Svmuu News: At approximately 03:30 on July 9, an independent home miner used a handheld Bitaxe device via Public Pool to mine block 957382 on the Bitcoin blockchain,earning the full block reward of 3.1382 BTC, consisting of a 3.125 BTC block subsidy and approximately 0.0132 BTC in transaction fees, worth about $200,000 at the time.The device had an average hash rate of 995.2 GH/s and submitted the winning share after running for about 8 hours.Bitaxe is an open-source single-chip Bitcoin miner based on the Bitmain BM1370 chip. The Gamma series has a default hash rate of approximately 1.0 to 1.3 TH/s, power consumption of 15 to 21 watts, and typically retails for $60 to $150.(Bitcoin.com News).