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.
Live from /api/pools, the same endpoint mining directories read. Nothing on this page is typed in by hand.
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.
PCoin Pool$P = if (Test-Path C:\PCoin\bitcoin-cli.exe) { 'C:\PCoin' } else { "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\PCoin" }
& "$P\bitcoin-cli.exe" -datadir="$P\data" `
startpoolmining "pool.pc.am:3333" "<your pc1q… address>" 4sudo systemctl stop pcoin-miner # or it will pull you back to solo
sudo -u pcoin pcoin-cli -datadir=/var/lib/pcoin \
startpoolmining "pool.pc.am:3333" "<your pc1q… address>" 4The last number is threads; 0 means every core. stopmining stops it.
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.pc.am:3333 --wallet <your pc1q… address> --cpu-threads 4CPU 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 2%. It is third-party software: take it only from its GitHub releases page and check the published checksum.
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.pc.am:3333 -u <your pc1q… address> -a rx/pcoin -t 4No 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.
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.
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.
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.
| 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 | 2% — 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.pc.am:3333 — plain TCP. There is no TLS port yet |
| Login | Your payout address. No registration, no worker names, no account |