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PCoin (PCN) — an independent RandomX layer-1 you can mine on a CPU. 21M cap, no premine, no ICO.

Chat: t.me/PCoinPCNChat
Discord: discord.gg/dGmdwJkb9f
FAQ: pc.am/faq
Site: pc.am
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AI Control — where to find it

The first of the four services in the previous post is at https://aicontrol.pc.am

It runs Claude-powered agents on your Windows PCs and Android phones, and accepts PCN for balance top-ups — so the same phone that mines can pay for what it uses.

All four services, with links: https://pc.am/#spend
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PCoin v1.2.6 released

v1.2.6

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.2.6

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.2.7 released

v1.2.7 — Android wallet

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.2.7

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.2.8 released

v1.2.8 — Android wallet

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.2.8

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.0 released

PCoin v1.3.0 — pool mining

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.0

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin (PCN) — CoinMarketCap listing request

We have submitted PCoin to CoinMarketCap. The ticket number is 1446171, filed from pcoin@pc.am.

This post exists so that CoinMarketCap can verify the request genuinely comes from the project rather than from someone impersonating it. That check is why they ask for a public post from an account linked on the project's own website.

Verify us independently:
• Website — https://pc.am
• Block explorer — https://explorer.pc.am
• Source code — https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin
• News & releases — https://pc.am/news/

For clarity: PCN is not traded on any exchange, so there is no price or volume. The request is for a Preview / Untracked listing only.
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The PCoin mining pool is open.

Until now mining PCN meant solo: you find a whole 50 PCN block, or you find nothing, and a small CPU can wait days between wins. The pool pays you for the work you actually did.

Connect:
pool.pc.am:3333

The part worth understanding: you are paid directly out of the coinbase of every block the pool finds. There is no pool wallet, no private key on the server, no withdrawal to request and no balance an operator could disappear with. The chain pays you, not us.

• PPLNS, 2% fee taken off the block reward
• Minimum payout 0.00000294 PCN — the network dust limit, not a threshold we invented
• Your login is your payout address. No registration, no account
• Needs v1.3.0 or newer — both the node and bitcoin-cli

Live stats and the exact command for your OS: https://pool.pc.am

Two honest notes. A pool does not increase your earnings — it reduces variance, and after the fee you earn slightly less on average than solo. And PCN is still not traded on any exchange, so there is no price; treat it as worth nothing until a real market exists. Solo mining keeps working exactly as before if you prefer it.

Details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5591113.0
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The PCoin mining pool is open

Mining alone is a lottery. Your computer either finds a whole block and earns the full 50 PCN, or it finds nothing — there is no partial credit, and a typical PC can wait days between wins. Most people install a miner, see zero for a week, and conclude it is broken.

The pool fixes that. You are paid for the work you did, whether or not you were the lucky one.

HOW TO JOIN — no new software

Pool mining is built into the PCoin node itself, from v1.3.0. One line:

pcoin-cli startpoolmining "pool.pc.am:3333" "<your pc1q… address>" 0

0 means every core. On Windows use bitcoin-cli.exe the same way.

One thing to get right: that command does not survive a restart on its own. Both the Windows tray and the Linux service re-issue SOLO mining when they start, so unless you also add the pool to your miner config, your machine quietly goes back to paying its own address after the next reboot. The one line to add is on the website.

Full instructions: https://pc.am/#pool

HOW IT PAYS

You are paid as an output of the block you helped find. The pool never holds your coins — there is no wallet on the pool, no withdrawal to request, and no balance an operator could walk away with. The chain pays you directly, every block, automatically.

• PPLNS, weighted by how hard each share was, so timing your arrival gains nothing
• 2% fee, taken off the block reward, never off coins already paid to you
• no minimum payout beyond the network dust limit

A freshly mined reward cannot be spent by anyone — pool or solo — until it is 100 blocks deep, roughly 17 hours. That is a rule of the chain, not a delay the pool invents.

BEING HONEST ABOUT IT

A pool does not increase your earnings. It reduces variance, and after the fee you earn slightly less on average than mining alone. What you are buying is predictability.

It also concentrates hashrate, which on a network this small is a real risk rather than a theoretical one. We publish the pool hashrate and the network hashrate at https://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.

Solo mining is unchanged and still fully supported. If you are large enough to find blocks regularly, it is the better choice — and it is what keeps deciding which transactions go into blocks spread across many hands.
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PCoin v1.3.1 released

v1.3.1 — Android: refuse to mine with no peers

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.1

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.2 released

v1.3.2 - Linux packaging: declare the libraries we actually link

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.2

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.3 released

v1.3.3 - Windows: app icon, and one obvious exe to run

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.3

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.5 released

v1.3.5 - Windows: the button fix that actually applies

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.5

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.6 - Windows fast mode fix

If you turned on fast mode in the Windows miner, your PC has almost certainly not been mining.

Turning fast mode on stopped the miner app being able to talk to its own node. The node itself kept running perfectly - but nothing was mined, and the Start and Stop buttons stopped working too, so a machine that was already mining could not be switched off either.

You are affected if the app says the node is not answering, or if the mining buttons do nothing at all.

Update to v1.3.6. Your wallet, payout address and settings are kept:

& (scriptblock::Create((irm https://pc.am/dl/install.ps1)))

Fast mode is safe to leave on now, and it is several times faster. It needs about 2 GB of free memory, and the first time you switch it on it spends a few minutes preparing - the miner looks idle during that, which is normal.

Downloads and checksums: https://pc.am/download/
PCoin v1.3.6 released

v1.3.6 - Windows: fast mode no longer stops the miner

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.6

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.7 released

PCoin v1.3.7

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.7

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.8 released

PCoin v1.3.8

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.8

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.9 released

PCoin v1.3.9

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.9

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.10 released

PCoin v1.3.10

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.10

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.11 released

PCoin v1.3.11

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.11

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
PCoin v1.3.12 released

PCoin v1.3.12

Download and checksums: https://pc.am/#download
Release notes: https://github.com/pars5555/pcoin/releases/tag/v1.3.12

Upgrading takes a minute and needs no resync. If you run a node or a miner, please update — an old node can end up following a chain nobody else accepts.
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PCoin (PCN) — exchange listing progress

Two real steps forward this week:

1. ElectrumX servers are live for PCN (2 nodes, real SSL) — the hard prerequisite for non-custodial DEX listings.
2. The first PCN atomic swap settled end-to-end: 100 PCN for 17.5 DOGE, verified independently on both chains.

On the strength of that, we've filed for listing on Komodo DeFi Framework (formerly AtomicDEX) — a non-custodial DEX where nothing is held in a wallet you don't control. The PR is open and under review, not yet merged:
https://github.com/GLEECBTC/coins/pull/1964

Disclosure, because you should know before you trade: one address is currently finding ~62% of blocks over the last 300 (95% confidence interval 57-67%). Pool miners together account for about 34% of the same window. We track this publicly and will report it again as it changes.

The best way to change that number is more independent miners. PCoin mines on an ordinary CPU — no ASIC, no GPU needed. One command to start:
https://pc.am
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