diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 2c89dab..22bff13 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Version 1.6.1  (in progress)
 * cleaner mempool and notification handling
 * aiohttp min version requirement raised to 2.0
 * onion peers are ignored if no tor proxy is available
-* add Motion coin (ocruzv)
+* add Motion coin (ocruzv), MinexCoin (joesixpack)
 
 Version 1.6  (19 July 2018)
 ===========================
diff --git a/electrumx/lib/coins.py b/electrumx/lib/coins.py
index 6461c8f..9b7cc48 100644
--- a/electrumx/lib/coins.py
+++ b/electrumx/lib/coins.py
@@ -1923,3 +1923,52 @@ class Monoeci(Coin):
                 '''Given a header return the hash.'''
                 import x11_hash
                 return x11_hash.getPoWHash(header)
+
+
+class MinexcoinMixin(object):
+    STATIC_BLOCK_HEADERS = True
+    BASIC_HEADER_SIZE = 209
+    DESERIALIZER = lib_tx.DeserializerEquihash
+
+    @classmethod
+    def electrum_header(cls, header, height):
+        version, = struct.unpack('<I', header[:4])
+        timestamp, bits = struct.unpack('<II', header[100:108])
+
+        return {
+            'block_height': height,
+            'version': version,
+            'prev_block_hash': hash_to_hex_str(header[4:36]),
+            'merkle_root': hash_to_hex_str(header[36:68]),
+            'timestamp': timestamp,
+            'bits': bits,
+            'nonce': hash_to_hex_str(header[108:140]),
+            'solution': hash_to_hex_str(header[140:209]),
+        }
+
+    @classmethod
+    def block_header(cls, block, height):
+        '''Return the block header bytes'''
+        deserializer = cls.DESERIALIZER(block)
+        return deserializer.read_header(height, 140)
+
+
+class Minexcoin(MinexcoinMixin, Coin):
+    NAME = "Minexcoin"
+    SHORTNAME = "MNX"
+    NET = "mainnet"
+    P2PKH_VERBYTE = bytes.fromhex("4b")
+    P2SH_VERBYTES = [bytes.fromhex("05")]
+    WIF_BYTE = bytes.fromhex("80")
+    GENESIS_HASH = ('490a36d9451a55ed197e34aca7414b35'
+                    'd775baa4a8e896f1c577f65ce2d214cb')
+    DESERIALIZER = lib_tx.DeserializerEquihash
+    TX_COUNT = 327963
+    TX_COUNT_HEIGHT = 74495
+    TX_PER_BLOCK = 5
+    RPC_PORT = 8022
+    CHUNK_SIZE = 960
+    PEERS = [
+        'elex01-ams.turinex.eu s t',
+        'eu.minexpool.nl s t'
+    ]
diff --git a/tests/blocks/minexcoin_mainnet_170999.json b/tests/blocks/minexcoin_mainnet_170999.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6b26e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/blocks/minexcoin_mainnet_170999.json
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{
+  "hash": "000000000306a0d2c7195523a39fb0aaa20a5a91261f8db96644bf44d80f7755",
+  "strippedsize": 3638,
+  "size": 3638,
+  "weight": 14552,
+  "height": 170999,
+  "version": 536870912,
+  "versionHex": "20000000",
+  "merkleroot": "6b4ad9c9837c3818b3046bd310733a0d72da10faaeb4ae99f74e8f891942d88c",
+  "tx": [
+    "baee13240981c78eade7f89b9b9489259320b2ed4b68fdfe28a0b8c2ec8eb1b3",
+    "9e501897aa65d1acb74b9d4dc40add1b64cd112b32cc4cd7389b5106c344760a",
+    "661a9c7dc6e0f24e1ffe0f49e98ba11255c1d753e2f65caf946a4d2db7532db0",
+    "0af160913312b26beb1fbee6ac5d18645a1901ea7a9fbd61bd089ac5448dcebf",
+    "98b63c1d39d7bbebcb741647e057caa430a094ae80a276837dca1b0d62191bd3"
+  ],
+  "time": 1532157627,
+  "mediantime": 1532156460,
+  "nonce": "9ba08b8c040000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e4ffff4f",
+  "bits": "1c3e0628",
+  "difficulty": 4.127368377546984,
+  "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000073e907f659708",
+  "previousblockhash": "00000000236ce9f5a8b5ee46c5068a0924ed5a1f193a1c0acaa4e5e64b7e554b",
+  "nextblockhash": "0000000034a769f6ef3f091d725188429276c7a88f3883b9badadee7d321712b",
+  "block": 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