Miners with insignificant capacities continue to successfully find blocks in the bitcoin blockchain. After one of them was able to get the right solution on Tuesday, having only 126 TH/s of hashrate, another with even less capacity joined him today.
According to ckpool administrator Con Kolivas, the miner again belonged to his company's solo pool and had a hashrate of only 116 TH/s. This amount of capacity produces from one to three mining devices, depending on the model.
"I clarified, this is really a new miner. He joined less than 2 days ago, probably reacting to the luck of another block solver. This is an incredible luck and a very unusual event," Kolivas wrote.
A member of the Bitcoin Mining Council, Hass McCook, in a conversation with Cointelegraph, suggested that if in the first case the probability of finding the right solution was one in a million, then two consecutive such events should have a probability of at least one in a billion.
"To call this a very rare event would be an understatement," he said in response to a message about the first miner.
Each of the miners received a reward of 6.25 BTC ($266,000) for successfully adding blocks.
"It's a very rare event, but if enough solo miners mine for long enough, statistically someone should find a block," Kolivas continued. – This time he was incredibly lucky to find the block so soon, but it's all within the normal variance. Do not forget that all large hashrates are just a combination of thousands of small hashrates of miners, so blocks are always found by equipment of the same size. In large pools, block mining is simply attributed to a set of equipment, not to an individual device."