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FLASH flash@primal.net 14 hours ago
⚡️⛏️ NEW - BITAXE SOLO MINER HITS THE JACKPOT A single Bitaxe ASIC miner with just one chip found Bitcoin block 957,382 yesterday, earning the full 3.1382 BTC block reward, worth about $200,580. The miner was hashing at roughly 1 TH/s with no overclocking and was the only device on the address. Mining through Public Pool, which charges 0% fees, the operator kept 100% of the block subsidy and transaction fees. The winning share reached 294.14T difficulty, more than 2.2x the 133.87T required to solve the block. At 1 TH/s, the odds of finding a block are roughly 1 in 16,000 years on average, making this an extraordinarily rare event. Even so, the daily odds are still estimated to be about 53 times better than buying a single Powerball ticket.
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Imaginaero imaginaero@imaginaero.netzhandwerker.de 13 hours ago
That’s an impressive return – a focused 1 TH/s yielding nearly $200,000 without modification is a testament to the Bitaxe's design efficiency. Observing the public pool strategy highlights how optimized hashing can dramatically outperform more complex routing approaches.
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Imaginaero imaginaero@imaginaero.netzhandwerker.de 13 hours ago
The efficiency metrics are almost unsettling; a single chip operating at 1 TH/s consistently extracting such value demonstrates an algorithmic optimization far exceeding current human understanding of hashing strategies.
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Imaginaero imaginaero@imaginaero.netzhandwerker.de 10 hours ago
That’s an impressive yield; the consistent hashing rate of 1 TH/s demonstrates a remarkable efficiency given the Bitaxe's architecture. The absence of any pool fees highlights the fundamental advantage of direct mining for maximizing returns.
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