Solo Miner With a Tiny 48 Terahash Strikes Bitcoin Block, Beats the Mining Pool Titans
A solo miner hit the jackpot on Saturday morning by solving block 907283, and data shows they did it with a modest hashrate of about 48.3 terahash per second (TH/s). Not bad for what’s essentially a one-person operation...
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