Just now read: A solo miner just spent 75 dollars on cloud hashrate and found block 938,092.

Full reward: 3.125 BTC, which is over 200,000 dollars at the current rate of 73,720 USD.
It's like trying to win with a slingshot against a rifle, and still winning.
The chances are absurdly small, but someone has to hit the jackpot.
The miner used 1 petahash per second via CKPool and needed about 119,000 Satoshis for that.
Mathematically, a 2,600-fold return on a lottery ticket with more transparent odds than real lotteries.
What’s interesting: this is happening more and more often.
In the past, solo mining was practically impossible without massive hardware investments.
Today, on-demand hashrate rental models allow anyone to try their luck and generate digital assets.
The cryptographic puzzle is reset every 10 minutes, and the competition is measured purely by computational power.
Statistically, it shows: 21 solo miners earned a total of 66 BTC last year, despite increased network difficulty.
That’s an increase of 17 percent compared to the previous year.
For anyone wondering if it’s still possible – yes, it is.
Just proven moments ago.