Solo Home Miner wins a $232K Bitcoin block with 149 million-to-1 odds on a $300 machine.
Key receivers
A solo home miner won Bitcoin block 951771 on May 30, 2026, at 4:27:23 pm Eastern Time (ET) using Canaan Avalon Nano 3S at 6.68 TH/s.The 3.1404 BTC block prize paid out through Brains Solo pool was approximately $232,000.Between 20 and 24 solo home mining wins have occurred in the past 12 months, with a 1 in 149 million chance per block.
One block, one machine
The block was mined at 00:27 UTC via Braiins Solo, a pool designed for solo miners who want to keep the full reward if they find a block. The winning machine drew 140 watts of power at 6.68 teraseconds per second (TH/s). For context, the Bitcoin Network implications Hashrate At the time it was around 1,000 exahashes per second (EH/s) or 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s).
Canaan's Avalon Nano 3S retails for around $250 to $300. It's 33 to 40 decibels quiet and connects via Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Canaan is marketed for home use, and doubles as a heater in cold rooms.
The math behind the win
The chance of this particular machine finding any block is approximately 6.72 in a billion, or one in 148,904,370. At 144 blocks mined per day, the daily chance of such a device was about one in 1.03 million. The expected waiting time to find a single block running continuously would be around 2,831 years.
The block price reached 3.1404 BTCMade from 3.125 BTC Subsidy and roughly 0.0154 BTC or $1,137 in transaction fees. At a bitcoin price of $73,800 at the time, the payout rested between $230,000 and $232,000. The coinbase transaction was paid to the address bc1qdaqf9ynzwtzjtv5j8h47rfen3vwr7d85hxy8vn.
Small fleet, one winner
The miner operated a small fleet including two Avalon Mini 3 units and 12 Avalon Nano 3S units with a total capacity of 147 TH/s.
At ship level, the odds improve to about one in 6.7 million, expected to win every 127 years. But the pool data and the block announcement say that a single Nano 3S worker got a machine at 6.68 TH/s at block 951771.
Not the first, still rare
Single home mining winners on this scale are rare. Approximately two dozen blocks have been discovered in the past 12 months. In April 2026, a 4.8 TH/s Nerdqaxe++ machine won a block worth around $224,000. Earlier in 2025 and 2026, Bitaxe and Futurebit Apollo miners also found blocks on their own.
Several solo and hybrid mining services cater to home miners and hobbyists, including Futurebit Solo, CKPool Solo, Public Pool, Brains Solo, Parasite, and Nicehash Easymining. Solo, or home-based mining, has experienced a renewed wave of interest and participation.
Why is it important?
Large mining pools and industrial operations control the majority of Bitcoin hashpower. A single home miner on a consumer device doesn't change that balance, but it does show that the protocol itself doesn't weigh the results by the amount of investment. The win drew widespread attention on Reddit, X and mining forums, with hobbyists calling it proof that solo bitcoin mining still makes sense as a long shot.
