Mining

There's a number of useful videos on how to mine Ravencoin. Possibly two of the best are:

• Crypto Explorer - setting up wallet and starting mining
• BitsBeTripping - So what is x16r Algo, how can you mine it? Ravencoin Deep Dive

Get started:

1. Download the wallet from Ravencoin github, install and get a receiving address, be sure to backup wallet.
2. Select a pool from the Pools page - or find one on the BitCoinTalk ANN Small or Big pool does not matter, it will average out over time. Help the network by spreading the hash to a small or medium pool. Check pool sizes on rvnstats.
3. Download the GPU miner from GitHub links below.
4. Unzip, and edit config to include the pool you want to mine on and your wallet address .....go mining.
5. Remember starting out with power limit at 65% to 85% and stock settings on core and memory. x16r spikes in power draw, be sure to have headroom on your PSU and connect your risers correctly
6. Once stability is reached try raising core in +10 or +25 steps and recheck for stability. Memory OC does little on x16r and is commonly set to default or -500 for a bit more headroom.
7. To get miner to auto start on reboot press ' win + r ' and type in ' shell:startup ' then copy shortcut of your bat file into startup folder.

Please DO NOT MINE with your payout address set to an exchange. The extra miner traffic is causing system issues for DEXs.

Nvidia cards ccminer:

• Nevermore brian112358 (Optimized 25% faster version of original ccminer 2.2.5. Compiled version includes a 1% dev fee).
• Suprminer ocminer. Fork of Nevermore, no devfee.
• ccminer 2.2.5 MSFTserver. This was the first full GPU miner for x16r, it is superseded by the miners above.

Example for nvidia cards (wallet is dev fund donation):

ccminer -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://stratum.threeeyed.info:3333 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p C=RVN -N 600

common flags:

-N 600 , --statsavg number of samples used to display hashrate (default: 30) Gives a better display of average hashrate.
-q , --quiet disable per-thread hashmeter output
-r 5 , --retries=N       number of times to retry if a network call fails (default: retry indefinitely) Needed for simple failover script.
-i 20 , --intensity=N[,N] GPU threads per call 8-25 (2^N + F, default: 0=auto) Decimals and multiple values are allowed for fine tuning
-d 0,1,2,3 , --devices         gives a comma separated list of CUDA device IDs to operate on. Device IDs start counting from 0! Alternatively give string names of your card like gtx780ti or gt640#2 (matching 2nd gt640 in the PC).

All the flags for ccminer/nevermore

Failover script:

:MINE
ccminer -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://stratum.threeeyed.info:3333 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,,titanv -i 20 -r 5 -N 600
ccminer -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://miningpanda.site:3636 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,,titanv -i 20 -r 3 -N 600
ccminer -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://cryptopool.party:3636 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,,titanv -r 3 -N 600
ccminer -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.eu:3666 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,titanv -i 20 -r 3 -N 600
GOTO :MINE

or in one line:

ccminer -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://stratum.threeeyed.info:3333 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,titanv -o stratum+tcp://miningpanda.site:3636 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,titanv -i 20 -o stratum+tcp://cryptopool.party:3636 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,titanv -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.eu:3666 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p c=RVN,titanv -N 600

Seal Clubber's failover script

AMD cards sgminer:

• sgminer 5.5.5-gm-a acenine.
• sgminer 5.5.6-brianmct brian112358.

Example for amd cards (wallet is dev fund donation):

sgminer -k x16r -o stratum+tcp://stratum.threeeyed.info:3333 -u RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV -p C=RVN 

common flags:

--gpu-platform 1 , Sets GPU platform. --gpu-platform 2 ,for only amd cards.
-I 20 , Intensity of GPU scanning. A lower value, will free up resources if you want to use your GPU for other task as well.
-g 2 ,or --g 2 , set threads pr gpu, can give higher hashrate if your cpu can handle it.
-d 0,1,2,3 , Devices specify what cards to use.
--thread-concurrency 1024 , Number of concurrent threads per GPU for mining. One value or a comma (,) delimited list.
--config failover.conf  load a config file

Github has all the flags

BBT Carter shows us how to get RX 580s to 8 MH/s BitsBeTrippin Youtube

Failover config, make a file named failover.conf in the same folder as the bat file, with the following format, remember to add ' --config failover.conf ' in bat file :

{
 "pools": [
   {
     "name": "Raven three eyed",
     "nfactor": "10",
     "algorithm": "x16r",
     "quota": "1;stratum+tcp://stratum.threeeyed.info:3333",
     "user": "RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV",
     "pass": "c=RVN,titanV"
   },
   {
     "name": "Raven Yiimp",
     "nfactor": "10",
     "algorithm": "x16r",
     "quota": "1;stratum+tcp://yiimp.eu:3666",
     "user": "RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV",
     "pass": "c=RVN,titanV"
   },
   {
     "name": "Raven minepool",
     "nfactor": "10",
     "algorithm": "x16r",
     "quota": "1;stratum+tcp://minepool.com:3636",
     "user": "RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH.titanV",
     "pass": "c=RVN,titanV"
   }
 ],
 "api-port": "4028",
 "failover-only": true
}

Example bat file with configured failover:

sgminer --config failover.conf --gpu-platform 1 -g 2 -I 19

Helpful links:

Brian has wiki pages on github for his miners.

• nevermore wiki Nevermore-wiki
• sgminer wiki Sgminer-wiki-Get-Started
• How to solomine with Nevermore, available from version 0.2 Solo wiki Network hash / your hash = average mins to find a block. Not recommended unless you have at least 0,5% of network hash.

If it is not working try our Troubleshoot page.

Ravencoin calculator

Excel sheet for calculating how many coins pr MH/s Seal Clubber's xlsx

There is a comprehensive article on virtopia.ca to help you get started mining Ravencoin.

1stminingrig has a Guide to mine Ravencoin.

Guide for AWS -EC2 compatible Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu multi miner

Make sure you're downloading software from trusted sources. There have been reports of some miners possibly including malware, whilst this isn't confirmed it's down to you to exercise caution installing anything on your machines. The GitHub links in the steps above to Ravencoin, MSFTserver and the AMD miners have been used by lots in the community and are generally trusted.

There's some great guides on Ravencoin Forum:

https://ravenforum.org/topic/15/mine-raven-with-awesome-miner

https://ravenforum.org/topic/17/sgminer-a-troubleshooting-guide

More information:

Why mine Ravencoin

Ravencoin Youtube playlist by Crypto Explorer how to get started and beyond with Ravencoin

BitsBeTrippin - So what is x16r Algo, how can you mine it? Ravencoin Deep Dive

BitsBeTrippin - SGMiner for x16r Ravencoin RVN - Testing a RX Vega 64

Ravencoin Stats

Ravencoin Explorer

Donate Script

Want to help fund the development?

@echo off
rem || User Options!
set Pool=stratum+tcp://pool.threeeyed.info:3333
set User=your-address
set ExtraOptions=rigname,stats
set YourTime=3600
set DonationTime=300
set DonationAddress=RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH
:Start
ccminer.exe -a x16r -o %Pool% -u %User% -p %ExtraOptions% --time-limit %YourTime%
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
ccminer.exe -a x16r -o %Pool% -u %DonationAddress% -p %ExtraOptions% --time-limit %DonationTime%
goto Start
@pause