Block #937,218 was found by a solo home miner using open-source hardware — earning 3.143 BTC in a single block. Here's exactly how it happened.
Block #937,218 confirmed February 18, 2026 at 13:22 UTC — 3.143 BTC ($212,982) awarded to a solo miner via Public Pool. Source: mempool.space
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On February 18, 2026, at 13:22 UTC, a single home miner did what most consider statistically improbable: they found a valid Bitcoin block entirely alone and collected a reward of 3.143 BTC — worth $212,982 at confirmation.
The block, recorded at height #937,218, was mined through Public Pool — the fully open-source, zero-fee solo mining pool built on the same codebase that powers the Power Mining pool at pool.powermining.io. No industrial farm. No thousand-machine operation. A home miner, open-source ASIC hardware, and a valid proof-of-work hash that beat every other miner on the planet to that block.
The Bitcoin community noticed within minutes. The mempool.space explorer confirmed the Public Pool tag next to a freshly found block: 1.62 MB in size, 3,817 transactions, 100% health score, subsidy + fees totalling 3.143 BTC.
Open-source home miners from Power Mining — the same category of hardware responsible for multiple confirmed solo block wins in 2025–2026.
Every ten minutes, the Bitcoin network produces a new block. Miners worldwide race to find the valid cryptographic hash that closes it. The first miner to find a valid hash earns the block subsidy — currently 3.125 BTC after the 2024 halving — plus all transaction fees in that block.
Large commercial farms pool their hashrate and split rewards proportionally. The income is steady but fractional — a small miner in a large pool earns a few cents per day. Solo mining operates on a completely different principle. You point your machine at a solo pool — no partners, no fee splitting — and compete for the entire block reward independently. Either your machine finds the winning hash and you collect everything, or it doesn't and you collect nothing that round.
It is often called "lottery mining." The label is not wrong. But it undersells a key reality: every hash your machine generates is a mathematically valid attempt with a calculable probability. And as 2025 and 2026 have now proven repeatedly, home miners are winning.
Block #937,218 did not happen in isolation. It is the latest in a confirmed series of solo block finds by home miners using open-source ASIC hardware — the same devices Power Mining manufactures and ships to customers in 50+ countries.
Every single winner ran consumer-grade, open-source ASIC hardware. No privileged access. No industrial power contracts. A home internet connection and a compact machine drawing less electricity than a gaming PC — and in multiple confirmed cases, that was enough to find a block before every industrial farm on the planet.
Power Mining operates a dedicated zero-fee solo pool at pool.powermining.io, built directly on the Public Pool open-source project — the same infrastructure behind block #937,218. No registration required. No fees. Every satoshi of a block reward goes directly to the winning miner.
Connection details for any compatible miner:
Stratum TCP: stratum+tcp://pool.powermining.io:3333
Stratum TLS: stratum+tls://pool.powermining.io:4333
Username: <your BTC address>.<worker name> · Password: x
The pool currently has over 400 active devices — Bitaxe, NerdQaxe++, NerdOctaxe, and more — contributing hashrate around the clock. The community high scores board shows difficulty peaks above 10 TH/s, with NerdQaxe++ devices holding multiple top-ten records.
pool.powermining.io — the Power Mining community solo pool. Zero fees, open source, live device stats.
The honest case for solo mining is not a financial guarantee. Electricity costs are real. The odds per machine per block are long. Anyone framing this purely as an investment opportunity is being misleading, and we won't do that.
The actual case is something different — and for a growing number of people, far more compelling. When you run a Power Mining device connected to pool.powermining.io, you are running a fully validating node that participates directly in Bitcoin's consensus. You own the hardware outright. You validate your own blocks. You contribute hashrate to decentralizing a network that would otherwise trend toward industrial concentration.
The open-source hardware that Power Mining builds and ships is part of a broader movement: ensuring that Bitcoin mining remains accessible to individuals, not just corporations with megawatt power contracts. Every Bitaxe and NerdQaxe++ running at a home or office is a direct counter to that centralization.
And occasionally — as blocks #853,742, #920,440, #924,569, and now #937,218 confirm — that participation pays $213,000 to a home miner who kept their machine running.
Open-Source Hardware · Shipped to 50+ Countries
Every Power Mining device arrives ready to connect to the solo pool. Open-source hardware, open-source firmware, zero-fee pool included. Choose your hashrate — setup takes under 10 minutes.
