Both miners get the mining reward of 6.25 BTC or $266,000. The probability of something like this happening is one in a billion.
With exceptional luck, two miners from the Solo CK mining pool each added a new block to the Bitcoin blockchain in the same week, against all odds.
On Monday, a small miner unraveled a block with a modest hashrate of 126 terahashes per second (TH/s). Bitcoin ( BTC ) mining expert and Bitcoin Mining Council member Hass McCook told Cointelegraph at the time there was a 1 in 1,400,000 chance of something like this happening.
However, according to a tweet from solo admin Con Kolivas on Thursday, another miner from the same pool was able to solve a block with a capacity of just 116 TH/s, even less hashrate than the first miner. That's probably just one to three mining rigs, depending on what equipment is used.
Kolivas added that the new miner joined the pool less than two days ago, "presumably in response to the other lucky miner who previously solved the block."
"They were astronomically lucky to solve a block alone during that time," he wrote.
"This is insane luck and a very unusual event."
"Insane luck" is perhaps even an understatement. McCook told Cointelegraph the likelihood of that happening is so slim he doesn't even know how to calculate it mathematically.
He said there was a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that such a small miner would succeed. The probability of two such successes a few days apart is therefore 1:1,000,000,000.
When the first miner successfully broke a block, McCook said, "To say that's very rare would be an understatement."
The miners, who probably only mined on one or two computers, will each receive 6.25 BTC ($266,000) as a reward.
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