Solo Miner Captures 3.141 BTC Block on Umbrel

A solo Bitcoin miner operating a solo pool on an Umbrel server mined block 920,440 at 7:32 p.m. UTC, earning 3.141 BTC (3.125 BTC base reward plus ~0.016 BTC in fees), roughly $347,455. Umbrel celebrated the win as “pure self-sovereignty,” noting the miner ran both the pool and validation stack without middlemen. The result is notable because solo successes are rare amid Bitcoin’s record-high difficulty and dominance by industrial exahash operations, yet it shows small participants can still occasionally capture full block rewards. Observers say such wins and the rising use of compact, often open-source miners (priced roughly $155–$600, with some reports of $300 setups) bolster decentralization and offer an alternative to closed-source, warehouse-scale ASIC farms. The payout and publicity may incentivize more independent miners to maintain solo or small-pool operations despite long odds.