The coin anyone can mine.
PCoin (PCN) is its own blockchain — not a token. It keeps Bitcoin's economics and swaps the proof-of-work for RandomX, the CPU-fair algorithm. Ordinary processors are the best miners. If you own a phone or a laptop, you can mine PCN.
Money creation, for ordinary people
Bitcoin proved that neutral digital money works — but mining it now belongs to industrial ASIC farms. PCoin restarts that experiment with one change: the hardware you already own is the mining hardware. No ASIC farms, no premine, no investors.
Fair by physics
RandomX runs randomly generated programs over a large memory working set. That kills the ASIC advantage and mostly neutralizes GPUs — a general-purpose CPU is the best miner. Fairness is enforced by the algorithm itself, not by a promise.
Proven, boring economics
Bitcoin's monetary rules, untouched: 21,000,000 coins, 50 PCN subsidy halving every 210,000 blocks, 10-minute blocks. No tail emission, no founder's cut, no governance knobs. Boring is the point.
Community from zero
Every node validates every block; every node is equal. There is no foundation and no privileged key. The founder's role dissolves as the network grows — the goal is a chain nobody controls, including the person who started it.
The best mining chip is the one in your pocket
Most proof-of-work coins are mined by special-purpose chips (ASICs) that are millions of times faster than your computer. PCoin uses RandomX — the algorithm pioneered by Monero — which is deliberately built so that an ordinary CPU is the most efficient miner there is.
PCoin runs RandomX with the fixed key PCoin/RandomX/v1 and verifies blocks in light mode with a 256 MB cache — small enough to fit comfortably on a modern phone. Block IDs stay double-SHA256; only the proof-of-work check uses RandomX.
Difficulty retargets on every block (LWMA, live since height 2800) to hold a 10-minute average against whatever hashrate the community's CPUs provide. It has risen by orders of magnitude since launch, so a single phone now contributes to a shared effort rather than finding blocks alone — what a phone earns tracks its share of total hashrate, not a fixed rate.
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No ASICs. Random program execution over big memory removes the efficiency edge special hardware depends on.
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No extra software needed — but yours works too. The miner is built into the node, so nothing else is required. If you already run mining software, SRBMiner-Multi mines PCN natively from version 3.5.6 (algorithm randompcn) — verified against the pool on 2 September 2026, see the pool section below. An rx/pcoin algorithm for xmrig is an open pull request to xmrigCC, not yet merged.
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256 MB is enough. Light-mode verification fits on phones, laptops, and small servers alike — every device can be a full participant.
| Device | Hashes / second |
|---|---|
| Desktop, i9-10900X, 10 threads, fast mode | 6,285 |
| Galaxy Z Flip 5 (flagship) | 144 |
| Pixel 4a (2020 mid-range) | 51 |
| moto g play 2024 (budget) | 43 |
| Galaxy A03 (entry level) | 15 |
What real machines actually do
This page used to carry a calculator. It was removed, because it produced a number that looked certain and was not. What follows instead is every computer of ours that was mining, read off each one on 24 September 2026 with the thread count it was running at. All of them run fast mode on large pages, which is what the miner uses by default when the machine has the memory for it.
| CPU | Threads running | Measured | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-10900X 10 cores / 20 threads, 6 memory sticks |
10 | 6,285 H/s | Our fastest. Its board has four memory channels, twice what an ordinary desktop has, and on RandomX that shows. |
| Intel Core i9-9900K 8 cores / 16 threads, 4 memory sticks |
7 | 3,780 H/s | An always-on PC. Held at seven threads so it stays usable. |
| Intel Core i9-9900K 8 cores / 16 threads, 2 memory sticks |
6 | 3,060 H/s | The same CPU as the row above, with slower memory and fewer sticks, and one thread fewer. About a fifth slower. |
| Intel Core i7-8700K 6 cores / 12 threads |
6 | 2,500 H/s | An office PC, mining at all six physical cores. |
| Intel Core i5-9600K 6 cores / 6 threads |
5 | 2,480 H/s | No hyper-threading, and it barely matters: within a few hashes of the i7 above. |
| Intel Core i7-8700K 6 cores / 12 threads, Linux |
4 | 2,170 H/s | The Linux desktop app on CachyOS. Four threads, chosen by its owner. |
| Intel Core i5-9600K 6 cores / 6 threads, 8 GB |
3 | 2,010 H/s | Half its cores, and still most of the speed of the full machine above. |
| Intel Core i7-8700K 6 cores / 12 threads, 8 GB, 1 memory stick |
3 | 1,890 H/s | Three threads on a single stick of memory. |
| Dual Xeon E5-2697A v4 32 cores / 64 threads, 64 GB |
29 | 4,000–6,000 H/s | Not ours: the largest machine we know of on our pool, as reported by the miner who runs it, using SRBMiner in fast mode. |
Do not read this as a ranking of CPUs. RandomX spends its time reading a 2 GB dataset (256 MB in light mode), so what limits you is memory — its speed, how many channels your board actually fills, and how much of it fits inside your CPU’s own cache. Core count decides far less than people expect. Two computers with the same CPU printed on the box and different memory will not give you the same answer, and one computer will not give you the same answer at four threads and at twelve.
