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 list - or find one on the BitCoinTalk ANN
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.

Nvidia cards ccminer:

• ccminer 2.2.5 MSFTserver.
• nevermore brian112358 (Optimised version of original ccminer. Compiled version includes a 1% dev fee, alpha release at time of writing).

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

common flags:

-N 300 , --statsavg number of samples used to display hashrate (default: 30) Gives a better display average of 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

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
-I 20 , Intensity
-g 2 ,or --g 2 , set threads pr gpu, can give higher hashrate if your cpu can handle it.

Helpful links:

Brian has wiki pages on github for his miners.

• nevermore wiki Nevermore-wiki
• sgminer wiki Sgminer-wiki-Get-Started

If it is not working try our Troubleshoot page.

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

1stminingrig has a Guide to mine Ravencoin.

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

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

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

Ravencoin Stats

Ravencoin Explorer