Ravencoin RVN is GPU mineable again thanks to KAWPOW!
Long story short Ravencoin is a mineable cryptocurrency that was originally GPU mined, and later ASIC and FPGA miners took over their network. Ravencoin has now hardforked or changed their mining algorithm to KAWPOW which is basically a tweaked version of ProgPoW, a mining algorithm that seeks to allow GPU and ASIC mining rigs mine effectively on the same network. There are no current known KAWPOW ASIC miners, so for awhile GPU mining will be profitable on Ravencoin.
You can checkout our GPU mining rigs mining Ravencoin on F2Pool here.
Best GPU for mining Ravencoin profitably - https://geni.us/sXLs
Watch our video guide on how to mine Ravencoin on KAWPOW in 2020
Remember before you can begin mining Ravencoin RVN, you need a Ravencoin wallet address!
Personally we are mining to a cryptocurrency exchange, like BinanceUS and Crypto.com.
You can use a multi-coin wallet that supports Ravencoin, we like ZelCore, download here.
You can use the official Ravencoin wallet, which you can download here.
Download the Voskage one-click Windows Ravencoin mining package for Nvidia and AMD here!
All you have to do is click the zMine_Raven_F2Pool to start mining, remember to edit your wallet in!
Again, KAWPOW is a customized version of ProgPoW which is sort of like an Ethash 2.0 in basic terms. What I’m saying here is that, I’d recommend using the same or similar overclock settings on KAWPOW and ProgPoW as you have used mining Ethereum in the past. If you haven’t used those overclocks, start with an overclock of +100 core and +100 memory, and build up from there. For reference here are my overclock settings with my AMD rx470 mining rig.
These are the overclock settings we are using for our p104-100 miner, which is basically aNvidia 1080 GPU mining rig. I increased the mining rig’s hashrate from ~134 mh/s to ~137 mh/s by overclocking the GPUs. If your miner is crashing, use no overclock settings with +0 and +0, then build up.
In our first four hours of mining Ravencoin RVN since their hardfork to the KAWPOW mining algorithm, we have mined 129 Ravencoins. Originally we had a Nvidia 1660 super, 2 RX580’s, and 9x rx470’s mining Ravencoin. About an hour ago we also got out p104 rig online mining RVN, which again, is basically a 9x 1080 GPU mining rig. You can check our miners here, replace our Ravencoin wallet address with yours to see your miners mining.
Want to mine Ravencoin on Linux or smOS? You can do it!
If you want to mine Ravencoin with Nvidia GPUs you can use TREX miner on smOS.
Currently, we are using t-rex v0.15.3, but we recommend using the latest version.
-a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://raven.f2pool.com:3636 -u R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.rig -p x -i 20
We are mining Ravencoin on Linux with AMD on smOS using Kawpowminer
Currently, we are using kawpowminer v1.2.2-cuda, but we recommend using the latest version.
-P stratum+tcp://R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.deckard@raven.f2pool.com:3636 --api-port 3333
Remember to change our wallet address with yours, and to use the correct CUDA version, if you don’t know it’s probably easiest to just try each version, or do some googling.
At the time of the hardfork the Ravencoin network hashrate dropped to around 1th/s, down from ~35 th/s. Although the hashrate is not directly comparable, it was an extreme drop which is good and also what was intended. At the time of finishing this write-up the network hashrate has just breached 2 th/s. Short-term GPU mining profitability will continue to be very high on Ravencoin, especially in comparison the the coin and USD earnings prior to the KAWPOW hardfork mining algorithm change. Long-term this is excellent news for the GPU mining community, and in our opinion, also the Ravencoin community. We are excited to see a bold mining algorithm change, and support Ravencoin in their attempt to be proactive for their community.
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Extra resources & notes for mining Ravencoin in 2020 on KAWPOW!