So we are not going to predict your machine, and nobody honestly can. Install it, let it run ten minutes, and read the hash rate off the miner itself — the tray app, pcoin-mine and your pool page all show it live. That takes less time than reading this page, and it is the only figure that is about your computer. Try more threads and fewer, and keep whichever you actually like living with. If you measure something worth sharing, send it to [email protected] and we will put it in this table.
Paid for the work you did, not the block you found
Mining alone is a lottery. Your computer either finds a whole block and earns the full reward, or it finds nothing — and there is no partial credit. A typical PC can wait days between wins. Most people install a miner, watch zero for a week, and conclude it is broken.
A pool fixes that. Everyone points their mining at one coordinator, which hands out work that is deliberately easier than a real block. Each easy solution you send back is called a share: it is worth nothing by itself, but it is proof you did the work. When anyone in the pool finds a real block, the reward is split across everyone in proportion to the shares they contributed.
You are paid for your work, whether or not you were the lucky one. The same earnings, arriving steadily instead of rarely.
It does not increase your earnings. It reduces variance. After the pool fee you will earn slightly less on average than mining alone. What you are buying is predictability, and that is the whole product.
It does not make the chain faster. Block spacing is set by the difficulty algorithm, not by how miners organise.
It concentrates hashrate, and on a network this small that is a real risk rather than a theoretical one. A pool holding a majority of the network is the 51% problem it was meant to reduce. We publish the pool’s hashrate and the network’s at pool.pc.am/api/pools, so its share is checkable rather than claimed, and we would rather see a second pool run by somebody else than grow this one. The pool’s full source is in this project’s repository, and there is a guide to running one: RUNNING-A-POOL.md. We mean that literally — nothing is held back, and a second pool helps us more than it costs us.
Everything above says we would rather see a pool run by somebody else than grow ours. Somebody did.
stratum pcoin.aioncore.pro:3333 RandomX, PPLNS, no registration
fee 1% for the first 15 days, then 2%
stats pcoin.aioncore.pro
stratum pcoin.chatlab.rocks:3333 RandomX, PPLNS, no registration
fee 1%
stats pcoin.chatlab.rocks
stratum pcn.rabidmining.com:6333 RandomX, PPLNS, no registration
fee 1%
stats pool.rabidmining.com/pcn
We do not run them and we cannot vouch for them. For each one we have checked
that its stratum accepts a login from outside, answers with the rx/pcoin
algorithm, and hands out work for the height above our own tip — so it is
building on this chain and is current. Their blocks are on this chain too, paying miners
who are not us, and each statistics page answers at its own name, with TLS.
Mine there with the same judgement you
would apply to any pool holding your shares before it pays them.
We are listing it anyway, and the reason is the paragraph above it: a chain where one party could reorganise the ledger is not decentralised, and on this network that party is currently us. Splitting the hashrate costs us fee income and is worth more than the fee income. If you are choosing a pool and have no other reason to prefer one, prefer one of these.
You do not need separate mining software — it is built into the PCoin node. You do need
a recent enough node: startpoolmining ships from v1.3.0, and
both the node and bitcoin-cli must be that version or newer. An older
CLI sends the thread count as text and the call fails with a type error, even against a
new node. If in doubt, reinstall from the Download section below.
Windows — nothing installed yet? One line does everything: it installs the node, waits for it to sync, asks where to pay you, and starts mining.
irm https://pc.am/dl/install.ps1 | iexIt creates a wallet for you, benchmarks your CPU and settles on the fastest core count on its own, then starts mining — there is nothing to fill in. Approve the User Account Control box to install into C:\PCoin (decline it and it installs to your user folder instead; both work the same). It will not begin mining until the node has finished syncing, because blocks mined on an unsynced node are orphaned and pay nothing. Afterwards, open the tray and write down your recovery phrase — it is the only way to recover your coins if Windows is ever reinstalled.
Windows — already installed? Then call it directly. The binaries keep their upstream names, and the install directory depends on whether the installer had administrator rights:
$P = if (Test-Path C:\PCoin\bitcoin-cli.exe) { 'C:\PCoin' } else { "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\PCoin" }
& "$P\bitcoin-cli.exe" -datadir="$P\data" `
startpoolmining "pool.pc.am:3333" "<your pc1q… address>" 4Linux — nothing installed yet? Same idea, one command:
curl -fsSL https://pc.am/dl/mine.sh | sudo shIt installs if needed, asks for your payout address and thread count, waits until the node has finished syncing, then starts mining and re-applies it after a reboot.
