Small miners really do win blocks.
This is the documented record: 33 solo-mined Bitcoin blocks found by small, mostly home-built miners since 2022 — on Solo CKPool, Public Pool, Braiins Solo, Parasite, Noderunners, FutureBit and OCEAN. Every entry is verified on the chain itself and linked to its source. The smallest winning device so far: a single 480 GH/s Bitaxe.
home miner — hashrate not publicly reported
The newest entry as of this page's last update: a home miner on zero-fee, open-source Public Pool took the full coinbase. The eighth block in Public Pool's history.
~1.2 PH/s (a shelf of a few modern machines, 1-day average)
Garage-plus scale rather than palm-sized — a few machines' worth of hashrate — but still one person against the whole network, and the whole reward went home.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 15 years — about 1 in 5,500 on any given day. Reported by SoloBlocks tracker · verify on-chain
hashrate not publicly reported
Parasite Pool's third block in five months — the finder-keeps-1-BTC, rest-shared model keeps producing winners.
Avalon Nano 3S — 6 TH/s, 140 W desktop miner (~$300)
A consumer Avalon Nano 3S — a quiet $300 desktop box — solved a block on Braiins Solo against press-reported per-block odds of about 149 million to one. The exact machine class thousands of hobbyists run at home.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 3,200 years — about 1 in 1,200,000 on any given day. Reported by Bitcoin.com News · verify on-chain
hashrate not publicly reported
Another ckpool solo solve in the same week the Avalon Nano hit — two independent wins three days apart.
home miner on an Umbrel node — hashrate not publicly reported
Public Pool's seventh block, found through a self-hosted Umbrel home node — the miner's own node built the block that paid them.
hashrate not publicly reported
Braiins Solo's second block, one day after a Public Pool win — solo blocks landed on different pools on consecutive days.
home miner — hashrate not publicly reported
April 2026 alone put five small-pool solo blocks on the chain; this Public Pool find was one of them.
NerdQAxe++ — 4.8 TH/s open-source desktop miner
Ten days after a NerdQAxe++ won on Noderunners, another board of the exact same open design solved a block on Parasite Pool. Two wins in one month for a 4.8 TH/s desktop device that expects one block in thousands of years.
Under Parasite Pool's split model the finder keeps 1 BTC and the remainder is shared across the pool's miners.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 3,800 years — about 1 in 1,400,000 on any given day. Reported by DTV Electronics solo-block timeline · verify on-chain
~70 TH/s home setup
A hobbyist running roughly 70 TH/s — one to two machines' worth — solved a full block through ckpool's European endpoint against reported 1-in-100,000 daily odds.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 270 years — about 1 in 99,000 on any given day. Reported by Bitcoin Magazine · verify on-chain
a single NerdQAxe++ — 4.8 TH/s
One 4.8 TH/s desktop unit, on its own, took the whole reward on the Noderunners solo pool. Its community-calculated odds were about 1 in 3,940 per year — and it won anyway.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 3,900 years — about 1 in 1,400,000 on any given day. Reported by Solo Satoshi · verify on-chain
NerdOctaxe — 9.6 TH/s (eight Bitaxe-class chips on one board)
An eight-chip open-source board solved a block on Public Pool, one day after a 230 TH/s hobbyist won on ckpool — two small-miner blocks in two days on two different pools.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 1,900 years — about 1 in 690,000 on any given day. Reported by DTV Electronics solo-block timeline · verify on-chain
~230 TH/s garage-scale setup
Roughly 1-in-28,000 odds on any given day, and the 312th solo block found through ckpool since 2014 — proof the wins keep coming, year after year.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 79 years — about 1 in 29,000 on any given day. Reported by CoinDesk · verify on-chain
under 10 TH/s (reported)
A sub-10 TH/s miner solved Parasite Pool's headline block. The finder kept 1 BTC under the pool's split model; the rest was shared across every miner on the pool.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 2,000 years — about 1 in 720,000 on any given day. Reported by DTV Electronics solo-block timeline · verify on-chain
hashrate not publicly reported
The first confirmed block on Braiins Solo — a third major pool operator's solo tier producing a winner within months of launch.
home miner on an Umbrel node — hashrate not publicly reported
An Umbrel-node home miner on Public Pool — found ten days before Parasite Pool's first headline block. Small pools were winning everywhere that February.
home miner — hashrate not publicly reported
A Public Pool solve three days before Christmas 2025 — the pool's fifth block.
