Solo Bitcoin miners find 36 blocks in 2026 as small devices beat the odds

Key points

• Soloblocks.io logged 36 solo-style blocks from 11 February to 7 November 2026, paying 3.1268 BTC to 3.1968 BTC each.
• CKPool Solo miners found blocks 974893 and 974930 on 6 and 7 November 2026, seven hours apart, per mempool.space developer Mononaut.
• A 1.2 TH/s Bitaxe faces an expected wait of more than 15,000 years against a network running at 1,000 EH/s.

Solo Bitcoin miners have found 36 blocks in 2026, according to data from Soloblocks.io covering 11 February to 7 November. The rewards ranged from 3.1268 BTC to 3.1968 BTC each and came to about 113.149 BTC in total, including fees, which Bitcoin.com News values at roughly $8.5m.

The most recent finds came from CKPool Solo. Its operator said on X that a miner with just over half a petahash solved block 974893, and hours later another participant found block 974930, with mempool.space developer Mononaut noting the two came seven hours apart on 6 and 7 November 2026. Solo Satoshi separately reported that a customer's NerdQAxe++ Rev 6 found block 974238 on 5 November 2026, though it ran on the shared-reward Braiins FPPS pool and is not counted in the solo dataset.

Pool choices and odds

The archive shows a mix of setups. Ten finds are attributed to a category labelled Solo Pool, nine to CKPool Solo, and five each to Public Pool, Braiins Solo and Parasite Pool. Some entries were small farms running 153.7 PH/s or 540 PH/s rather than single desktop devices.

The odds remain steep. A 1.2 TH/s Bitaxe would expect one block roughly every 15,000 years against a network of 1,000 EH/s, while a 10 TH/s machine faces about 1,900 years. At 15 cents per kWh, a 6 TH/s Avalon Nano 3S costs about $184 a year in power against an expected $75 in rewards.

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