A Bitcoin miner managed to earn around $18,000 by processing a single block.

According to Mempool.space, block 860749, which was mined on September 10, had 5,935 transactions. The Solo CK mining pool was awarded 3,169 bitcoins ($BTC ) worth around $182,505. According to data from Bitcoin transaction tracker YCharts, the successful miner used a hash rate of 629 petahashes when solving the block, which is just 0.098 percent of the total power that secures the blockchain and occurs at 644.91 exahashes per second (EH/s).

This rate requires miners to use more processing power, increases energy costs, and increases verification and transaction times, making it difficult for a single miner to successfully verify a block. Of the total 859,000 blocks produced since the launch of #Binance in 2009, a single miner has only been able to solve a block 290 times.

Large mining companies like Bit Digital, Riot Blockchain, and Marathon Digital typically validate most of the blocks, each with a significant amount of hash power. The Solo CK pool was responsible for solving 14 more blocks last year, earning 59.3 BTC for their efforts, currently worth $3.4 million.

A Solo CK miner also mined a block on August 30, earning him around $200,000. Another Solo CK miner mined block#853742on July 25.$BTC