Solo Block Wins Tracker
Every few weeks, somewhere in the world, a dashboard flashes and an individual out-flips a zetahash network. The wins make headlines, the headlines fade, and the record scatters across news cycles. This page is where it stops scattering: the documented solo wins of the 2024–2026 era, in one verified, continuously updated chronology — the hashrates, the odds they beat, what they won, and what the pattern says. Bookmark it; it grows.
This is the living record of documented solo mining wins in the 2024–2026 era: individual miners — from sub-terahash desk devices to rented petahash bursts — whose share cleared Bitcoin’s difficulty and collected the entire block reward. Each entry carries the block height, the approximate hashrate, the odds it beat, and the reward. The page updates with every new documented win and every yearly statistics refresh: the date stamp above tells you how fresh the record is.
Key takeaways
- The yearly baseline (latest count): ~21 individual solo miners, ~66 BTC collected, up ~17% year over year — solo winning is rare per ticket and regular in aggregate.
- The era’s defining shift is rented hashrate: 2026’s streak of marketplace-burst wins — including the “$75 block” — turned solo mining into something you can buy by the hour, not just own.
- The hardware span is the whole point: from ~1 TH/s legends to ~450 PH/s windows, the coinbase pays whoever’s share clears the bar, at any scale.
- Every entry is on-chain verifiable — block height, identifiable coinbase, credible corroboration — or it isn’t listed.
- Wins cluster; odds don’t improve. The chronology proves the mechanism, never a trend. The math stays memoryless.
The chronology of documented wins
| When | Block / case | Hashrate class | Odds beaten | Reward | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2024 | Block #826562 — the desk-miner legend | ~1 TH/s class | ~1-in-a-billion per day | Full block (6.25 BTC era ended Apr 2024; this era’s subsidy) | The win that made “can a Bitaxe do it” a factual yes |
| 2024~25 | Old-hardware wins incl. an S17-class rig | Tens of TH/s, obsolete gear | Lottery-grade | Incl. a ~$222K block | Proof the ladder’s “old Antminer lottery ticket” thesis pays — our guide |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Block #920,440 | ~6 TH/s home cluster (NerdQaxe-class) | ~1-in-3,000 per year of hashing | 3.141 BTC (~$347,000) | Verifiable on-chain; the winner reportedly paid off a home. The modern desk-class benchmark win |
| Jan 13 & 15, 2026 | Two rented-hashrate wins in one week | Marketplace bursts | Sub-1% windows | 3.125 BTC each | 🏷️ Rented — the streak that announced the era |
| Feb 11, 2026 | The 90-minute window | ~450 PH/s rented | ~0.45% (~1-in-222) | 3.125 BTC | 🏷️ Rented — the cleanest documented cost-per-probability case |
| Feb 25, 2026 | The “$75 block” | Small rented burst | Long-shot | 3.125 BTC (~$200,000+) | 🏷️ Rented — the era’s mainstream-headline win, covered across industry press |
| Jul 2, 2026 | The two-ASIC win | ~230 TH/s rented | ~1-in-31,000 per day | 3.125 BTC | 🏷️ Rented — proof the rental lottery pays at small scale too |
| 2025~26 | Mid-size owner wins incl. a ~70 TH/s block (#944306) | Single modern ASIC class | ~1-in-260 per year | 3.125 BTC | The quiet middle of the distribution — owner-operators with one good machine |
Tracker policy: entries require an on-chain-traceable height, an identifiable solo coinbase, and credible corroboration. 🏷️ marks rented-hashrate wins. New documented wins are added as they occur; this page’s updated date is the record’s freshness stamp.
What the pattern says
Three signals stand out of the noise. The distribution is barbell-shaped: headlines cluster at the extremes — sub-terahash miracles and giant rented bursts — while the quiet middle (owner-operators with one modern machine, 1-in-a-few-hundred yearly tickets) wins steadily and unremarked. The rental wave is structural, not a fad: marketplaces turned solo attempts into a purchasable product, multiplying total attempts industry-wide — which mechanically produces more absolute wins without improving anyone’s per-hash odds; the full economics live in our rental guide. And the aggregate is growing: ~66 BTC to ~21 winners in the latest yearly count, up ~17%, against a network that crossed a zetahash — the lottery’s prize pool and its player base are rising together, exactly as a healthy lottery’s should.
