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A Bitcoin miner has achieved the rare feat of processing a block on their own which netted a payday of around $180,000. Block 860749, mined on Sept. 10, contained 5,935 transactions with a reward of ‎3.169 Bitcoin (BTC) worth around $182,505 given to the mining pool Solo CK, according to Bitcoin block explorer Mempool.space. Despite its name, Solo CK is a mining pool combining the hashrate of multiple smaller miners — but it only distributes the reward to the one responsible for solving the block. In this case, the successful miner used 629 petahashes worth of hashrate when the block was solve…

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