Mining

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

At a high level the steps are:

Download the wallet from Ravencoin github, install and get a receiving address
Select a pool from the Pools list - or find one on the BitCoinTalk ANN
Download the GPU miner from GitHub links below.
Unzip, and edit config to include the pool you want to mine on and your wallet address .....go mining.
Remember starting out with power limit at 65% - 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).

AMD cards sgminer:

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

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