# Meet Luxor, the first mining pool to mine shielded coinbase

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/meet-luxor-the-first-mining-pool-to-mine-shielded-coinbase/37174>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [August 26, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/meet-luxor-the-first-mining-pool-to-mine-shielded-coinbase/37174 "2020-08-26T18:28:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![aserrano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/aserrano/32/14322_2.png) [@aserrano](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/aserrano)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/meet-luxor-the-first-mining-pool-to-mine-shielded-coinbase/37174/1 "2020-08-26T18:28:44Z")

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Dear Zcashers:

I’d like to introduce you to Nick Hansen, CEO of the Luxor Mining Pool. Luxor has been a long-time supporter of Zcash. They were one of the first to enable shielded payouts to their miners and recently mined the first shielded coinbase block, which occurred at block height #949496.

You can see the transaction here: [https://explorer.zcha.in/blocks/949496](https://explorer.zcha.in/blocks/949496)

This is an important moment for Zcash. Luxor is responsible for approximately 8% of hashpower on the Zcash network and their switch to shielded coinbase improves the privacy for the entire network. Feel free to give them a warm welcome!

@GuzmanLuxor @nitronick600

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**Author:** ![nitronick600](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dc4da7/32.png) [@nitronick600](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/nitronick600)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/meet-luxor-the-first-mining-pool-to-mine-shielded-coinbase/37174/2 "2020-08-26T20:48:51Z")

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Happy to continue progressing ZCash and enabling the ZCash community!

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**Author:** ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/meet-luxor-the-first-mining-pool-to-mine-shielded-coinbase/37174/3 "2020-08-26T21:00:57Z")

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Welcome, glad you got to be the first! Hopefully more will follow your example :zcash: ❤