How to Mine Ravencoin [RVN] - Windows Guide

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Ravencoin Info

Ravencoin Website: http://www.ravencoin.org/
Coinmarketcap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ravencoin/
Announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3238497.0
Block Explorer: https://rvn.hash4.life//
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravencoin/
Telegram: https://t.me/RavencoinDev
Discord: https://discord.gg/PtEnyvH
Medium: https://medium.com/@ravencoin/ravencoin-4683cd00f83c
Mining profitability calculator: https://www.crypto-coinz.net/crypto-calculator/

Ravencoin Mining Pools

Minepool: http://www.minepool.com/
MiningPanda: https://miningpanda.site/
Suprnova: https://rvn.suprnova.cc/index.php?page=gettingstarted
YiiMP.eu: http://yiimp.eu/
CryptoPool.PARTY: https://cryptopool.party/
OminousNetwork: http://ominousnetwork.com
Virtopia: https://mineit.virtopia.ca/
Coinblockers: https://rvn.coinblockers.com/
PickAxePro: http://www.pickaxe.pro/
Krawww-Miner.eu: http://krawww-miner.eu/
Ravenminer: http://www.ravenminer.com/
Protopool: https://hash4.life/
Hash4Life: http://www.protopool.net/
Omegapool: https://www.omegapool.cc/
TheBSODPool: http://bsod.pw/

Ravencoin Markets

Dex Exchange https://crypto-bridge.org
https://nanex.co/exchange/RVNNANO
https://graviex.net/markets/rvnbtc
https://www.qbtc.com/trade

Coin Specifications:

Algorithm: X16R
Whitepaper: http://ravencoin.org/Ravencoin.pdf
Roadmap: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/blob/master/roadmap/README.md

Block Time: 1 minute
Block Reward: 5000 RVN
Block Reward halving schedule: ~4years
Total Coin Supply: 21 Billion
Block Size: 1MB (may increase in the future)

Pre-mine: No
Founders Reward: No
ICO: No
Masternodes: No
Airdrops: No
RPC port: 8766
Network port: 8767


What is Ravencoin?

Ravencoin is a digital peer to peer network that aims to implement a use case specific blockchain, designed to efficiently handle one specific function: the transfer of assets from one party to another. Built on a fork of the Bitcoin code, Ravencoin was launched January 3rd, 2018, and is a truly open source project (no ICO or masternodes). It focuses on building a useful technology, with a strong and growing community.


How to mine Ravencoin

Step 1

Download a Ravencoin Miner We'll use Suprminer for nvidia cards by ocminer .
https://github.com/ocminer/suprminer/releases
Other miners:
Nevermore Miner for nvidia cards (1% devfee by brianmct)
Windows releases : https://github.com/brian112358/nevermore-miner/releases

Tpruvot-ccminer-2.2.5 (0% devfee by tpruvot)
Windows releases : https://github.com/MSFTserver/RavenCoin-Wallet-With-Miners/releases


AMD Mining Rig Software:
Avermore Miner (optimized SGminer by brianmct, 1% devfee, ~+10% performance gain over current versions)
Github source: https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner
Windows/Linux releases: https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/releases

SGminer (by acenine)
GitHub source : https://github.com/aceneun/sgminer-gm-x16r/tree/x16r.
Windows releases : https://github.com/aceneun/sgminer-gm-x16r/releases

SGminer (by Brianmct)
GitHub source: https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r
Windows releases: https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r/releases

Step 2

Download your wallet or paperwallet
https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/tree/master/binaries/release
or Paper Wallet
https://todd1251.github.io/WalletGenerator.net/

Step 3

Run Wallet wait for it to sync be sure to backup your wallet next,
Click File select Receiving addresses create a new one name it mining , take note of your wallets address you'll need it later.
Ravencoin_Wallet_Menu_Receiving-e1521253063412.png

Step 4

Pick your mining pool.
we'll use: http://www.ravenminer.com/ currently has about 20% of network's hashrate. You can pick a pool with a higher or lower hashrate if you like.

Step 5

Now that you have your miner software, your wallets address and you have picked your mining pool & port. Lets put it all together and setup your miner.

Unzip ccminer-2.2.5-rvn-windows and locate the bat file named gpu-miner-raven right click it and select edit .
you should see something like this.

ccminer-x64.exe -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://pool.threeeyed.info:3333 -u RV6n1QuCvTYp7UbqiZf1Rua1oVxNTvPFJ5

change it to your pool and Your Wallet

example:
ccminer-x64.exe -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://ravenminer.com:3366 -u RV6n1QuCvTYp7UbqiZf1Rua1oVxNTvPFJ5 -p dworker1

do not mine to example address you will not be paid it will be considered a donation thank you.

Save and Exit.

Step 6

Double click the gpu-miner-raven.bat file your miner should open and start mining!

check your mining stats by entering address here :
http://www.ravenminer.com/?address=


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I have been using Ravenminer v2.6
Source: https://github.com/Ravencoin-Miner/Ravencoin/releases

Not an endorsement (and always be suspicious of 3rd party software/code). I have found it to be pretty stable and a good performer.

thank you I'll check it out

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