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79 Two solo bitcoin miners hit rare $300,000 jackpots in the same week

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Shaurya Malwa @ CoinDesk 1 place · today 05:33 EDT

Two solo bitcoin miners hit rare $300,000 jackpots in the same week

Two independent miners mined full blocks and collected roughly 3.15 BTC each, an uncommon outcome in a network dominated by large pools.

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