A lucky miner managed to mine a Bitcoin block and earned $257,000 - the odds were 1 in 1,360,000

An unknown cryptocurrency miner suddenly earned approximately $257,000. He managed to mine a Bitcoin block and received a reward of 6.25 BTC.

The mining rig is connected to the CKPool pool. The computing power is 126 TH/s, i.e. approximately 0.000073% of the total network hashrate (over 174 EH/s). Two days ago, the miner was able to mine block 718,124. According to the pool administrator, the chances were 1 in 1,360,000.

The lucky person received 6.25 BTC as a block reward. He gave 0.125 BTC (2%) to the CKPool pool as a commission. At the exchange rate on January 11, 2022, the cost of the remaining 6,125 BTC was approximately $257,000. He can receive about $4,000 more from commissions for transactions in the created block.

Note that if you start mining Bitcoin today, then it will take an average of 26 years to create the first block, provided you use equipment with a computing power of 126 TH / s.

A source: @ckpooldev