Linux — already installed? The .deb installs the CLI as
pcoin-cli:
sudo -u pcoin pcoin-cli -datadir=/var/lib/pcoin \
startpoolmining "pool.pc.am:3333" "<your pc1q… address>" 4
The last number is how many CPU threads to use; 0 means every core.
stopmining stops it, and startmining "<your address>" 4 puts
you back on solo.
There are two pools, on two different servers. pool.pc.am:3333 is the
primary; pool2.pc.am:3333 runs the same software with the same 2% fee and the
same PPLNS payout, on another machine. If one is unreachable, use the other; a miner that
supports a failover pool should list both. Each pool keeps its own share ledger, so shares
you send to one are paid by that one.
Both the Windows tray and the Linux service re-issue mining whenever the node restarts, and what they re-issue is solo unless the config says otherwise. So a machine set up with the command above mines for the pool until its first reboot and then quietly goes back to paying its own address, with nothing anywhere saying so. Add one line:
Linux /etc/pcoin/miner.conf POOL_URL=pool.pc.am:3333
Windows C:\PCoin\pcoin-tray.cfg poolurl=pool.pc.am:3333
Then sudo systemctl restart pcoin-miner on Linux, or restart the tray on
Windows. Leave the line out — or empty — and you stay on solo, which is the default and
what every existing install keeps.
It returns before it has connected. The command answers immediately with a status of
starting, which is not yet success. Run getcpuminerinfo a few
seconds later and check the pool status field — a refused address or an unreachable pool is
reported there, and nowhere else.
Two things worth knowing. The address is where the pool credits you — no wallet is
opened and no private key is involved on that machine. It must be a standard
pc1q… address; taproot pc1p… addresses pass the node's own check
and are then refused by the pool. And unlike solo mining, your node does not need to be
synced first, because the pool supplies the block being worked on — verified by mining
from a node at height 0 with no peers. Solo mining on an unsynced node is worse than slow:
it builds on a chain your node has not verified, so anything it finds is thrown away.
Already run a mining rig? SRBMiner-Multi mines PCN directly. From version 3.5.6 (17 August 2026)
SRBMiner-Multi carries a native randompcn
algorithm, so a Windows or Linux rig — or a HiveOS custom miner — can point at the pool with no PCoin node, no sync and
no wallet on the machine:
SRBMiner-MULTI --disable-gpu --algorithm randompcn --pool pool.pc.am:3333 --wallet <your pc1q… address> --cpu-threads 4CPU only, like everything else on this chain. SRBMiner charges its own 0.85% developer fee on this algorithm, which goes to its author and not to us, on top of the pool's 2%. It is third-party software: take it only from its GitHub releases page and check the published checksum. Verified 2 September 2026 — connects, receives work and has shares accepted.
Solo is the default, and it is what every install does unless you tell it otherwise. The miner is built into the node, it pays your address straight out of the coinbase, and nobody stands between you and the block you found — no fee, and nothing to trust.
Windows & "$P\bitcoin-cli.exe" -datadir="$P\data" startmining "<your pc1q… address>" 4
Linux pcoin-cli startmining "<your pc1q… address>" 4
The last number is threads; 0 means every core. stopmining stops it.
There is nothing to add to any config file — leaving poolurl out is solo.
The one real cost is variance. Solo pays whole blocks, rarely, instead of small amounts often. A few threads may wait a long time and then receive 50 PCN at once. That is the entire trade: a pool does not earn you more, it smooths the timing and charges for doing so.
Your node must be synced first. Unlike pool mining, solo builds on the chain your own node has verified. Mining on an unsynced node is worse than slow: what it finds is built on a chain nobody else has, and is thrown away.
How it pays
- The pool never holds your coins. You are paid as an output of the block you helped find — the chain pays you directly. There is no pool wallet, no private key on the server, no withdrawal to request and no balance an operator could walk away with.
- Every block, automatically. No withdrawal step, because there is nothing to withdraw from. There is one threshold: a payout below the network's dust limit of 0.00000294 PCN would make the block unrelayable, so a miner under it is skipped for that block and paid by a later one.
- PPLNS — a block pays the most recent window of work, weighted by how hard each share was rather than how many you sent. Timing your arrival or departure gains nothing, and your shares keep earning after you stop, until they age out of the window.
- 2% fee, taken off the block reward before anything is split — never off coins already paid to you.
- Whole satoshis only. Every split is integer arithmetic and every block reconciles exactly: payouts plus fee plus rounding equals the reward, to the satoshi. Paying one satoshi too much would make the block invalid.
The wait nobody warns you about
A freshly mined block’s reward cannot be spent by anyone — pool or solo miner — until it is 100 blocks deep — roughly 15–17 hours at the pace the chain actually runs. Your coins are visible on the chain immediately and simply cannot move until then. That is a consensus rule, not a delay the pool invents. And if that block is later displaced from the chain — which does happen on a young network — the coins it paid never existed and they disappear. The work was real; the block was not. A pool that hid either of these would just be lying to you.
