Individual ETH miner hits jackpot with $540K block reward
An individual miner defied the odds and managed to collect 168 ETH from a solo mining pool this week worth 42 times the average block reward.
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An individual miner defied the odds and managed to collect 168 ETH from a solo mining pool this week worth 42 times the average block reward.
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