Independent home miner mines Bitcoin block with $150 device, earning $200,000 reward

According to Odaily, around 03:30 on July 9, an independent home miner used a handheld Bitaxe device via Public Pool to mine Bitcoin block 957,382, securing the full block reward of 3.1382 BTC, including a 3.125 BTC block subsidy and approximately 0.0132 BTC in transaction fees, valued at about $200,000 at the time. The device operated at an average hashrate of 995.2 GH/s and submitted the winning share after running for roughly 8 hours. The Bitaxe is an open-source, single-chip Bitcoin miner based on Bitmain's BM1370 chip. The Gamma series has a default hashrate of approximately 1.0 to 1.3 TH/s, with a power consumption of 15 to 21 watts, and typically sells for between $60 and $150. (Bitcoin.com News).