Rented Hashrate Strikes Gold: Solo Miner Bags $200K Bitcoin Block Reward

A solo miner on CKPool has struck it big, solving a Bitcoin block using rented hashrate that peaked at an impressive 100 PH/s. This feat earned the miner an estimated $200,000 in rewards, with the cost of renting the computing power coming out to about $25,000 per week.

The reward for this particular block was approximately 3.125 BTC plus transaction fees, totaling around $200,000. This is a significant return on investment, assuming the timing worked favorably.

What makes this case interesting is that the miner didn't own the hardware - they rented hashrate from a cloud mining or hashrate marketplace and pointed it at CKPool's solo mining infrastructure. The hashrate showed 'extreme variability', a telltale sign of rented capacity being switched on and off.

This isn't even the most dramatic example of rented hashrate paying off on CKPool, as a miner reportedly rented just 1 PH/s for approximately $75 and managed to solve a block in February 2026. CKPool has tracked dozens of solo mining successes throughout 2025 and 2026.