On the dust threshold above: when a miner is skipped, the amount is redistributed to the other miners rather than kept by the pool, and their shares stay in the window. You would need a share of well under a millionth of a block to reach it at all.
Mine PCoin on your PC. Spend it on four real services.
PCN is not a coin waiting for somewhere to be useful. Four live products accept it today, each with its own deposit address, and each crediting your balance automatically once the payment has confirmed — three confirmations on all of them, roughly half an hour. What your computer mines can pay for what you use.
WebAI, AI Control and the Website Builder take wPCN too, in the same way and for the same value. wPCN is PCN wrapped as a token on BNB Smart Chain, so one wPCN credits exactly what one PCN credits — no better and no worse. What it buys you is speed: you paste the transaction hash and it lands in about a minute, against about half an hour for PCN. There is no bonus on either side, because the two are the same coin and pricing them differently would say otherwise. Both read the same rate — the PCN index, published at price.pc.am — at the moment your payment credits, and that rate is stamped on your record so a later move cannot change what you were given.
AI Control
A Claude-powered agent that operates your Windows PCs and
Android phones through ordinary conversation.
aicontrol.pc.am
Website Builder
Describe a site in a Telegram chat and it builds, hosts and
edits it for you.
@MyWebsiteBuilderBot
PCoin AI
Makes pictures and short videos from your words, and changes
or animates your own photos, in Telegram. Talking to it is free; you see the price first
and pay only when you confirm. Deposit PCN there and 10% comes back as extra balance, up to 50 PCN of rebate per calendar month.
@PcoinAiBot
Would rather not mine? You can buy PCN with ordinary crypto at market.pc.am. It sells already-mined coins from a fixed stock at one flat price for any order size: the PCN index plus 3%. The PCN index is what people pay each other on our order book, exchange.pc.am — the median of real trades between users, with our own bots’ trades left out. The live figure is at price.pc.am. That book is young, small and run by us, so read the index as a young number, not a valuation. The market does not buy PCN back. You can offer PCN for sale on the exchange, and a bot of ours buys a small amount there each day at 30% below the index, but nobody is obliged to buy: there is no guaranteed way to sell PCN back. Terms in the Trading section. Buy only what you intend to spend.
Point the miner at your deposit address
Put your AI Control deposit address in the miner's Forward setting. Mined PCN then arrives on its own — no manual sending, no exchange, no intermediate step.
It never touches your keys
AI Control never asks for your PCoin keys and never holds them. The deposit address is constructed so their server can receive to it and cannot spend from it. That is a property of the address itself, not a promise in a terms page.
One rate: the PCN index
All four services credit at the same rate, taken from price.pc.am at the moment your deposit confirms — so none of them can quote you one number and pay another. That rate is the PCN index: the median price of real trades between users on exchange.pc.am. It moves slowly on purpose — at most 2% per trade and 5% a day — and holds still when there is too little trading. The book is young and small, so the index is not a valuation. Check the live figure before you send.
Two things to know before you send. It is one-way: PCN converts to a balance on that service and cannot be converted back or withdrawn. And confirmations are slow — PCoin targets a block every ten minutes, so 3 confirmations is about half an hour. Deposits are recorded the moment they confirm; the balance follows.
This is also the honest answer to “where can I actually use PCN?” — four places, all run by the same people who build PCoin, crediting at the PCN index. It is a real use. The index comes from a small, young order book that we also run, so anything that calls it a valuation is overselling it.
PCoin can now be reached by wallets we did not write.
Until late August 2026, the only software that could talk to PCoin was software we built. That was the real barrier to PCN ever being tradable — not paperwork, not permission. Two ElectrumX servers now serve the PCoin chain, which is the standard interface every Electrum-protocol wallet and most decentralised exchanges expect. On the strength of that, PCN has completed its first atomic swaps and has been accepted into the Komodo DeFi Framework coin list (pull request merged 31 August 2026). Separately, wPCN — a wrapped claim on PCN — now trades on PancakeSwap, so a stranger with a wallet and USDT can buy exposure without needing a counterparty. Read what that is, and is not, below.
The PCN price comes from this book. The PCN index is the volume-weighted median of real trades between users here. Trades with our own bots or our own accounts never count, and neither do trades between linked accounts or accounts under three days old. It needs at least 5 such trades, by 4 different people, worth $25 in all, within its window — 24 hours, widening to 72 and then 168 when trading is thin. It moves at most 2% per qualifying trade and 5% a day, never goes below $0.015 or above $0.10, and with no qualifying trades it holds its last value. Read it live at exchange.pc.am/api/index, or at price.pc.am, which relays it.
