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In an astonishing turn of events, two lucky miners from the Solo CK mining pool have defied all odds and added a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain in the same week. <\/p>\n
On Monday, a tiny miner successfully solved a block<\/a> with a modest hash rate capacity of 126 terahashes per second (TH\/s). Bitcoin mining expert and member of the Bitcoin Mining Council Hass McCook told Cointelegraph at the time that the odds of this happening were 1 in 1,400,000.<\/p>\n But according to a Jan 13 tweet from Solo admin Con Kolivas, another miner from the same pool was able to solve a block<\/a> with a capacity of only 116 terahashes per second (TH\/s) \u2014 even less than the first miner. That\u2019s likely to be just one to three mining rigs, depending on the equipment used. <\/p>\n Kolivas added that the new miner joined the pool less than two days ago, \u201cpresumably in response to the other lucky block solver.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey’ve been astronomically lucky in solving a block solo in that time,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is insane luck at work, and a very unusual event.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n ‘Insane luck’ might even be an understatement. McCook told Cointelegraph that the odds of this happening are so unlikely, he is unsure of how to even mathematically calculate them. <\/p>\n He suggested that the odds of such a small miner succeeding once was one in a million, so two successes just a few days apart would be at least one in a billion.<\/p>\n