3,755,035,689 guesses.

That's how many it took before a miner hashing on Braiins Solo hit block 970,904.

A miner gets 4,294,967,296 possible guesses per block header.

This one landed 87.43% of the way through.

When you're mining solo, you can run billions of guesses without finding a block. There's no guarantee the next one will be yours.

But you don't need every guess to win.

You need one.

On Sunday, that one brought in ∼$259,599 in block reward and fees, all to the miner who found the block.

Solo mining is a long shot. But someone has to hit it.

This time, it happened on Braiins Solo