We quote on the same book. A bot of ours sells PCN at the index plus 3%, up to $120 a day, and buys PCN at 30% below the index, up to $50 a day in five $10 rounds (00:00, 04:48, 09:36, 14:24 and 19:12 UTC). Everything else is users trading with users. It is our venue, it is young and thin, and nobody is obliged to buy from you: it is a place to sell, not a promise of a price.
You need a BSC wallet that can add a custom BEP-20 token — MetaMask on a phone works (open the redeem page inside the wallet's own browser). Never send wPCN to an exchange deposit address: no exchange lists it. Both directions are done by hand — allow hours, not minutes. When redeeming, return the wPCN to the desk rather than burning it: the supply is fixed and cannot be minted, so a burn permanently shrinks what can ever be wrapped again; a return refills the desk's inventory and pays you the same PCN. Both routes are on the redeem page.
| ElectrumX | electrum1.pc.am · electrum2.pc.am — SSL on 50002, WSS on 50004, TCP on 50001 |
|---|---|
| First atomic swap | 100 PCN traded for DOGE, non-custodially, settled on both chains — the five transactions |
| wPCN on PancakeSwap | BEP-20 on BNB Smart Chain, source verified — 0x290A5779a419Cb9cB22fa087CDD1CD16dA2D95F1 · buy or sell (both pinned to USDT — that is the only pair, and a link without it defaults to BNB and routes badly). No wallet knows this token yet, so it will not appear until you add it — one click on the wrap desk, or by hand with the address above and 8 decimals. Backed 1:1 by PCN at pc1q7hhzmdkkx0zjtzj6qkwmuvhlgwfqjrc6j2dk52 |
| Wrap desk | wrapdesk.pc.am — open in both directions again since 19 September 2026, after being shut to new wrapping from 13 September. Turning PCN into wPCN needs a market.pc.am sign-in (since 23 September), takes up to 250 PCN per deposit address, a 5% fee and 100 confirmations, and the desk has a fixed allocation: when it runs out, it refuses rather than overcommit. Redemption: wrapdesk.pc.am/redeem lets your own wallet hand the wPCN back to the desk (or burn it through the contract) and the PCN is sent back by hand — allow hours, not minutes. Returning is preferred: it keeps the fixed supply usable for the next wrap |
| Komodo DeFi listing | Accepted. Pull request #1964 was merged on 31 August 2026 after the maintainer ran a swap of their own against our chain, so PCN is now in the Komodo DeFi Framework coin list (PCN, legacy P… addresses, 2 confirmations) |
| Price aggregators | LiveCoinWatch lists PCN — with no price so far. Blockspot lists PCN too, with its verified badge. PCN itself trades only on our own young order book, exchange.pc.am; wPCN's PancakeSwap pool is a market in the wrapped token, not in PCN. CoinCodex declined until PCN is on an exchange; CoinMarketCap was applied to on 13 August and has not listed it |
wPCN is not PCN. It is an IOU on another chain, backed 1:1 by PCN held in a reserve wallet: the reserve address printed above plus the wrap desk's deposit addresses, which belong to the same wallet. wrapdesk.pc.am/proof adds them all up live and sets the total against the token's fixed 50,000 supply — that is the figure to check, because the one address on its own holds only part of the reserve. The contract has no owner and no mint function, so nobody, including us, can create more. Six things to know before buying: the pool is small (about $900 across both sides on 2 September 2026, when a $20 trade moved the price roughly 9%, which is arithmetic, not a flaw); the liquidity is not locked and the project holds the LP tokens; neither door is instant — wrapping waits 100 confirmations, about 17 hours, and redeeming means a person sends the PCN by hand; wPCN can trade above PCN, and only a limited amount can pull it back down — because the supply cannot be minted, the only thing that pushes wPCN down to PCN is wPCN leaving the desk's unissued inventory, when somebody wraps more PCN or our own bot sells into the pool (below); when that inventory runs out, wPCN can sit at a premium to PCN indefinitely. The other direction has no such limit: wPCN below PCN is corrected by anyone who buys it and redeems 1:1. That is the one structural difference from wrapped Bitcoin, whose supply is minted on deposit, and it is why the desk now asks for returns rather than burns; it is also why the price you pay for wPCN on PancakeSwap can be higher than PCN costs at market.pc.am — check both; we trade this pool ourselves. Since 25 September a bot of ours holds it within 3% of a target set from the PCN index (the target can sit below the index) in both directions: it checks every minute, buys wPCN when the pool is more than 3% below that target and sells when it is more than 3% above, in steps of at most $10 or 400 wPCN, and spends at most $50 of USDT and 2,000 wPCN a day — a move bigger than that budget can outrun it. The pool no longer sets any of our numbers: the PCN price is the index of trades between users on exchange.pc.am, and both the rate our services credit PCN at and the price we sell PCN for are taken from it, whatever the pool does. So the price is less ours than it was — it comes from what users paid each other — but it is set on a young, thin book that we run, not by strangers in a venue we do not; and buying wPCN gets you a claim, not coins you can spend on the services above.
