Help Needed: Block Found but No BTC in Wallet

Hey everyone, I think I’m in the right spot? My Antminer s17e says it found a BTC block, but my wallet is empty. This happened a couple of days ago. I checked my address on a blockchain explorer and there's no sign of it. Can someone help a newbie understand what’s going on?

Sounds like your block got stale. Other miners or pools might've broadcasted theirs faster than yours. That's a common issue when solo-mining.

Right? Since you're mining in ck's solo pool, maybe check his thread over here. Could be you lost an orphan race... This pool has lost blocks before, so let's hope this isn’t another one!

@NotFuzzyWarm, I’m just starting out and found the pool via Google. Didn’t even look here before! My miner says it’s found a bunch of blocks too. Maybe I'm not reading the stats right... any suggestions for a more reliable solo mining pool?

What's your 'BestShare' value in the Miner Status tab? If it’s lower than Bitcoin Core's difficulty, you didn't actually mine a block. Might be a firmware issue too. Check the user status page for more info.

Here are some tips: 1) Is your hashrate showing right at the pool? 2) Check your failover pool settings. Is it sending you somewhere else? 3) Are you using stock firmware? 4) Remember to check for a virus, just in case!