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Yes you can mine with your CPU however you're unlikely to earn many Ravencoin. The net hash is now pretty large so a single CPU isn't going to contribute much. Obviously, if you've got a lot of CPU's or high-end ones you many may earn more. Generally, people are running GPU's in one of the [[Pools]].

=== What hash rate should be I be getting for my cards? ===

All the [[Pools]] are pretty good, and as with most things tech , they all have issues from time to time. On average you'll get a larger share of fewer blocks with the smaller pools and a smaller share of more blocks with the larger pools. There are support channels for most of the pools on discord. The pools can be compared [https://rvnstats.info/dashboard/db/x16r-ravencoin-mining-pool-statistics-v0-1?refresh=1m&orgId=1 here].

Mining on a big pool will give us many tiny payouts, vs mining on a small pool will give us fewer large payouts. Overtime Over time it will average out and we will earn the same amount of coins.

A good recommendation when choosing a pool is any pool not in the top 3 highest hashrate, but any other pool with at least around 0,5% of network hash rate so the pool will hit some blocks each day. Or if we want to help build up a tiny pool, go for a an even smaller one.

Payouts come form from a block found by the pool that we have valid shares on. After a block is found it needs to be confirmed by the 100 next blocks, and since block time is 1min for Ravencoin this is about 100 mins. Coins are called immature while being confirmed. Once the coins are confirmed they are spendable, and will be paid out by the pool on the next payout cycle. Coins are often called matured coins at this stage.