Frequently asked questions

PCoin (PCN) is an independent Layer-1 blockchain with its own genesis block, network and addresses. It is not a token on another chain. It is built on the Bitcoin Core codebase with two changes: proof-of-work is RandomX, which runs well on an ordinary CPU, and difficulty adjusts every block.

The supply rules are Bitcoin's: 21 million maximum, 50 PCN per block, halving every 210,000 blocks, one block every ten minutes on average. The chain went live in August 2026.

Announcements are posted to @PCoinPCN on Telegram and to the PCoin Discord. Release notes are on pc.am/news and the source code is on GitHub.

The forum's moderators banned the BitcoinTalk account that posted it on 9 September 2026, and a ban removes that account's threads. Nothing changed with PCoin itself. An appeal has been sent. Any "new official thread" there is not from the project unless @PCoinPCN announces it.

• Mine it with your CPU. See the mining questions below.
• Buy it directly from the project at market.pc.am.

• Android: PCoin Wallet on Google Play. The easiest start.
• Windows: PCoin Wallet for Windows, from pc.am/wallet.
• Linux: the node installs with the one-liner on pc.am/mining.

Every wallet gives you a 12-word recovery phrase. Write it on paper. It is the only way back into your coins, and nobody can recover it for you.

• Windows: run irm https://pc.am/dl/install.ps1 | iex in PowerShell. It installs a node and the tray miner. Choose how many CPU threads to use from the tray icon.
• Linux: run curl -fsSL https://pc.am/dl/install.sh | sudo sh. A short setup asks for your payout address and thread count.
• Pool mining: pool.pc.am has the connection settings, and works with SRBMiner-Multi's randompcn algorithm.

Stock xmrig and SHA-256 miners do not work on PCoin.

No. A mining reward can only be spent after 100 more blocks, the same rule as Bitcoin. They become spendable on their own.

Ten minutes is an average, not a schedule. Finding a block is random, so a gap of half an hour happens regularly and is not a fault.

That is SmartScreen, which warns about any program that is not code-signed and not yet widely downloaded. It is a reputation warning, not a virus detection. Every release lists SHA-256 checksums on GitHub and at pc.am/dl/SHA256SUMS.txt, so you can check the file you downloaded.

• webai.pc.am: an AI assistant in your browser. Top up at webai.pc.am/deposit.
• aicontrol.pc.am: control your computers with AI. Top up under Balance.
• @MyWebsiteBuilderBot: build a website from a chat. Top up with /topup.
• @PcoinAiBot: make pictures and short videos, or animate your own photos. Top up from the bot's balance menu.

Each service gives you your own deposit address on its top-up page. Always use that one, never an address someone posts in a chat. Deposits are credited after 3 confirmations, usually about half an hour.

That is almost always your change address. A wallet spends whole coins, so sending 1 PCN out of a 10 PCN coin returns about 9 PCN to a new address that belongs to the same wallet. Nothing is lost. You can check any transaction on explorer.pc.am.

PCN trades on one exchange: exchange.pc.am, a small PCN/USD order book that the project runs. You can place an order to sell there, and other people can buy it. A bot of ours also buys a little each day, at 30% below the PCN index and up to $50 a day. Nobody is obliged to buy, so there is no guaranteed way to cash out, and a large sale moves the price against you.

PCN is not listed on any other exchange. If you see "PCN" on one, it is either wPCN or a scam.

It is the PCN index: the volume-weighted median price of real trades between users on exchange.pc.am. Trades with our own bots and accounts do not count, and neither do trades between linked accounts or by accounts less than three days old. It moves at most 2% per qualifying trade and 5% a day, never goes below $0.015 or above $0.10, and holds still when there is too little trading.

Every service that takes PCN credits it at the index, and market.pc.am sells PCN at the index plus 3%. The live figure is at price.pc.am and exchange.pc.am/api/index. The book is young and small, so read the index as a young number, not a valuation.

wPCN is a token on BNB Smart Chain that is backed one-to-one by PCN held in a public reserve. It exists so PCoin can trade on PancakeSwap.

Both directions are open. Turn PCN into wPCN at wrapdesk.pc.am — sign-in required (your market.pc.am account); as of September 2026 the limits are 250 PCN per deposit address, 250 a day and 1,000 a month per account; a 5% fee; and 100 confirmations before the wPCN is sent. Turn wPCN back into PCN at wrapdesk.pc.am/redeem, 1 for 1 with no fee on that side. Both are settled by a person, so allow hours rather than minutes, and the wrap desk can run out of its allocation and refuse. Never send wPCN to an exchange deposit address; no exchange lists it.

Return it rather than burning it. The redeem page offers two routes that pay the same PCN: returning the wPCN to the desk's inventory, or burning it through the contract. The supply is fixed at 50,000 and cannot be minted, so every burn permanently shrinks what can ever be wrapped again. A return keeps it usable.

wPCN and PCN can have different prices, and the two directions differ. A bot of ours keeps the PancakeSwap pool within 3% of a target set from the PCN index — the target can sit below the index — in both directions, but only within a daily budget ($50 of USDT and 2,000 wPCN), so a bigger move can outrun it. Beyond that: if wPCN trades below PCN, anyone can buy it, redeem 1:1 and pull it back up. If wPCN trades above PCN, only wPCN leaving the desk's inventory pushes it back down — somebody wrapping more PCN, or our bot selling — and once that inventory is used up, wPCN can sit at a premium to PCN with nothing to correct it. The pool is not an input to the PCN price: the rate PCoin's services credit PCN at and the price we sell PCN for both come from the index, so a premium costs no one who spends PCN, but it can mean paying more for wPCN on PancakeSwap than PCN costs at market.pc.am.

It is a scam. Nobody from PCoin will ever message you first, ask for your recovery phrase or private key, ask you to "validate" a wallet, or offer to arrange an exchange listing. Block them and report it in the chat so others see it.

Treat the coins as exposed: create a new wallet straight away and send everything to it. Anyone who read the phrase can spend from the old one.

Advertising and outside links are not allowed in the PCoin chat. Links to PCoin's own sites and channels are fine.