What the pattern never says: that you’re due. Every entry above was a memoryless draw, every cluster is what independence looks like, and the only property all winners share is that their hardware was actually pointed at solo infrastructure when its moment came — the mathematics of which lives in our variance guide, and the closest you’ve come lives in your best share.
Conclusion
Records scattered across news cycles read like miracles; gathered in one table, they read like what they are — a functioning mechanism paying out on schedule across every scale of participant. That’s the real service of a tracker: it converts anecdotes into a base rate. The base rate says solo wins are rare per ticket, regular in aggregate, growing yearly, and open to anyone whose share clears the bar. The rest is variance, patience, and whether your ticket is in the game when your number comes up.
The next entry is unwritten
Every win in this table shares one prerequisite: hashrate pointed at solo infrastructure, under the winner’s own address. SoloFury provides exactly that on five SHA-256 chains — non-custodial coinbase payouts, 1% fee, TLS everywhere, verifiable on-chain block history — from Bitcoin’s lightning strikes to chains where the rain is regular.
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How often do solo miners actually win Bitcoin blocks?
More often than intuition suggests: the most recent yearly count documented roughly 21 individual solo miners collecting about 66 BTC in rewards — up around 17% from the year before. That's better than a win a month industry-wide, spanning everything from sub-terahash home devices to large rented bursts. Individually improbable, collectively regular: exactly what the Poisson math predicts across thousands of participants.
What is the smallest hashrate ever to win a solo Bitcoin block?
The documented legends sit in the terahash-and-under class: block #826562 (January 2024) was famously solo-mined by a device in the ~1 TH/s Bitaxe class against roughly 1-in-a-billion-per-day odds, and old S17-class hardware has taken six-figure blocks. These wins are why 'can a small miner really win' has a factual answer: rarely, and demonstrably.
Are rented-hashrate wins 'real' solo wins?
Yes — the renter chose the pool, supplied the wallet, bought the probability, and collected the entire reward; the hashes' physical origin doesn't change the solo structure. 2026 made this the defining trend: multiple documented wins from rented bursts, including a ~0.45% window that hit and the famous case of roughly $75 of rentals returning a block worth over $200,000. We tag them separately in the chronology for clarity.
How do you verify the wins listed here?
Three requirements per entry: a specific block height traceable on-chain; the coinbase paying an identifiable miner (not a large pool's aggregate address); and corroboration from credible reporting or the community trackers the industry press itself cites. Wins that circulate without a verifiable height stay out until they earn one — a tracker is only as good as its worst entry.
Does a cluster of wins mean odds are improving?
No — clusters are what independent random events look like. More attempts (especially the rental wave) produce more wins in absolute terms, but each ticket's odds remain hashrate over difficulty, and difficulty keeps climbing. Read the chronology as proof the mechanism pays, never as a trend you can ride: variance clusters, and the math stays memoryless.
Do solo wins happen on chains other than Bitcoin?
Constantly — and far more often, by design. On smaller SHA-256 chains, modest hardware expects blocks on human timescales (days to months), so wins there are routine rather than newsworthy; that's the entire ladder thesis. This tracker focuses on Bitcoin because BTC wins against ~1-in-hundreds-of-millions odds are the documented lightning strikes; the ladder's regular rain has its own pages.
What do the winners have in common?
Strikingly little in hardware — the list spans 1 TH/s desk devices, old repurposed rigs, mid-size home machines, and giant rented bursts — and one thing in structure: every winner was actually pointing at solo infrastructure with their own address when their share cleared the bar. The only universal qualification is presence. The lottery cannot pay a ticket that was never bought.
How can I submit or flag a win for this tracker?
Reach us with the block height and any public reporting — the height is the non-negotiable part, since verification starts and ends on-chain. We add entries that pass the three-point check, correct any that fail it on review, and timestamp every update. A living record earns trust by being auditable, and we'd rather list fewer wins than a single unverifiable one.