Quote from: RaptureCoreDev on January 20, 2018, 12:05:37 AM

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Rapture - [RAP]

https://our-rapture.com

Discord (please join us here for plenty of information and activity) - https://discord.gg/NMgQEn8

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Rapture digital currency is a highly secure and flexible method of payment that furthers the economic strength of the community itself. With no connection to the manipulation and corruption of the global banking and financial cartels, Rapture provides a way for believers to store value, exchange value, transact, and spread the word to the masses.

Rapture has three core goals:

To provide secure blockchain technology leveraged by believers

To create a built-in market for tract and gift sales, which gives believes a platform for spreading their message while increasing value to the currency

To serve as a convenient method of payment among believers, which increases the community grant fund for outreach and missionary programs

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Wallets

Windows 32-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-win32.zip

Windows 64-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-win64.zip

Linux 32-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-linux32.tar.gz

Linux 64-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-linux64.tar.gz

OSX .dmg
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-osx.dmg

OSX .tar
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-osx64.tar.gz

Source
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/

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Fundamentals

Symbol: RAP

Type: PoW + Masternodes - Neoscrypt (ASIC Resistant, GPU friendly, DgW v3 retargeting)

Features: Masternodes with high rewards, InstantSend, PrivateSend, Fast block times

Coin supply: Approx 21 Million

Premine: Approx 3%*

Masternode Reward: 50% of block (+ Lucky PoW) (MN Rewards are 25% up to block 2000, and 50% from then on)

Masternode Collateral: 1000 Rapture

Block time average: 120 seconds

PoW Reward: 14 Rapture (7 PoW + 7 MN), reducing by 7% annually

Governance: Budgets and Superblocks initiating after approx 1 year (block 262,800)

* Rapture premine to be used for Airdrops, Bounties, and development of Rapture Gift Cards system

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NEWS

CRYPTO-BRIDGE listing live!
https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org/market/BRIDGE.RAP_BRIDGE.BTC

We have our first mini airdrop tweet posted right now! Still have a few spots open to win!
http://our-rapture.com/spread-the-word/

Rapture Charity Outreach Airdrop!
All the details are here: http://our-rapture.com/ad2
25 community members AND 25 qualifying charities will get 10 RAP each!

Our CharityNode program is now in beta! Have a favorite faith-based charity? Help them get set up with us! http://our-rapture.com/giving/

Just posted a big update on our launch week, current news, and things to look forward to (too long to post in the ANN post) -

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2788625.msg28919631#msg28919631

Masternode guides

We have two comprehensive masternode guides available now that can be used for the setup and configuration of Rapture masternodes using a Linux VPS to host the node (currently a requirement).

The first guide goes through a hot/cold wallet setup using Vultr as a VPS service (they've been a decent choice with Linux VPS's available for $2.50/month). This guide also has a Troubleshooting section that is continually being added to:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kz6OuR1ybR_ZpvKEvJQybUdn_jVZVfviks7h-77_1Gs/edit?usp=sharing

The second guide is from Discord community member @birty#9460 (thanks birty!) and is focused on a setup with Time4VPS (another popular VPS option):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CWUjlrmvpbceB7_Mu-mEhqg67nKYT7hvvF9gNTu4qMA/edit?usp=sharing

Regardless of which guide you use, try not to jump between guides. The first guide creates a non-root user for the node to run under, the second guide operates as root.
This means that there will be differences in paths and trying to copy and paste commands from both guides will likely lead to issues.
If you use either of these guides and get stuck or would like to provide some feedback, please feel free to drop into the #masternodes channel of our Discord server.

