A lone Bitcoin miner using CKpool achieved a remarkable feat on June 5th, securing block 899,826 and earning a reward of $330,386. This win came amidst record-high network difficulty in the Bitcoin ecosystem, making it a truly extraordinary achievement. The odds were stacked against this individual miner – with the network’s difficulty reaching an all-time high of 126.98 trillion and the hashrate hovering around 800 exahashes per second, achieving a block was statistically improbable. The miner’s success is attributed to strategic efforts, including possibly renting additional computational power to boost their hashrate to an estimated 259 PH/s during the attempt. This approach, combining own hardware with temporary rented hashpower, offers solo miners a slim chance of competition against large mining farms and pools.