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# Select a pool from the '''[[Pools]]''' page. Broadly speaking, your mining rewards should average out over time, whether you join a large pool or a small one. Please consider pointing your miner(s) at smaller pools so as to distribute the hashrate and improve network health/security. You can [https://ravencoin.network/pools check pool sizes here]. Choosing a pool near your geographic location is suggested.
# Download a GPU miner. Several are available, but for the purposes of this quick start guide, we are going to use official open-source miner [https://github.com/RavenCommunity/kawpowminer/releases kawpowminer], There are other miners available, like [https://github.com/trexminer/t-rex/releases T-Rex] (Nvidia), [https://github.com/NebuTech/NBMiner/releases NBMiner] (Nvidia+AMD), [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5025783.0 TT-Miner] (Nvidia), [https://github.com/develsoftware/GMinerRelease/releases GMiner] (Nvidia), [https://github.com/nanopool/nanominer/releases nanominer] (AMD). Please note that all of those alternative miners are closed source and should be used at your own risk. Best practice: do not use closed source mining software on a machine containing personal or sensitive data.
# Extract the kawpowminer folder, there is no .bat file included, so we'll have to make one ourselves. Create a text-file, and rename it to RVN.bat (make sure it's not RVN.bat.txt - you may have to [https://www.howtogeek.com/205086/beginner-how-to-make-windows-show-file-extensions/ disable "hide extensions for known file types"] on Windows). Edit the newly created .bat (right click the file and select edit).
kawpowminer -U -P stratum+tcp://<WALLET_ADDR><.WORKER><:PASSWORD>@pool.bsod.pwHOSTNAME:2640PORT
pause
Replace values in <> with yours. Worker and password are optional. For AMD use -P instead of -U. Use the hostname and port that your pool provided you.
# Double-click "RVN.bat" in the kawpowminer folder. After a brief delay, text should begin scrolling (and your GPU(s) will begin generating a bit of heat and noise). If your configuration is correct, you will see your hashrate displayed in Megahash per second (MHs). Otherwise, any errors will display and you may need to reconfigure appropriately.
# If you cannot resolve these issues through your own research/trial and error, consider reaching out to the community of miners on our Discord or Telegram servers (linked above).
When troubleshooting it is helpful to have pause at the end of our bat file, so you can see the errors from console.
kawpowminer -U -P stratum+tcp://RQZS8LBvv2VWuAEWF5BXoRikoG6MRp5asH.test:x@pool.bsod.pwHOSTNAME:2640PORT
pause
