Noticed from Cointelegraph, a solo miner mined Bitcoin block 912632 and almost earned $340K. It's quite surprising to me, though, but the solo miner successfully managed to mine an entire block and was fully rewarded. I don't know if the miner had a lot of hash power or if he is really lucky.
Do you think the solo miner is lucky, or does he have something special to increase the hash rate?
Yeah it rarely happens but that doesn't mean it can't happen. There have been many occasions where solo miners were able to get a block reward and it was even more reoccurring back when the general difficulty was way lower and block reward was bigger compared to now.
What bigger hash rates do is give you a larger computational power to solve the block header and get the rewards faster
than everyone elsecompared to other miners so technically speaking bigger hashrates increase your chances but don't really guarantee you'll get it solved first since it's based on randomization. So those solo miners we basically lucky guys.