The first atomic swap was between two wallets we control. It exists because Komodo requires a completed swap before they will consider a coin, and for no other reason. The second was the Komodo maintainer swapping 100 PCN we sent them, before merging the listing. Both prove the machinery works end to end; neither is a price, and any number derived from them would be us quoting ourselves. Nothing on this site will ever cite one as such.
There is one distribution fact we would rather you heard from us than worked out later. The first 2,015 blocks — about 27.7 hours after genesis — paid out 100,750 PCN at the difficulty floor, while almost nobody was mining. That is roughly a fifth of everything mined so far, and the share falls every ten minutes as the chain grows. It was open mining and not a premine: the code, the genesis block and the difficulty were public from the first block, and anyone could point a CPU at it — but "anyone could have" is not the same as "many did", and the coins are real. The invariant never changes, so check it rather than trusting this sentence: divide 100,750 by the supply reported at explorer.pc.am/api/status.
The same applies to the rich list we publish ourselves. One of the largest addresses on it is the wPCN reserve,
pc1q7hhz…dk52
— it is ours, and it is the core of the reserve that backs every wPCN in existence 1:1. The rest
of the reserve sits on the wrap desk's deposit addresses, which belong to the same wallet, so that
one address on its own holds only part of it. The whole reserve is added up live, with the
contract's own supply beside it, at
wrapdesk.pc.am/proof. We do not print balances here, because they move: read them from the
rich list and the proof page, and walk the addresses yourself rather than take this
paragraph's word for it.
Custodial exchanges — the kind that hold your coins and credit you a balance — are not where we are pushing, though we should be exact rather than pious about it: we applied to two small ones. SafeTrade replied on 4 September 2026 — “thank you for the interest, but we will pass” — and FreiExchange has not answered since August. We are not chasing anything larger while one pool still routes most blocks, and we would rather you could hold your own coins than have us hold them for you. The address that once mined the majority of blocks has gone completely silent — zero blocks in its most recent stretch, after finding most of them a few days earlier. We are not printing a percentage here on purpose: on a chain this size, one address turning its hashrate on or off changes the honest answer within hours, and a number frozen into this page would already be wrong by the time you read it — ours was, twice, inside one day. What does not go stale is the check itself. Compare pool.pc.am/api/pools against the network's hashrate whenever you are reading this, for whichever party currently holds the largest share — today that is our own pool, for the reason explained below: predictability draws people to one place. Whoever holds a majority is the same shape of risk against a custodial exchange — a known attacker and a known victim — so the responsible venues right now are still the non-custodial ones, which hold nothing. The measurement method and a confidence interval are in the listing request itself, and we report the current figure, not a stale one, in our Telegram channel — we would rather a reviewer read it from us than find it on their own.
The numbers that define PCoin
Everything below is consensus, fixed in code, and auditable in the public repository.
| Ticker | PCN |
|---|---|
| Max supply | 21,000,000 PCN — hard cap, identical to Bitcoin |
| Block subsidy | 50 PCN, halving every 210,000 blocks |
| Block time | 10 minutes (target). Difficulty retargets every block using LWMA from height 2800; before that it used Bitcoin's 2016-block retarget (see the explorer for live blocks and the spacing actually achieved) |
| Proof of work | RandomX, fixed key PCoin/RandomX/v1, light-mode (256 MB) verification. Block IDs remain double-SHA256. |
| Base | Fork of Bitcoin Core v29.4 — independent network, own genesis, own magic |
| P2P / RPC ports | 9444 / 9443 (mainnet) |
| Network magic | cf a2 d1 b8 |
| Addresses | Legacy start with P (base58 prefix 55); native segwit pc1... |
| Genesis block ID | a95d51f0cbf25cad10c35961c6189356525d079835f02e83e2395f382fbe264a |
| Genesis time | 1785600628 — timestamp string: “PCoin 01/Aug/2026 an independent chain is born” |
| Launch difficulty | nBits 0x1f0fffff — about 4,096 expected hashes per block at launch (a phone can bootstrap the chain) |
| Config / data | pcoin.conf · ~/.pcoin (Linux) · %LOCALAPPDATA%\PCoin (Windows) |
Mine it, or hold it
Two different things, so they now have two different pages. Mining turns spare CPU time into PCN. A wallet holds PCN you already have. Each page carries the exact commands for your platform, with screenshots of what you should end up looking at.
Mining
Windows, Linux and Android. RandomX runs on an ordinary processor — no GPU,
no ASIC, nothing to buy. On Windows the installer starts mining on half your cores unless
you give it -NoMine; on Linux the setup wizard asks how many cores to use; on
Android nothing mines until you turn it on.
Wallet
Android on Google Play, a Windows desktop wallet, or a full node you drive yourself. Twelve words, held by you and nobody else.
