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44 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 12 Dec \ on: Lucky solo bitcoin miner beats 1-in-82-year odds to win $285,000 block reward bitcoin_Mining
This seems to happen way more than the odds should permit.
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51 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 12 Dec
Yes. I am starting to wonder about those odds.
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76 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 19h
These odds strain credulity or vice versa
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70 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 12 Dec
Looking at these numbers, it seems like we’re getting news of more than one block mined per month. That’s pretty big compared to the theoretical odds.
https://mempool.space/mining/pool/solock
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44 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 12 Dec
Yes. Seem to see news of solo mined blocks pretty often lately. Maybe just a lot more solo miners than I thought. When you think about it. If the odds were 1 in 82 years, you only need 1k solo miners at this level of hash to hit a solo block a month.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 12 Dec
Nice spotting. Solo CKs are probably already hitting the thousands. They’re rocking about 0.2% of the hashrate.
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