How to Mine Ravencoin [RVN] - Windows Guide

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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.

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