Against All Odds: Solo Miner Claims $160,000 Bitcoin Block Reward – Here's What Happened
On August 18, an unexpected event in the Bitcoin mining space took everyone by surprise. A lone miner, not backed by massive computational power, claimed the full reward of 6.25 Bitcoin for solving block 803,821. In simp...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
In simple terms, the miner earned about $160,000, minus a 2% fee retained by the mining service. So, how did this happen, and why is it such big news?...
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