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EXCHANGES and LISTINGS

Southxchange - UPDATE 1/23 - LISTING LIVE! - https://www.southxchange.com/Market/Book/RAP/BTC
Stocks.Exchange - UPDATE 1/23 - LISTING LIVE! - https://stocks.exchange/trade/RAP/BTC
CryptoBridge - UPDATE 2/12 - LISTING LIVE! - https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org/market/BRIDGE.RAP_BRIDGE.BTC

Crypto-Coinz.net - https://www.crypto-coinz.net/coin-info/?55-Rapture-RAP-NeoScrypt-calculator/
You'll also find us on their Masternode calculator: https://www.crypto-coinz.net/master-node-calculator/
And also their excellent mining calculator: https://www.crypto-coinz.net/crypto-calculator/

masternodes.online: https://masternodes.online/currencies/RAP

MNRank.com - http://mnrank.com/

coinmarketcap.com - listing submitted
Coinexchange.io - listing ticket submitted, awaiting further instructions

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AIRDROPS

Rapture Charity Outreach Airdrop!
All the details are here: http://our-rapture.com/ad2
25 community members AND 25 qualifying charities will get 10 RAP each!

Thanks again to our early supporters on launch day! We have been actively collecting wallet addresses and sending out the drops in groupings as the addresses are received.

If you were here on launch day and engaged with the community, we saw your posts and have added you to these lists:

http://our-rapture.com/images/early-community-DISCORD.jpg

http://our-rapture.com/images/early-community-BITCOINTALK.jpg

If you see your name on that list and haven't sent us your wallet address, please do so either from your Discord user account or Bitcointalk user account and we'll check it against the list.

Here are the transactions for the groupings sent so far:

Discord Airdrop Group 1 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/cbdc985bf9849e7e4a425563e47b51b62a55d6d172f81d18fbed1d6edc82dbc1
Discord Airdrop Group 2 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/30dafffb880ddc7462ad75a27a37b5279c7d26c0a8364268baf10df66ee0dd0b
Discord Airdrop Group 3 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/4409a0c4ff26609fdfe406de9c45fb283ad08531e3555ec524f5a8dffe81e6e4
Discord Airdrop Group 4 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/9f5ca2651e5b3b8ada976512eb98fb3e03c5a461a3bb5191671fde9def561041
Discord Airdrop Group 5 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/6a0d176ab95162d00160b7fc90675f7ee7787bcf2e37380686f38e83850d20c0
Discord Airdrop Group 6 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/fafc9b609f20bb5cf6618c2ccc798854fd09af02983e8981c99214f1619cc8b9
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 1 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/40cb7cb050fa921a2e89db9501cc48dad89c4cba08266a25db0655b1da372f61
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 2 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/129495ec44df57662d7ad9ec8695abe4ef9550417dace3452ffce628380f5fff
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 3 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/f3fd4628b8b47aa6151e056bc56a7cb810ae47daef57cd3ca0bc89f57b9b63ff
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 4 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/36d968fdbd27f9f65059e638a5a13ec11263ab1e03284a25155609807bca238e

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MASTERNODES

The first five masternodes setup by community members were done so via a request for auctions in the #auction channel on Discord. Those nodes are as follows:

MN1 - @savskii - 1.83 BTC - txid f3ff289250a505e1444683824753c0fb2dd0c0d336ea60c5fcbe91469a56f8a4

MN2 @wd - 1.75 BTC - txid 7db41eef148aa18588dbd0c0966c27e996231931327b7c1619c4e63188aa7c3f

MN3 - @birty - 2.1BTC - txid be5c2c12d7556f06bc2d23d1e9b889d7e254aed823e4df5301f0231b9cc24ef6

MN4 - @kr-14 - 2.14BTC -txid acf202f23237f939860c70f961396676297e2652dbaaf19540c843def4463f28

MN5 - @carlsson - 2.1BTC - txid 3e9ab2bab01d94cc324eeebc66f273e61f8c90f63f02fc09660801c87f6b2b61

Happy to report that the first 50/50 Lucky PoW block at height 3,000 went to @birty!

