On July 9, 2026, at roughly 03:30 UTC, a solo miner running a single Bitaxe Gamma device mined Bitcoin block #957382 and walked away with 3.1382 BTC, worth approximately $200,000 at the time. The hardware responsible for this windfall retails for around $150.
To put that return on investment in perspective: that’s roughly a 133,000% gain, achieved in about eight hours, on a device that draws between 15 and 21 watts of power and costs an estimated $1 to $2 per month to run.
## What actually happened
The Bitaxe Gamma is an open-source, Wi-Fi-enabled ASIC miner built around Bitmain’s BM1370 chip. It’s popular in hobbyist circles, the kind of device people set up on a bookshelf next to a router, not in an industrial warehouse next to thousands of identical machines.
This particular miner connected to Public Pool, a zero-fee solo mining pool that lets participants keep the entire block reward if they win. No pool cut, no shared payout. Winner takes all.