In an astonishing flip of occasions, two fortunate miners from the Solo CK mining pool have defied all odds and added a brand new block on the Bitcoin blockchain in the identical week.

On Monday, a tiny miner efficiently solved a block with a modest hash price capability of 126 terahashes per second (TH/s). Bitcoin mining professional and member of the Bitcoin Mining Council Hass McCook instructed Cointelegraph on the time that the chances of this taking place had been 1 in 1,400,000.

However in response to a Jan 13 tweet from Solo admin Con Kolivas, one other miner from the identical pool was in a position to resolve a block with a capability of solely 116 terahashes per second (TH/s) — even lower than the primary miner. That’s prone to be only one to 3 mining rigs, relying on the tools used.

Kolivas added that the brand new miner joined the pool lower than two days in the past, “presumably in response to the opposite fortunate block solver.”

“They have been astronomically fortunate in fixing a block solo in that point,” he wrote.

“That is insane luck at work, and a really uncommon occasion.”

‘Insane luck’ would possibly even be an understatement. McCook instructed Cointelegraph that the chances of this taking place are so unlikely, he’s uncertain of even mathematically calculate them.

He urged that the chances of such a small miner succeeding as soon as was one in 1,000,000, so two successes just some days aside could be no less than one in a billion.

Tiny Bitcoin miner defies large odds to unravel a sound block

When the primary miner efficiently solved a block, McCook mentioned that: “To say that is very uncommon is an understatement.”

Every of the miners, who might have been mining on only one or two machines, will take dwelling 6.25 Bitcoin (BTC) ($266,000) for his or her efforts.