[AMD & nVidia] How to mine Raven (RVN) ?

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What is RavenCoin?

What is Ravencoin? To us, the RVN community, it's a new open-source project intended to see if a use case specific blockchain designed to be focused on the transfer of assets can develop technology which provides security or functional advantages for certain projects. Specifically working on things like RSK, which will allow Solidity to work on this chain, will be huge for Ravencoin in the future. RVN was launched January 3rd 2018 with very little info regarding the future of the project. Since then, several community members have learned that there is an active development team on this coin, and the super clean wallet client and lightning fast network are only the beginning. The RVN team is launching their coin in the spirit of Bitcoin, code first. We hope to keep you updated in this thread as to work being done on RVN, as that information becomes available to us. But you don't need to wait for us, or take our word for it.

Ravencoin IS open source, and ANYONE is free to contribute to the project, please, join the team in GitHub!

Ravencoin was launched in the interest of fair distribution. There is no ICO, no pre-mine, and you can mine RVN on readily available consumer grade hardware! Several of us have been mining this coin since launch, and can attest that you can still currently hit blocks solo mining with your CPU through the wallet client, how long this will last, we can not say (Update: as of this writing February 2018, 6 RVN pools exist, solo mining has officially become difficult). We have learned, however, that the team is very dedicated to making RVN an ASIC resistant project now and into the future. We believe in RVN as a project and aim to help the project grow, and we're happy to have you join us!

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Ravencoin was launched to the world January 3rd, 2018 publicly. It was the vision of the developers to launch the coin with minimal advertising. This ANN was created 11 days later by the community in an effort to spread awareness for the project. During those 11 days between launch and this posting, approx. 0.005% of the total RVN supply was mined, publicly, by those who were aware of the project leading up to launch on January 3rd.

During Ravencoins launch weekend 1300 miners began mining the first RVN blocks, that number then climbed 4300 miners within the first week. All miners fairly participated in RavenCoin's public launch prior to this community lead ANN.

Algorithm: X16R
Whitepaper:
https://ravencoin.org/wp-content/upload ... epaper.pdf (new!)

Block Time: 1 minute

Block Reward: 5000 RVN

Total Coin Supply: 21 Billion

Founders Reward: No

ICO: Hell no.

RPC port: 8766

AddNode:
Complete Node List: http://threeeyed.info/network

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Statistics:
https://www.rvnstats.info/
(credit: teh_director)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2752467.0


How to mine RavenCoin on a mining pool ?

1. Create a wallet address
You'll need a wallet to receive the Raven coins mined. It is better to download the official wallet according to your Operating System. Create a paper wallet is possible for Raven, see here below. There is another crappy quick and dirty method that we don't recommend: create a wallet address on an exchange but many exchange diagree and may lost some coins.

Wallets/Clients:
Linux/Mac/Windows:
https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravenco ... es/release

Paper Wallet:
https://github.com/todd1251/WalletGener ... /ravencoin
(Credit to Penfold for the paper wallet)

Please refer to the Download section of the official bitcointalk thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2752467.0
Or use the official github repository:
https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravenco ... es/release


[nVidia] 2. Miner for nVidia cards (x16r)
For nVidia cards, we suggest you CCminer : https://github.com/MSFTserver/ccminer/r ... /2.2.5-rvn (Credit: tpruvot, and MSFTserver for hosting)
Alternative to ccminer : https://github.com/brian112358/nevermore-miner/releases

For AMD cards, see here below.

Remark: some anti-virus and anti-malware may detect the miner as a virus. It is due to the fact that miners were integrated in malwares and virusses so some anti-virus detect the miner as a potentially dangerous component. We use these binaries since years: we've never encounter problems because we avoid to download any binaries and always use the offial binary release on bitcointalk or github.

[nVidia] 3. Configure ccminer batch file and launch it
3.1 Create a new launch file ("mine RVN on unimining.bat" using notepad or notepad++ under windows) and paste the following command into it:

ccminer-x64 -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://x16r.eu1.unimining.net:3636 -u donate -p c=RVN

Please note the following arguments to the miner ccminer (64 bits version for my OS):
-a x16r : set the algorithm
-o stratum+tcp://x16r.eu1.unimining.net:3636 : set the mining pool URL and stratum port
-u donate : wallet address used as username. Please remove donate and write your own address created at step 1
-p c=RVN : optional (password) parameters. -p is used to give the password related to the username. As mining is anonymous, the password is used to pass optional arguments. c=RVN is used to force YiiMP to mine RavenCoin (RVN is the symbol defined on the pool for Raven) : YiiMP should detect the crypto-currency mined according to the wallet address but as coins are forks of other coins (and some don't adapt address' code), it doesn't always work as expected. So we recommand to always set the coin with at least the optional parameter c (ex: c=RVN).. stats is used to perform a benchmark of your GPU (first GPU on multi-GPU) on the 50st share. To add several parameter, seperate them by commas, e.g. -p c=RVN,stats to set the coin as RavenCoin and perform benchmark
--cpu-priority=3 : parameter used to set the cpu priority.
3.2 Launch the *.bat file and check wallets' page after 5 to 10 minutes.


[AMD] 2. Miner for AMD cards (x16r)
For AMD cards, you can download the sgminer fork of aceneum or the fork of brian112358 according to your Operating System:
GitHub source : https://github.com/aceneun/sgminer-gm-x16r/tree/x16r.
Windows releases : https://github.com/aceneun/sgminer-gm-x16r/releases.

sgminer -o stratum+tcp://x16r.eu1.unimining.net:3636 -u donate -p c=RVN

brianmct's fork of sgminer:
GitHub source : https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r.
Windows releases : https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r/releases.
Getting Started wiki : https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r/wiki.

Please take care of your AMD graphic cards drivers.


3.3. Launch the *.bat file and check wallets' page after 5 to 10 minutes.

Remark: As x16r is 16 different algos in random order, your hashrate will vary over time.