A home miner running a $300 consumer device found Bitcoin block 951771 on May 30, 2026, at 4:27 PM ET — collecting a 3.1404 BTC reward worth roughly $232,000 at the time.
The winning machine was a Canaan Avalon Nano 3S, a compact unit that draws 140 watts, runs at 33–40 decibels, and hashes at 6.68 TH/s. It retails for $250–$300 and is marketed for home use. The block was found through Braiins Solo, a pool that lets miners keep the full reward if they find one, with the payout landing at coinbase address bc1qdaqf9ynzwtzjtv5j8h47rfen3vwr7d85hxy8vn.
The math is stark. At 6.68 TH/s against a network hashrate of roughly 1,000 EH/s, the probability of finding any given block works out to about 1 in 148,904,370. At 144 blocks per day, the expected wait for a single win runs approximately 2,831 years. The reward itself broke down to 3.125 BTC in block subsidy plus 0.0154 BTC in transaction fees, at a bitcoin price of roughly $73,800.
Pool data credited the single Nano 3S worker at 6.68 TH/s as the machine that found the block, even though the miner reportedly ran a small fleet — two Avalon Mini 3s and 12 Nano 3S units totaling about 147 TH/s. At fleet level the odds narrow to roughly 1 in 6.7 million per block, but one machine got the credit.
Solo home mining wins at this scale are rare but not unheard of. Roughly 20 to 24 occurred in the prior 12 months. In April 2026, a 4.8 TH/s Nerdqaxe++ took a block worth around $224,000. Bitaxe and Futurebit Apollo machines have also landed solo blocks.
The win doesn't shift any balances. Industrial pools and large operations still control the majority of Bitcoin's hashrate and will continue to. What the block does illustrate is a property of the protocol itself: it does not weight outcomes by capital deployed. A space-heater-sized machine running in a spare room gets the same shot at every block as a warehouse full of ASICs — just at very different odds.
Block 951771 is verifiable at mempool.space.