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On October 26, a mining machine running on the FutureBit Apollo Solo solution mined Bitcoin block 973,262, receiving a complete block reward of 3.154 BTC and collecting transaction fees from 2,477 transactions within that block. Multiple block explorers, including mempool.space, marked the discoverer of this block as "FutureBit Apollo Solo," with its coinbase transaction containing text mentioning FutureBit and Apollo.FutureBit stated on X that the Apollo device or Solo Node assembles block templates, allocates work, and submits complete blocks using its built-in solo pool. This is at least the fourth block attributed to FutureBit Apollo Solo, with the previous three being 867,760, 881,423, and 888,737. FutureBit designs Apollo hardware for users who wish to run a full Bitcoin node and mine independently at home, with the latest model, Apollo III, achieving a maximum hash rate of 18 TH/s in turbo mode and integrating a full node.Solo mining is often referred to as "lottery-style mining" due to the extremely low probability of winning relative to block rewards. Against the backdrop of the Bitcoin network's hash rate recently being around 1,070--1,087 EH/s, the expected time for home devices with 10--18 TH/s to mine a block is still measured in centuries at current difficulty levels, but verified successful cases of solo mining continue to appear on-chain. Additionally, the next day, another miner successfully mined a solo block through CKPool Solo.