Hey everyone,

This question might sound dumb, but as I am not so savvy with the technicals of how mining works, I just have one question:

As far as I know, blocks are mined based on "bruteforcing" the hash or something along those lines for the block headers... and the more mining power, the harder the hash gets (difficulty increases). When the first person gets the correct hash, or gets the luckiest so to speak, they get the reward and the block is confirmed. Today, as the hashrate increases, large mining pools get larger and the difficulty gets too competitive for solo miners, it becomes impossible for a solo miner to get any rewards (unless you join a pool of course)

If someone were to join the mempool completely solo, and attempt to mine a block (let's say they have insane, basically impossible luck in bruteforcing the hashes) is it technically possible for them from a theoretical standpoint to fully mine a block and get the 6 bitcoin reward all for himself?

If I completely have the wrong idea on how this works, let me know and ill delete the post.

 

Thanks, Alec