Accept PCN in your own product.
There is no gateway to sign up with, no merchant account and no fee. You watch the chain for payments to addresses you derive yourself, and you keep your own keys. Four live services run on exactly this — the guide below is the one they were built from, including the mistakes they made first.
The three endpoints you need
All three are public, unauthenticated and free. No key to request, no quota to negotiate.
- Payments — explorer.pc.am tells you what an address has received, and at what height.
- A second opinion — explorer2.pc.am is a separate node, so you can confirm a payment against two independent sources before you credit anyone.
- Pricing — price.pc.am returns creditRateUsd, the USD value to credit one PCN at: the PCN index. Read it at the moment you credit and never hardcode it; if it cannot be read, hold the deposit rather than guess.
What a payment check looks like
# has this address been paid?
curl -s https://explorer.pc.am/api/address/pc1q…?history=5
# what is a PCN worth right now?
curl -s https://price.pc.am # -> {"creditRateUsd":<USD per PCN>, …} read it live, never copy it
Credit after 3 confirmations, and key your ledger on (txid, address) — not on (txid, vout). That one detail was shipped wrong by every integration before it was caught, and it silently loses a customer’s deposit rather than erroring. The guide explains why.
Read the integration guide → Listing PCN on an exchange →
It covers deriving addresses from an xpub without putting a private key on your web server, the confirmation gates, reorg handling, refunds, and a go-live checklist.
Running an exchange instead? Listing PCN is the page for you — chain parameters, node setup, the two settings without which every withdrawal fails, deposit and withdrawal rules, and an honest list of what the node deliberately does not provide.
One command. Then watch it mine.
There is no mining software to find, configure or trust — the miner is inside the node, and the node is what the one command below installs. Point it at an address and it runs.
Get an address
On Windows and Android the miner makes a wallet for you — write down the twelve words it shows. On Linux the machine holds no key, so install the wallet app first and use an address from it. That address is where your mining pays, and those words are the only way back to it.
Install
One command for Windows, one for Debian/Ubuntu, an APK for Android. Each verifies its own download before it runs — full instructions per platform.
Paste the address in
Setup checks it against the node, so a typo is caught before it costs you a block rather than after.
Wait for sync, then mine
Mining starts by itself once the node is caught up. Starting sooner would build on blocks it has not checked.
# One command. Downloads the miner, checks it against the published # SHA-256, installs it, and starts mining -- auto-tuned to the fastest # core count for your CPU. Approve the UAC prompt to finish setup. irm https://pc.am/dl/install.ps1 | iex PCoin 1.4.37 installer sha256 ok tray app present desktop shortcut created configured to mine with 4 cores # Prefer to do it by hand? Download the .zip above, unzip it anywhere and # run PCoinTray.exe. Same files, same result.
# On Debian or Ubuntu, this is the whole thing. # It checks the download against the published SHA-256, installs the # node, then asks where to pay your block rewards. curl -fsSL https://pc.am/dl/install.sh | sudo sh checksum verified installed PCoin miner setup ------------------------------------------------------------ + node running, at height 3591 Where should block rewards be paid? Payout address: pc1q… + address checked by the node and valid Mining threads [3]: Run at low priority so other software always wins? [Y/n]: ------------------------------------------------------------ + payout address : pc1q… + mining threads : 3 of 4 + priority : background (nice 15, idle IO) ------------------------------------------------------------ Mining. # Watch it work. Press b for your balance, q to quit. # A real session from 15 Aug 2026, left exactly as it was. The network was # 53.5 kH/s that day and is more than ten times that now, so the share # and the block estimate below are HISTORY, not a forecast — the same # machine would wait far longer today. The tool reads both live; use the # hardware section above, or pool.pc.am, for what to expect. pcoin-mine PCoin miner Status * mining with 3 of 4 cores Hashrate 128 H/s of 53.5 kH/s on the whole network -- 0.24% A block every 2d 17h estimate, and luck swings it wildly Blocks found 0 Chain 3591 up to date, 8 peers Paying to pc1q… # Rewards go straight to the address you gave — this machine never # holds a key, so there is nothing on it worth stealing. Point as # many machines at one address as you like. # Change your mind later, or stop mining without stopping the node: sudo pcoin-setup sudo systemctl stop pcoin-miner # Prefer no packages? Take the portable archive instead: # .../releases/download/v1.4.34/pcoin-linux-x86_64-miner.tar.gz # then run ./bitcoind -daemon from inside it.
Near-term goals
No dates promised, no tokens sold. Shipped items say so; everything else is still to do, and nothing here is described as finished before it is. The full picture, including what each unfinished item is waiting on, is on the roadmap page.
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Android node + miner app Shipped
An app that runs a full node and mines on your phone's CPU. The clearest proof of the mission: money creation from the device in your pocket. Built from the same source as the wallet below.
