How a solo block works, and why petahash is still a lottery
2026-08-10
Sometimes a solo miner finds a block on modest power. That is luck, not a plan. What the stats show — and what they do not.
Bitcoin finds a block about every ten minutes for the whole network. Your hash is a tiny slice. Odds rise with power and time. They never become a promise.
Public solo stratums such as CKPool list other people's lucky blocks in the open. Small setups sometimes hit. That is not an average. You cannot turn someone else's win into your payout.
When a headline says “found a block at N PH/s”, that is the power at the share, not a guaranteed income. The same plan next week can end at zero.
On Mine-Grid, solo is just another stratum target. We send hash where you point it. Who closed a block today belongs on an explorer and the solo pool stats — not our calculator.