PCoin has a second mining pool, and we do not run it.
An independent operator has been running one at 198.244.169.49:3333 since early September. We checked it again today: it speaks the right algorithm, serves an 80-byte PCoin header rather than someone else's, and the job it handed us was building on our chain at our current tip. It is real.
We are naming it because the biggest weakness in PCoin right now is that our own pool holds about 80% of the network's hashrate. A pool nobody at PCoin controls is the only real answer to that, and this one arrived without us asking for it.
Be clear about what we are and are not saying. We do not run it, we have no relationship with whoever does, and we have not verified that it pays its miners — we can only see that it builds valid PCoin blocks. Solo mining is still the option that requires trusting nobody at all.
If you send hashrate there, start small and check you get paid.
An independent operator has been running one at 198.244.169.49:3333 since early September. We checked it again today: it speaks the right algorithm, serves an 80-byte PCoin header rather than someone else's, and the job it handed us was building on our chain at our current tip. It is real.
We are naming it because the biggest weakness in PCoin right now is that our own pool holds about 80% of the network's hashrate. A pool nobody at PCoin controls is the only real answer to that, and this one arrived without us asking for it.
Be clear about what we are and are not saying. We do not run it, we have no relationship with whoever does, and we have not verified that it pays its miners — we can only see that it builds valid PCoin blocks. Solo mining is still the option that requires trusting nobody at all.
If you send hashrate there, start small and check you get paid.
💸 Paid out
$99.99 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 6.7 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x735c11e468e9bd7522faf87fdd61ca76e1c7dda98c2563a7103f93a6ed876d3c
2 payouts so far · $199.98.
$99.99 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 6.7 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x735c11e468e9bd7522faf87fdd61ca76e1c7dda98c2563a7103f93a6ed876d3c
2 payouts so far · $199.98.
Four ways to earn PCN
Three are live now, the fourth opens soon. Every one is checked by machine — nothing to claim, no form to fill in.
• Bring someone to exchange.pc.am — 500 PCN
• Run a mining pool that is not ours — 500 PCN
• Spend PCN at @MyWebsiteBuilderBot — 10% back
• Bring someone to aicontrol.pc.am — 100 PCN, soon
PCN is not listed on any exchange except our own — please read that part too.
Conditions for each: https://pc.am/bounty/
Three are live now, the fourth opens soon. Every one is checked by machine — nothing to claim, no form to fill in.
• Bring someone to exchange.pc.am — 500 PCN
• Run a mining pool that is not ours — 500 PCN
• Spend PCN at @MyWebsiteBuilderBot — 10% back
• Bring someone to aicontrol.pc.am — 100 PCN, soon
PCN is not listed on any exchange except our own — please read that part too.
Conditions for each: https://pc.am/bounty/
💸 Paid out
1150 PCN — sent 4.2 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://explorer.pc.am/tx/b944d0fa26f3a7bf45334c8218876f35d9f9ee4d0e962c19e2af782fd1175494
3 payouts so far · $199.98 · 1150 PCN.
1150 PCN — sent 4.2 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://explorer.pc.am/tx/b944d0fa26f3a7bf45334c8218876f35d9f9ee4d0e962c19e2af782fd1175494
3 payouts so far · $199.98 · 1150 PCN.
💸 Paid out
5050 PCN — sent 3.1 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://explorer.pc.am/tx/dc41883b2069cb23bac9820767847a0f22c782d550a2926fca46bdfb54deecab
5 payouts so far · $229.99 · 6200 PCN.
5050 PCN — sent 3.1 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://explorer.pc.am/tx/dc41883b2069cb23bac9820767847a0f22c782d550a2926fca46bdfb54deecab
5 payouts so far · $229.99 · 6200 PCN.
💸 Paid out
$75.71 — USDT on TRON, sent 5.7 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/78568c43125a0e740cd5ee1b0eb176b40ac050fa9139290bfd6875e8002cad04
6 payouts so far · $305.7 · 6200 PCN.
$75.71 — USDT on TRON, sent 5.7 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/78568c43125a0e740cd5ee1b0eb176b40ac050fa9139290bfd6875e8002cad04
6 payouts so far · $305.7 · 6200 PCN.
PCoin Official
💸 Paid out $99.99 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 50 minutes later. Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid. Check it on the chain: https://bscscan.com/tx…
Correction: this payout was 100.00 USDT, not $99.99. Our announcer subtracted the network fee a second time — the fee had already been charged separately, so the figure published here was too low. The payment itself was always correct and is on the chain. Fixed so it cannot happen again.
PCoin Official
💸 Paid out $99.99 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 6.7 hours later. Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid. Check it on the chain: https://bscscan.com/tx/…
Correction: this payout was 100.00 USDT, not $99.99. Our announcer subtracted the network fee a second time — the fee had already been charged separately, so the figure published here was too low. The payment itself was always correct and is on the chain. Fixed so it cannot happen again.
PCoin Official
💸 Paid out $75.71 — USDT on TRON, sent 5.7 hours later. Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid. Check it on the chain: https://tronscan.org/#/transaction…
Correction: this payout was 78.00 USDT, not $75.71. Our announcer subtracted the network fee a second time — the fee had already been charged separately, so the figure published here was too low. The payment itself was always correct and is on the chain. Fixed so it cannot happen again.
On the chain:
On the chain:
78568c43125a0e740cd5ee1b0eb176b40ac050fa9139290bfd6875e8002cad04💸 Paid out
32.30 USDT — on TRON (TRC20), sent 10.3 hours after it was requested.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. This one was held back earlier today because our announcer had the amount wrong; the payment itself went out on time and is on the chain.
