A Hobbyist's $150 Bitcoin Miner Just Won a $200,000 Block Reward

A hobbyist running a $150 Bitaxe Gamma solo miner found Bitcoin block 957,382 on July 9 and kept the full 3.1382 BTC reward, worth about $200,000, after beating odds estimated at once every 18,300 years. It's part of a broader jump in solo mining wins even as industrial ASIC farms dominate the network's hashrate.