~270 TH/s (about three older S19-class machines)
A setup the size of three ageing Antminers — the kind that heats a garage, not a warehouse — landed the full reward plus fees against daily odds the press put near 1-in-30,000.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 75 years — about 1 in 27,000 on any given day. Reported by Bitbo · verify on-chain
Bitaxe-class setup — reported ~5.4 TH/s
Another Bitaxe-family win in the record — a reported 5.4 TH/s of open-source silicon taking a block against the largest network in Bitcoin's history to that point.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 3,800 years — about 1 in 1,400,000 on any given day. Reported by DTV Electronics solo-block timeline · verify on-chain
NerdQAxe++ Rev 6 in a ~130 TH/s home stack
The winning hash came from a NerdQAxe++ Rev 6 inside a home stack of about 130 TH/s, mining on zero-fee Public Pool. The winner reportedly used the block to pay off their home.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 150 years — about 1 in 56,000 on any given day. Reported by Solo Satoshi · verify on-chain
Avalon Mini 3 — ~37 TH/s silent home miner
A living-room Avalon Mini 3 — the heater-quiet kind, not a farm machine — solved a block just two days after the first NerdQAxe++ win. Small-miner September.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 500 years — about 1 in 180,000 on any given day. Reported by DTV Electronics solo-block timeline · verify on-chain
NerdQAxe++ — 4.8 TH/s
The first block ever found by NerdQAxe++ hardware, hashing through OCEAN's DATUM. Because OCEAN is not a pure solo pool, the finder received a proportional payout rather than the whole coinbase — the silicon still did the thing.
Included for the hardware milestone; the payout followed OCEAN's reward model, not finders-keepers.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 3,900 years — about 1 in 1,400,000 on any given day. Reported by Solo Satoshi · verify on-chain
~6 TH/s desktop ASIC
About 0.0000007% of the network's hashrate — press put the per-block odds near 1 in 180 million — and the 3.17 BTC coinbase still landed on a 6 TH/s desktop machine.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 2,700 years — about 1 in 970,000 on any given day. Reported by Tom's Hardware · verify on-chain
Bitaxe Gamma — 1.2 TH/s (reported)
The third Bitaxe-family block, weeks after the second. March 2025 was the month the open-source palm miners stopped being a joke: three wins for the class in one spring.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 13,000 years — about 1 in 4,700,000 on any given day. Reported by Bitaxe Shop · verify on-chain
home miner — hashrate not publicly reported
Public Pool's early win, in the same March 2025 stretch as the Bitaxe cluster and Gamma blocks — the month small miners went on a run across pools.
FutureBit Apollo — all-in-one node-plus-miner
The third block from FutureBit's Apollo-only solo pool — every miner on it is a silent desktop node-miner combo.
cluster of six Bitaxes — ~3.3 TH/s combined
Six palm-sized boards on a shelf. The winning hash came from just one of them — a 480 GH/s Bitaxe Ultra — and the whole 3.15 BTC went to its owner's address.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 4,600 years — about 1 in 1,700,000 on any given day. Reported by Hedge With Crypto · verify on-chain
a single 480 GH/s Bitaxe
The smallest single device on this list: one 480 GH/s open-source Bitaxe — a third of a NerdQAxe, a millionth of the network — took a full block reward on its own.
The block's coinbase carries no pool tag; the win is documented by the Bitaxe community.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 32,000 years — about 1 in 12,000,000 on any given day. Reported by Solo Satoshi · verify on-chain
FutureBit Apollo — reported ~3 TH/s node-plus-miner
An Apollo desktop unit — the machine is also its own full node — took a block on FutureBit's Apollo-only solo pool. The chain's coinbase tag settles the pool attribution.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 4,900 years — about 1 in 1,800,000 on any given day. Reported by Bitcoin.com News · verify on-chain
FutureBit Apollo — all-in-one node-plus-miner
The first block on FutureBit's Apollo solo pool — proof that even a vendor's niche pool of desktop node-miners can land one.
~3 TH/s Bitaxe-class rig, 19 days into solo mining
The first famous Bitaxe-era block. Pool logs showed the address had started solo mining only 19 days earlier and reached ~3 TH/s the day before the win — 1-in-1.2-million daily odds, beaten in under three weeks.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 3,700 years — about 1 in 1,400,000 on any given day. Reported by No BS Bitcoin · verify on-chain
86 TH/s weekly average — only 8.3 TH/s online at the solve
The third solo block in two weeks that January. The miner averaged 86 TH/s over the week, but at the moment the block was solved only 8.3 TH/s was actually online. The lottery does not check how many tickets you meant to buy.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 42 years — about 1 in 15,000 on any given day. Reported by Bitcoin Magazine · verify on-chain
~120 TH/s — a single machine's worth
The block that started the modern legend. One home miner, about one machine of hashrate, 1-in-10,000 odds per day — and a full 6.35 BTC coinbase. Two more solo blocks followed within two weeks.
At that day's difficulty, a rig this size expected one block every 28 years — about 1 in 10,000 on any given day. Reported by Bitcoin Magazine · verify on-chain
Each odds line is computed the same way: the network difficulty at that block height, times 2³², divided by the miner's reported hashrate — the expected time between blocks for that rig. It is the identical math on every pool, and it is exactly what our odds calculator runs for your own hardware.
Read it honestly, both ways. For every name on this list, thousands of miners have hashed for years without a block — that is what 1-in-30,000-a-day means, and why solo mining is a lottery, not a paycheck: nothing here is income. The flip side is on this page: the draw is real, the wins keep happening every year, and the block does not care whether the winning ticket came from a warehouse or a palm-sized board on a bookshelf. The plain warnings are in risk disclosure.
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