On the night of July 27, a solo miner independently mined block #907,283 in the Bitcoin network, receiving 3.154 BTC (~$372,773) as a reward and fees. CKpool administrator Con Kolivas noted that the participant was mining with equipment that had a hash rate of 49 TH/s. The probability of mining a block under such conditions is approximately 1 in 130,000 per day.
Despite the increase in mining difficulty to record levels, solo miners continue to occasionally mine blocks. On June 5, one of them mined block #899,826 and received 3.151 BTC ($330,386 at that time). On July 4, another user managed to earn 3.173 BTC ($348,948) for confirming block #903,883.
It is worth noting that a group of deputies from the National Assembly of France initiated a five-year pilot project to use excess electricity for Bitcoin mining.