Woofun AI reports that an individual operator successfully mined the 957,382nd Bitcoin block using a Bitaxe device costing under $200. The miner received a 3.125 BTC reward, valued at approximately $200,000, despite possessing only 1 TH/s of hashrate.

Data indicates this marks the 12th independently mined Bitcoin block since 2026. Over the last 12 months, individual miners secured 24 blocks, a 41% year-on-year increase, accumulating 75.4 BTC in total rewards worth roughly $4.7 million.