Quote from: RivAngE on August 08, 2018, 08:14:17 PM

Quote from: BiteByte on August 08, 2018, 08:09:28 PM

Quote from: crazyer1976 on August 08, 2018, 12:35:01 PM

In the morning I could not connect to the stratum Icemining. Switched the miner to https://cryptopool.party, 0.5 coins since then. A month ago was 100 coins a day))) If the situation does not improve, who will mine this coin at this price?
UDP: https://cryptopool.party removed Ravencoin. What is happening?

What are you asking?:
Q:
Why has Cryptopool stopped offering RVN?
A:
They still offer RVN and even giving away RVN to miners.

or

Q:
Why so little returns right now?
A:
Large amounts of hash power came in for a mining rape. Causing the difficulty to go very high.
They left us with a smaller network hashrate and a very high difficulty to get through 2016 blocks before it can adjust again.

If I check now there is 0.18 blocks being mined per minute. That means one block per 5.5 minutes.
The target is 1 per minute.

So you are getting a share of what your pool is mining. If it doesn't get that block after 5 mins it has to try for the next 5mins and so on. Your pool may not get one for a long time.

This from a few posts up on the discussions on what to do about this:

Quote from: beursstarter on August 08, 2018, 05:51:48 AM

From Discord:

Quote from: Chatturga

Hi all. Here's the latest scoop from the devs regarding the mining difficulty swings/fix. Some of the devs believe that Ravencoin will be able to push through the issue until October 31st in order to combine a difficulty update fork with the upcoming asset layer fork to avoid some of the big pitfalls that would come with hard forks, but they also recognize that this is a significant issue that is affecting the mining community, and by extension, the overall project. They have been testing Dark Gravity Wave on testnet and are making some tweaks to it that will fit Ravencoin better, as well as the best way and time to implement it if it gets pushed out early. The signs point to it being implemented before October 31st, but the details are still being worked out

With every swing getting worse, I don't think they can last until October. My guess is that the next diff lowering will be half of he last, and if we see the same hashing power coming back then we'll see double the diff we have now. Good luck finding miners to work for free with 1 block / 10 minutes.

I totally understand where you're coming from and it is annoying. If it got worse the devs are hinting to bring it forward. At the beginning a lot of us here mined this for 2-3 months when it had no value as we hoped it would have a future.
Imagine if the block reward was only 50 and 25 of those went to a masternode.