A year ago today, we mined the first block and set in motion a progressive realization of a worthwhile dream and goal. The decentralization of mining pools. Though supported on our platform, we are still mining decentralized! So let’s start off by wishing Pexa a happy birthday!
Year at a glance
This last year has been an amazing success for Pexa. We’ve successfully mined our first block on our platform from a community member (and mined many more).
First off, for those tech-savy individuals, you can deploy a mining pool now and connect it to your locally run wallet and start mining! There are still some kinks we are working out and plan to add support for deploying coins or sharing coin daemons on our platform.
We’ve also added the ability to purchase a domain name on the platform and attach it to your mining pool! You can attach up to 5 domains and custom domains to your pool.
This feature has taken us a couple months to build, and it gives the user more flexibility in how they manage their hostnames to their mining pool. Every hostname you add, and once the DNS Domain name system) is verified or auto-updated by our system, automatically fetches SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates for all your stratum domains as well as the main pool client.
This last year, we’ve also talked with T-Rex miner to assist us in testing to add SNI support to their miner. Some miners already have SNI support, and some do not.
We’ve also created an amazing cloud-stratum-proxy that you can run and proxy your mining packets to any server on the Pexa cloud platform. With the introduction of this cloud proxy, you can use any miner, and run this small process on a small machine or VM to redirect all your mining packets. Without SNI, you will not be able to reach your stratum on our back end services.
This last year we went through a couple hard forks as well. We’ve recently updated our wallet to v1.7.0. For more information about this move please read this article.
We have also successfully entered into the private testnet of VBK into Pexa. More details covering this soon as well!
We also acquired the GitHub username ‘pexa’, and moved our repository from the `pexacoin` base.
Stay tuned for more updates and articles! We’ve also got some video tutorials coming out soon to show how to get everything up and running!
Ways to Support the Project and Development
If you love what we’re doing you can support the project a number of ways. You can donate to one of the addresses below, or head on over and check out Star Citizen and purchase a ship package to feed my Star Citizen addition use code STAR-652H-XZHC to get 5000 free in-game credits.
BTC: 39hB2U3Z9Xzd9AxLerARuscbDkiQHn8bpy
LTC: MEp2yGFTmZBVU1vnzgwzpWrwspsoLkeh6c
ETH: 0x0e56e109A4Fbc98a0A6Df4320F04EDEc1987e94A
ETC: 0x37ee6C3E22c734DfAA53A006D4D4B36136fCA26d
PEXA: XDix8fDzYk7nfjG8vD52tPuP2zXWkKUDVi
Links and Community Participation
To participate in the community, please follow us on twitter and join the Discord channel.
Discord: https://discord.gg/TZRJ3xp
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pexacoin
Dev’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanmhein
Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/pexacoin
Official Website: https://pexaproject.com
Official Roadmap: https://pexaproject.com/roadmap/board/pexa-pool
Pexa Coin Core Releases: https://github.com/pexa/core/releases