32.30 USDT — on TRON (TRC20), sent 10.3 hours after it was requested.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. This one was held back earlier today because our announcer had the amount wrong; the payment itself went out on time and is on the chain.
💸 Paid out
$50 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 32 minutes later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xb8c47e2846b6df1c4b84f2cc7fb819a09a456255d9eb40e9bca094b99c483ebe
7 payouts so far · $360.3 · 6200 PCN.
$50 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 32 minutes later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xb8c47e2846b6df1c4b84f2cc7fb819a09a456255d9eb40e9bca094b99c483ebe
7 payouts so far · $360.3 · 6200 PCN.
💸 Paid out
$40.75 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 3.0 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x59f3520b20110b850913f58daa93f099ac40ada66fe52d49172525d508aeccb0
8 payouts so far · $401.05 · 6200 PCN.
$40.75 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 3.0 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x59f3520b20110b850913f58daa93f099ac40ada66fe52d49172525d508aeccb0
8 payouts so far · $401.05 · 6200 PCN.
💸 Paid out
$32.85 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 50 minutes later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xde23373e2efc1cacb4ce248cdef59e21fd332db6cffcb7f0938af5cf497823a6
9 payouts so far · $433.9 · 6200 PCN.
$32.85 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 50 minutes later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xde23373e2efc1cacb4ce248cdef59e21fd332db6cffcb7f0938af5cf497823a6
9 payouts so far · $433.9 · 6200 PCN.
👍2
Node update v1.4.34 — a second DNS seed
A fresh PCoin node finds the network by asking a DNS seed. Until now every node took the slow path: Core asks for x9.seed.pc.am, that name never existed, and the node fell back to one slow address fetch. It worked, so nobody noticed.
v1.4.34 adds dnsseed.pc.am: a crawler-backed seed on two separate machines that answers with nodes it has itself handshaked with, ours or anyone's. A fresh node now gets 22 addresses on its first query instead of one.
No consensus change. Older nodes keep working; upgrading is recommended, not required. Wallet and data untouched.
Windows miner, same update: a pool picker (pool.pc.am / pool2.pc.am), real recovery after sleep, fast mode no longer lost to a one-off start failure.
Upgrade
• Windows: the tray offers it, or re-run the pc.am one-liner
• Linux: curl -fsSL https://pc.am/dl/install.sh | sudo sh
• Android: next app update
Downloads and checksums: pc.am/download
A fresh PCoin node finds the network by asking a DNS seed. Until now every node took the slow path: Core asks for x9.seed.pc.am, that name never existed, and the node fell back to one slow address fetch. It worked, so nobody noticed.
v1.4.34 adds dnsseed.pc.am: a crawler-backed seed on two separate machines that answers with nodes it has itself handshaked with, ours or anyone's. A fresh node now gets 22 addresses on its first query instead of one.
No consensus change. Older nodes keep working; upgrading is recommended, not required. Wallet and data untouched.
Windows miner, same update: a pool picker (pool.pc.am / pool2.pc.am), real recovery after sleep, fast mode no longer lost to a one-off start failure.
Upgrade
• Windows: the tray offers it, or re-run the pc.am one-liner
• Linux: curl -fsSL https://pc.am/dl/install.sh | sudo sh
• Android: next app update
Downloads and checksums: pc.am/download
💸 Paid out
$50 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 3.9 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x9ab229c50e435fcbd3a9bf236e240fe16f062ac43433ade689d1e01fb3abb891
10 payouts so far · $483.9 · 6200 PCN.
$50 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 3.9 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x9ab229c50e435fcbd3a9bf236e240fe16f062ac43433ade689d1e01fb3abb891
10 payouts so far · $483.9 · 6200 PCN.
👍2
💸 Paid out
$50 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 1.9 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xf7547359906d95c56d764f1cafd431794452160bad78ee40f93e4cbab5a2a556
11 payouts so far · $533.9 · 6200 PCN.
$50 — USDT on BNB Smart Chain, sent 1.9 hours later.
Somebody mined PCN, sold it on exchange.pc.am, and took the money out. Every payout is checked against the chain before it counts as paid.
Check it on the chain:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xf7547359906d95c56d764f1cafd431794452160bad78ee40f93e4cbab5a2a556
11 payouts so far · $533.9 · 6200 PCN.
🔁 Wrap desk — PCN → wPCN
250.00 PCN in → 237.50 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: 2df7f201…c5e7c644
wPCN sent: 0x1e649dbf…58938b13
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am
250.00 PCN in → 237.50 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: 2df7f201…c5e7c644
wPCN sent: 0x1e649dbf…58938b13
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am
🔁 Wrap desk — PCN → wPCN
250.00 PCN in → 237.50 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: cd1942cd…5e319d9c
wPCN sent: 0xfceab817…c2da3122
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am
250.00 PCN in → 237.50 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: cd1942cd…5e319d9c
wPCN sent: 0xfceab817…c2da3122
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am
🔁 Wrap desk — PCN → wPCN
109.53 PCN in → 104.0535 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: fefa57b1…0e4013db
wPCN sent: 0x4b6e49e3…cb8b56f4
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am
109.53 PCN in → 104.0535 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: fefa57b1…0e4013db
wPCN sent: 0x4b6e49e3…cb8b56f4
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am
🔁 Wrap desk — PCN → wPCN
140.47 PCN in → 133.4465 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: a39fba09…e2e460b8
wPCN sent: 0x992873f4…8c6f841a
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am
140.47 PCN in → 133.4465 wPCN out
5% wrap fee, taken in wPCN.
PCN deposit: a39fba09…e2e460b8
wPCN sent: 0x992873f4…8c6f841a
Every wPCN in circulation is backed 1:1 by PCN in the public reserve — and that deposit is what put this one there.
wrapdesk.pc.am