A solo Bitcoin miner took home a reward of 3.15689830 BTC worth $200,000 or approximately Rp3.2 billion on Monday (3/8/2026) at 02:11 UTC. The owner of the wallet address bc1qdyqjq9qccp34pyv3kxmsrkn7p0amnsqqy8kdeq solved block 960,804 on the Bitcoin network alone, without having to split the profits with other miners in a conventional pool.
The $200,000 pocketed by this miner did not come from a single source. The detailed breakdown includes a basic block subsidy of 3.125 BTC, plus accumulated transaction fees of 0.032 BTC. This extra revenue flowed from 4,243 user transactions processed, verified, and included in block 960,804.
Winning with 0.011 Percent Rented Power
The computing power behind the discovery of block 960,804 revealed a specific operational footprint. Network reports noted that the miner’s hashrate fluctuated throughout the process, with a peak briefly touching 100 petahashes per second (PH/s). This highly volatile hashrate pattern is a strong indicator that they relied on rented computing power, rather than running physical machines at their own location.
A peak hashrate of 100 PH/s might seem large for an individual operation, but this share shrinks drastically when compared against the entire network’s capacity. Right at the moment block 960,804 was solved, the global Bitcoin network’s total hashrate stood at 924 exahashes per second (EH/s). This means the solo miner only contributed about 0.011% of the overall global computing power, a tiny fraction of capacity to guess the algorithm among corporate mining entities.
A Computational Lottery Amid Coldcard Panic
The technical path connecting this miner to the main network is Solo CKPool, a specialized mining pool service designed to cater to solo operations. The service, managed by a developer known by the pseudonym Dr -ck, continues to be a bridge for independent miners. Monday’s reward sets a new record as the 317th block solved through the Solo CKPool infrastructure.
The timing of this block solution occurred against a paradoxical backdrop. The service operator, Dr -ck, highlighted that the block discovery emerged right in the middle of a wave of Coldcard hardware wallet exploits that have been circulating recently. While some crypto owners were busy securing their assets from security vulnerabilities, one wallet owner (bc1qdyqjq9qccp34pyv3kxmsrkn7p0amnsqqy8kdeq) landed a massive payout worth billions of rupiah through a single remote rented computing bet.
As reported by Decrypt.
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Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only, not financial advice. Cryptocurrency assets are highly volatile and carry significant risk. Always do your own research (DYOR) and never invest more than you can afford to lose.
