bitaxe

An independent home miner mined Bitcoin block 957382 using a portable Bitaxe device through Public Pool, receiving a total block reward of 3.1382 BTC, which includes a block subsidy of 3.125 BTC and approximately 0.0132 BTC in transaction fees, valued at around $200,000 at the time.The device has an average hash rate of 995.2 GH/s and submitted the winning share after running for about 8 hours. Bitaxe is an open-source single-chip Bitcoin miner based on the Bitmain BM1370 chip, with the Gamma series having a default hash rate of about 1 to 1.3 TH/s, a power consumption of 15 to 21 watts, and typically sells for $60 to $150.

According to Bitcoin News, a Bitaxe ASIC miner equipped with a single chip mined Bitcoin block number 957,382, earning the full block reward of 3.1382 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $200,580. This miner has a hash rate of about 1 TH/s and is the only device at that address.Since mining was done through a public mining pool (with a fee of 0%), the miner's owner retained 100% of the block reward and transaction fees. The mining difficulty of this block reached 294.14T, which is more than 2.2 times the required difficulty of 133.87T. With a hash rate of 1 TH/s, the average probability of mining a block is about once every 16,000 years, making this an extremely rare event.