Mine PCoin here, get paid every block

Solo mining is a lottery — a whole 50 PCN block or nothing, and a small CPU can wait days. This pool pays you for the work you actually did, out of the coinbase of every block it finds.

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Network

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Blocks found

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Live from /api/pools, the same endpoint mining directories read. Nothing on this page is typed in by hand.

My stats

Paste your payout address to see your own shares and hashrate, read from the same ledger the payouts are computed from. The lookup only answers about the address you type — there is no list of miners here, and nothing about you is stored.

Connect

You do not need separate mining software — it is built into the PCoin node. You do need v1.3.0 or newer, and both the node and bitcoin-cli must be that version: an older CLI sends the thread count as text and the call fails with a type error even against a new node. Downloads.

Windows (PowerShell)

$P = if (Test-Path C:\PCoin\bitcoin-cli.exe) { 'C:\PCoin' } else { "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\PCoin" }
& "$P\bitcoin-cli.exe" -datadir="$P\data" `
  startpoolmining "pool.ion.cool:33341" "<your pc1q… address>" 4

Linux

sudo systemctl stop pcoin-miner        # or it will pull you back to solo
sudo -u pcoin pcoin-cli -datadir=/var/lib/pcoin \
  startpoolmining "pool.ion.cool:33341" "<your pc1q… address>" 4

The last number is threads; 0 means every core. stopmining stops it.

Already have a mining rig? Use SRBMiner-Multi.

SRBMiner-Multi mines PCN natively from version 3.5.6 (17 August 2026) with the randompcn algorithm — Windows, Linux and HiveOS custom miner, no PCoin node, no sync and no wallet on the machine. Verified against this pool on 2 September 2026: connects, receives work, shares accepted.

SRBMiner-MULTI --disable-gpu --algorithm randompcn --pool pool.ion.cool:33341 --wallet <your pc1q… address> --cpu-threads 4

CPU only. SRBMiner charges its own 0.85% developer fee on this algorithm, which goes to its author and not to us, on top of this pool's 1%. It is third-party software: take it only from its GitHub releases page and check the published checksum.

Already running xmrig?

An rx/pcoin algorithm is an open pull request to xmrigCC, not reviewed or merged yet. If you would rather stay on xmrig than switch to SRBMiner, there is an unofficial Linux build with checksums: rx-pcoin-v1.

./xmrigMiner -o pool.ion.cool:33341 -u <your pc1q… address> -a rx/pcoin -t 4

No Windows xmrig build from us: cross-compiling needs a UCRT mingw toolchain that Ubuntu does not ship. On Windows use SRBMiner above, the node's miner, or build the branch with MSVC.

If you tried xmrig here before 16 Aug and got nothing, that was our bug.

This pool rejected every share from a standard xmrig with "share above target", while the miner hashed perfectly. It rebuilt the submitted header with the nonce bytes in the opposite order to the xmrig convention, so it was hashing a header nobody had mined. Our node's miner and this pool were written from the same wrong assumption, so they agreed with each other and nothing looked broken until a third-party miner existed. Both byte orders are accepted now — worth retrying.

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.

Use a pc1q… address.

Taproot pc1p… addresses pass the node's own check and are then refused by the pool. The address is simply where you are credited — no wallet is opened and no private key is involved on that machine. Your node also does not need to be synced first, because the pool supplies the block.

Miners: what was tested against this pool

SRBMiner-MULTI `randompcn`	Works — tested. Re-run against this pool on 12 October 2026: three minutes with `--algorithm randompcn` moved the pool's own share counter from 5034 to 5045 — 11 accepted shares, none rejected. It repeats the 2 September run quoted under Connect rather than replacing it
PCoin node, built-in miner `startpoolmining`	The project's own path, spelled out under Connect. It sits outside this timed run: it needs a synced node on the machine, which is a different kind of setup from pointing a miner at a stratum port
xmrigCC fork `rx/pcoin`	Not verified by us. The algorithm is still an open, unreviewed pull request and the only build we know of is a third-party Linux release — see Connect for the history of what went wrong here with xmrig before

The number belongs to the pool, not to the miner.

Each figure above is the change in the pool's share counter across a timed run. A miner cheerfully printing accepted while the pool discards the share is precisely the failure this method is built to expose.

How it pays

Scheme	PPLNS — a block pays the most recent window of work, weighted by how hard each share was
Payout	Direct from each block's coinbase. No pool wallet, no private key on the server, no withdrawal to request, and no balance an operator could walk away with
Fee	1% — taken off the block reward before anything is split
Minimum	0.00000294 PCN, the network dust limit. Below it you are skipped for that block, your shares stay in the window, and the amount goes to the other miners rather than the pool
Stratum	`pool.ion.cool:33341` — plain TCP. There is no TLS port yet
Login	Your payout address. No registration, no worker names, no account

Things worth knowing before you start

A pool does not increase your earnings. It reduces variance. After the fee you earn slightly less on average than solo. What you buy is predictability.
Coins are locked for 100 blocks. About 17 hours at the 10-minute target; the explorer shows the current pace. That is a consensus rule, not something the pool invents — it applies to solo miners identically.
An orphaned block erases its payouts. It happens on a young network. The work was real; the block was not.
PCN is not traded on any exchange. The one way out is the wrap desk (PCN → wPCN, 250 PCN per person while it is new, 5% fee, by hand) and a small PancakeSwap pool for wPCN that follows the posted price. Treat PCN as worth nothing until a real market exists.
A pool concentrates hashrate, and on a network this small that is a real risk. The pool's share of the network is shown above, from the API, so you can check it rather than take our word — and we would rather see a second pool run by somebody else than grow this one.