Two solo Bitcoin miners hit jackpot blocks on consecutive days

Two anonymous solo Bitcoin miners each found a block on back-to-back days in late October. Each walked away with the full 3.125 BTC block subsidy plus transaction fees. Two blocks, two days, two full payouts The first win came on October 26, 2026, with block #973,262. The miner behind it was running FutureBit Apollo Solo. That block paid out approximately 3.154 BTC. Most of that is the fixed 3.125 BTC subsidy, and transaction fees supplied the rest. The next day, October 27, a second solo miner landed block #973,413 through CKPool Solo. That reward came in at around 3.14 BTC. At prevailing prices, each payout works out to approximately $253,000 to $255,000. Both miners kept the entire reward, subsidy and fees included. That is the main difference between solo mining and pool mining. A pool gathers computing power from thousands of participants and splits each block reward among them in proportion to their contributions. A solo miner skips the sharing arrangement entirely. How rare is a solo block, really Bitcoin mining works like a global guessing contest. Machines race to find a number that satisfies the network’s rules. The first to succeed adds the next block and claims the rewa...