Two anonymous solo miners each found a Bitcoin block on consecutive days, October 26 and 27, and kept the full reward. Solo wins remain rare: only 132 solo blocks have been tracked since 2016.
Two anonymous solo miners each found a Bitcoin block on back-to-back days in late October. Each kept the full 3.125 BTC block subsidy plus transaction fees, with no pool taking a cut.
Two blocks, two full payouts
The first win came on October 26, 2026, with block #973,262, found by a miner running FutureBit Apollo Solo. It paid approximately 3.154 BTC. Transaction fees supplied what the fixed subsidy did not cover.
On October 27, a second solo miner landed block #973,413 through CKPool Solo, for around 3.14 BTC. At prevailing prices, each payout works out to approximately $253,000 to $255,000.
A mining pool gathers computing power from thousands of participants and splits each block reward in proportion to their contributions. A solo miner skips that arrangement and keeps everything.
A 16.2 TH/s miner beats the odds
Bitcoin.com News reported that Solo CKPool claimed block 973413 reportedly on behalf of a miner operating with 16.2 TH/s. With the network at approximately 1,070 exahash per second (EH/s), the outlet put that miner's daily success probability at roughly 0.0002%, or an expected interval of nearly 1,200 years between blocks.
The Apollo find was also uncommon. Mining logs indicate it was only the fourth Apollo solo block ever documented, and the first since March 2025.
Solo blocks stay scarce
Larger pools such as Foundry USA and AntPool dominate block production because more computing power means more guesses per second. Since 2016, only 132 solo blocks have been tracked, adding up to 969 BTC in total winnings.
In the 12 months leading up to January 2026, the tally was just 22 solo blocks. Across all setups, the average works out to roughly one solo block every 14 to 16 days.
Crypto Briefing said the two blocks did not move Bitcoin's price or meaningfully change hashrate dynamics.
Sources: Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin News
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