dropped by 7.7%—the steepest decline since February. On April 3, following another recalculation, the metric increased by 3.87% to 138.97 T.
Source: CloverPool.
The average hashrate (calculated using a seven-day moving average) continues to decline steadily after peaking in mid-October 2025.
Source: Glassnode.
A similar trend is observed in the hash price, which currently stands at $31.6 PH/s per day. Industry experts consider a break-even point for miners to be around $40 per PH/s per day.
Source: Hashrate Index.
As of this writing, Bitcoin is trading at approximately $66,800 (CoinGecko).
It’s worth noting that at the end of March, analysts from CoinShares concluded that up to 20% of miners are currently operating at a loss.