[Independent Bitcoin Miner Successfully Mines a Block After Nearly 40 Days, Earning Approximately $245,000 Reward] According to Deep Tide TechFlow on September 12, as reported by Bitcoin.com, an independent Bitcoin miner using Braiins Solo successfully mined block height 966351, earning the full block reward of 3.147 BTC, valued at approximately $245,000. This marks the first time in nearly 40 days that an independent miner has successfully mined a block on the Bitcoin network. The last occurrence was on August 2, when a miner using Solo CKPool earned a reward of 3.1569 BTC. Currently, the five major mining pools—Foundry, Antpool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, and Spiderpool—collectively control approximately 78.31% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate, making it relatively unlikely for independent miners to successfully mine a block.