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Lucky PoW blocks
(blocks that payout much higher rewards)

Block 2,000 (Day 2) 1000 Rapture
Block 3,000 (Day 4) 1000 Rapture
Block 4,000 (Day 5) 1000 Rapture
Block 5,000 (Day 7) 1000 Rapture
Block 6,000 (Day Cool

1000 Rapture
Block 10,000 (Day 14) 2000 Rapture
Block 15,000 (Day 21) 2000 Rapture
Block 20,000 (Day 28) 2000 Rapture
Block 40,000 (Day 55) 2000 Rapture
Block 75,000 (Day 104) 2000 Rapture
Block 100,000 (Day 139) 2000 Rapture
Block 120,000 (Day 167) 5000 Rapture
Block 140,000 (Day 194) 5000 Rapture
Block 160,000 (Day 222) 5000 Rapture
Block 180,000 (Day 250) 5000 Rapture
Block 200,000 (Day 277) 5000 Rapture
Block 220,000 (Day 305) 5000 Rapture
Block 240,000 (Day 333) 5000 Rapture
Block 450,000 (Day 625) 10000 Rapture
Block 720,000 (Day 1000) 10000 Rapture
Block 950,000 (Day 1319) 10000 Rapture
Block 1,200,000 (Day 1600) 10000 Rapture

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ROADMAP

October 2017
concept development
outreach and team build

December 2017
completion of market analysis
blockchain development and testing
identity design
focus group study

January 2018
OFFICIAL LAUNCH!
proof of work, master nodes, block explorer, wallets
website and marketing materials for public use

Q1
initial exchange listings (stocks.exchange, southxchange live)
Whitepaper
first charity partnerships and donations
further website development
development of web and paper wallets
air drops, bounties, community masternode auction
development of infrastructure for secure printed Rapture gifting cards
voting functionality

Q2
initial sale of secure printed Rapture gifting cards
incentive and reward program for merchant adoption[/li][/list]

Q3
release of for those left behind Rapture mementos (keychains, framed imagery, etc) which serve to educate those left behind, and set them up for a second chance

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Pools

-=ArcPool=-
https://arcpool.com/

0.5% fee, payouts every 1 hour
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://arcpool.com:31010 -u -p c=RAP
Nicehash - port 4234
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://arcpool.com:41020 -u -p c=RAP
UNDER MAINTENANCE 24 Jan from 09:00 AM UTC onwards - Will remove this when they're back up, please re-direct your miners before then

BSOD.PW
http://bsod.pw/site/mining

0.5% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool.bsod.pw:2030 -u YOURWALLETADDRESS.rigname -p x -R 5

BULWARK POOL
http://bulwarkpool.com/

0.5% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu.bulwarkpool.com:10002 -u -p c=RAP
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://us.bulwarkpool.com:10002 -u -p c=RAP
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://asia.bulwarkpool.com:10002 -u -p c=RAP

HASHFASTER
https://hashfaster.com/

1% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://hashfaster.com:20002 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p c=RAP
Nicehash -
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://hashfaster.com:20002 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p c=RAP,d=16384

LOCAL POOL
https://lpool.name/pool/RAP

2% fee,
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.lpool.name:12010 -u -p c=RAP

UNIMINING
https://www.unimining.net/

0.5% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool.unimining.net:4242 -u [-p ]

DACIAPOOL
http://daciapool.xyz/

Fee: 0.1%, Hourly payouts (minimum: 0.1 RAP)
Stratum URL: stratum+tcp://eu.daciapool.xyz
Stratum Port: 9497

PandaPool
https://pandapool.io/info/howtostart/neoscrypt/22

Stratum URL Difficulty from 686 to 16300: stratum+tcp://rap.pandapool.io:16141
Nicehash Stratum URL Difficulty 16500 to 32000: stratum+tcp://rap.pandapool.io:16142

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Links

Wallets - http://our-rapture.com/wallet/
Block Explorer - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/
GitHub - https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture

Discord - https://discord.gg/NMgQEn8
Twitter - https://twitter.com/our_rapture
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/our_rapture/

About - http://our-rapture.com/what-makes-us-different/
FAQ - http://our-rapture.com/faq/
Spread the word - http://our-rapture.com/spread-the-word/

http://our-rapture.com

I've few questions

1)
If I do not have a masternode, does that means i cannot solo mine? Solo mine means without pool, using my own daemon node?

2)
To start RAP pool, one must have a masternode?

3)
from where one can purchase RAP?