Two solo miners on the Bitcoin network found blocks about seven hours apart on the same day, according to data shared by Bitcoin developer Mononaut and confirmed by mempool records. Both blocks came through Solo CKPool. The combined reward, including fees, was about 6.276 BTC, or roughly $476,000 before the pool fee.
First block lands in the morning
The first block, number 974,893, was found at 07:51 Turkish time. It carried 3,955 transactions. The base subsidy was 3.125 BTC, and fees added about 0.0085 BTC. That brought the block reward to around 3.1335 BTC, worth a little over $237,000 at the time. That is the kind of result solo miners hope for but rarely see.
Second block follows hours later
The second block, number 974,930, arrived at 14:41 Turkish time, six hours and 50 minutes after the first. It included 1,964 transactions. Fees in that block were about 0.0177 BTC. With the base reward, the total came to roughly 3.1427 BTC, or about $239,000. The two finds together are unusual. Solo mining is a high-variance game, and most participants go long stretches without finding a block.
Why solo mining pays differently
In solo mining, the miner who finds a block keeps most of the reward instead of splitting it across a large pool. Solo CKPool charges a 2% fee for the infrastructure it provides, so the final payout to the two miners would be slightly lower than the headline figures. The exact amount depends on how the pool handles fees and payouts. Still, each miner kept the bulk of a full block reward, a rare outcome for solo hashing.
Bitcoin block rewards are set by protocol at 3.125 BTC per block after the 2024 halving. Transaction fees can add to that, but they vary with network demand. In this case, fees were modest compared with the base subsidy. The two blocks produced a combined 6.276 BTC before fees charged by the pool.
For solo miners, these events are closer to lottery wins than steady income. They can happen, and they did twice in one day. But they remain exceptions, not a reliable plan. The data shared by Mononaut and mempool records gives a clear snapshot of how two independent miners got a full block reward within hours of each other.