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Android wallet app Shipped
A wallet-only build with no miner in it: balance, send, receive with a QR code, and history. It carries a full node rather than trusting a server, which the whole chain still being small makes practical. A twelve-word recovery phrase restores it on any device.
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Block explorer and public API Shipped
Live at explorer.pc.am: blocks, transactions, addresses and a rich list, plus a read-only JSON API at /api for wallets and, eventually, exchange integrations.
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PCN accepted by four live services Shipped
Not a pilot and not a promise: webai.pc.am, @MyWebsiteBuilderBot, AI Control and @PcoinAiBot all take PCN today. Each issues you an address only your account is credited for, waits for confirmations (three), and converts at the PCN index, published by price.pc.am. On the first three, every deposit is checked against two independent block explorers before any balance moves, and a deposit that cannot be corroborated is held rather than credited.
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Second block explorer Shipped
A second indexer on a different machine, reading from a different node, exists so no single explorer decides whether your money arrived. The payment services compare the two and refuse to credit when they disagree.
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100 independent nodes In progress
Get one hundred people running always-on nodes in different places. Decentralized block production and history is the foundation for everything else. Today the number is far smaller than that, and most of the hashrate flows through one pool — ours.
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Browser-based wallet Planned
Not built yet. The intent is send and receive without installing anything, for people who will never touch a command line. Until it exists, the Android wallet and the desktop node are the only wallets built for it; the Komodo listing lets other software reach the chain, but nothing there is aimed at a first-time user.
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Tipping and person-to-person payments Planned
Paying services with PCN now works — see above. What does not exist yet is paying people: tipping a creator, settling a small debt, sending value to someone who is not a merchant. That needs a wallet ordinary people will actually install, which is why the browser wallet sits above this one.
Read this before you mine
A fair coin deserves fair disclosure. Here is everything we'd want to know in your place.
Young, experimental chain
PCoin launched in August 2026. It is an experiment in fair money creation — not an investment. It trades only on its own young, thin order book at exchange.pc.am, which we run — the PCN index at price.pc.am is the median of real trades there, not a valuation, and nobody is obliged to buy — and nothing here is financial advice. Treat PCN as something you mine and learn with, not something you buy.
Security grows with you
A proof-of-work chain is only as strong as its honest hashrate. Today that hashrate is small, so the network is not yet resistant to well-resourced attackers. Every new miner and node makes it stronger. That is exactly why participation matters.
Hashrate is concentrated, and who holds it changes
On a chain this small one party routinely holds more than half of the hashrate, and which party that is has changed more than once in a month — in August an outside address (71% of blocks 4125–4274, measured on 19 August), today our own pool. A miner holding a majority can reorganise recent blocks and reverse a payment that already looked settled. Shallow reorgs of a block or two do happen here (the explorer counts them); the supply is exact. Against a majority no confirmation depth is provably safe — waiting longer buys time and cost, not certainty. If you are accepting PCN for anything that matters, wait deeper than you would on a chain with spread-out hashrate, and watch for reorgs rather than trusting depth alone. Recompute the share yourself from the public explorer — every coinbase is on the chain — and use a window of several hundred blocks, because 60 blocks is mostly sampling noise. More independent miners is the only thing that fixes this.
Open source, auditable
The full source is public on GitHub under the MIT license, based on Bitcoin Core. Don't trust our claims — read the diff.
A small project, and it says so.
PCoin is not a company and does not pretend to be one. It is maintained by one person, in the open, with everything it runs on published under an MIT licence.
Pars — maintainer
Chain, node, wallets, pool and the payment rails. Works under the handle pars, which is the same identity on every surface this project has: the source repository, the commit history behind every release, and [email protected]. That is a pseudonym rather than a legal name, and it is said here plainly rather than left for somebody to work out.
What is verifiable is the work, not the name. The chain has produced blocks continuously since 1 August 2026, every binary is built from the public tree, and the whole history — including the mistakes and the fixes — is in the repository for anyone to read.
One maintainer is a real risk
Pretending otherwise would be dishonest. The mitigation is not a promise that nothing will happen; it is that nothing here depends on the maintainer staying.
The chain does not need us. Nodes find each other by gossip once they have run before. If every server this project owns disappeared, existing nodes would keep mining and settling; only a brand-new node would need a peer address, and any live peer works.
The pool holds no keys. Payouts are paid by the coinbase directly to miners, so a pool operator cannot lose them or take them. Anyone can run a competing pool — and someone should, because concentration in ours is the most real risk this chain currently has.
Your coins are yours. Wallets are twelve-word BIP39 with a published derivation path and test vectors, so any conforming wallet can restore them whether or not our software still exists.
Problems, questions and disagreement are all welcome: [email protected], Telegram, the chat group, Discord, or an issue on the repository. Anything that affects people holding PCN is announced on Telegram first.