If you’re looking for a comparison of the Ravencoin KAWPOW miners which benchmarks all of the RVN miners against each other seekest the highest hashrate and thus highest earning miner you can review MinerMore’s article here. This write-up compares nbminer vs t-rex miner vs kawpowminer vs ttminer seeking the one that has the highest hashpower and thus is most profitable.
If you’re wondering what size graphics cards can mine Ravencoin on KAWPOW, it’s ANY GPU 3gb’s or above, and it’s possible for some 2gb graphics cards to mine Ravencoin on KAWPOW, but 2gb GPUs aren’t worth it in our opinion due to their typical lack of power efficiency.
AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards can mine Ravencoin on the new KAWPOW mining algorithm, Nvidia graphics are typically slightly more powerful and more efficient than AMD GPUs when mining Ravencoin KAWPOW and to be honest this is partly due to Nvidia GPUs typically just being better and more powerful graphics cards. Remember that KAWPOW is just a tweaked version of ProgPoW.
If you’re looking for the best Ravencoin mining pools, here are some of the top RVN pools!
F2Pool is a Pay Per Share PPS Ravencoin mining pool, very linear payouts - TREX config
-a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://raven.f2pool.com:3636 -u R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.rig -p x -i 20
Suprnova.cc is a long-standing and reputable mining pool created and operated by ocminer, it’s been a top mining pool for mining altcoins ever since we have mined crypotcurrencies! Below are configuration and bat files supplied by them for all four of the best Ravencoin KAWPOW miners.
Bat File KawPowMiner Ravencoin RVN KAWPOW 2020 miner
kawpowminer.exe -P stratum://WebLogin.Worker@rvn.suprnova.cc:8888
Bat File nbminer Ravencoin RVN KAWPOW 2020 miner
nbminer.exe -a kawpow -u WebLogin.Worker -p x -o stratum+tcp://rvn.suprnova.cc:8888
Bat File t-rex Ravencoin RVN KAWPOW 2020 miner
t-rex.exe -a kawpow -u WebLogin.Worker -p x -o stratum+tcp://rvn.suprnova.cc:8888
TT-Miner Ravencoin RVN KAWPOW miner
TT-Miner -coin rvn -P WebLogin.Worker@rvn.suprnova.cc:8888
MinerMore Ravencoin mining pool stratums and configs for T-Rex miner
-a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://us.rvn.minermore.com -u R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.rig -p x -i 20
-a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://eu.rvn.minermore.com -u R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.rig -p x -i 20
-a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://asia.rvn.minermore.com -u R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.rig -p x -i 20
WoolyPooly Ravencoin mining pool configuration for TREX miner @WoolyPooly
-a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://rvn.woolypooly.com:55555 -u R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.rig
Ravenminer Ravencoin RVN mining pool, configuration for TREX miner
-a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://stratum.ravenminer.com:3838 -u R9qJP1vxnjX9BKfSnUszaJcgwJkDoPJqW1.rig -p x -i 20
The history of RVN Ravencoin mining
VoskCoin has been covering Ravencoin since it was created in 2018, here’s a link to our original GPU mining guide on Ravencoin (outdated but still fun to look back on)
We also created an updated video mining guide when Ravencoin forked from x16r to x16rv2, this is again an outdated Ravencoin mining guide but fun to watch!
It was very difficult to acquire a Ravencoin RVN ASIC miner, but we finally were able to get the owminer which is a RVN asic miner, this ASIC miner does not work on their new mining algorithm KAWPOW, but again an interesting piece of Ravencoin mining history
I have 3 graphics cards 2 times amd rx 570 8GB and an nvidia gtx1060 6GB just got the T-Rex and on the AMD PC “Bminer” I’ve had 15 raven coins together for 8 hours. So in 24 hours I will have 45 coins around $ 0.90 is my bill correct? if that were the case, that’s fine, but that’s exactly what I can do with my 3 graphics cards at Etherum. does anyone have a tip for me? because the new algorithm should be better and bring more profit right?
