UPDATE: Raven has recently updated and forked as of October 14th, 2020.  Please ensure your client is updated to v2.5 or greater otherwise your wallet may be looking at the wrong chain.
UPDATE YOUR WALLETS:    UPDATE
     
Overview:
Ravencoin was officially launched on January 3rd 2018 with the vision of becoming a community coin, meaning anyone is able to contribute and add to the project.  It is not owned by one individual or a team of developers. As such, while I am posting this announcement with updated information, I am not the founder nor a developer, just a volunteer that is looking to help inform the public.  This is a new open-source project that anyone can contribute towards with the goal of utilizing the blockchain to facilitate the transfer of assets. 

Most people have a hard time conceptualizing what "assets" are so I'll do my best to try to give examples of assets: Assets can come in a variety of types, such as financial instruments such as security tokens/stocks/bonds/deeds/etc as well as gaming items (ex. a sword)/conventional asset management/managing  distributions for co-ops/digital art.  There are a lot of real-world applications that this blockchain is intended to disrupt and improve. Ravencoin is intended to be the rails to these assets and will power the transfer of assets through raven's decentralized trust-less network, which is why there was no premine/developer reward/etc and was launched fairly to instill trust in the network.

Development:
The core developers are currently focused on building the asset layer which will allow Ravencoin to facilitate the transfer of assets.  There is a hard-fork planned for the network to implement this additional asset layer in around October/November 2018 time frame.  This hard-fork will not create multiple coins as it will be an upgrade and the balance that you currently have will be transferred over to the new chain.  No additional coins will be given out from the fork.   

The Ravencoin protocol will support RSK / solidity but ALSO have a native capability built in which makes it easier for many use cases. Additional capabilities will include messaging and dividends. More information to come soon on this matter. Ravencoin will eventually support new token launches and facilitate exchanging/transferring tokens, its unclear at this point what the primary use of those tokens will be, but it can be a wide array of purposes. 

        Core Developers (Discord Username): RavencoinDev, Tron, Chatturga
        Advisers: Bruce Fenton
        Contributing companies:  Overstock, Medici Ventures
        Controlling companies: None
        Please consider donating to the community development fund: RBjAZ4fgoXfMC1ujzs7XKreMxJAL1r9fhT (Raven Address) thank you!



Project Info:
Ravencoin was launched in the interest of fair distribution. Miners from all around the world have added to the network to create one of the strongest decentralized networks in existence.  There is no ICO, no pre-mine, no masternodes, or any other gimmicky feature, and you can mine RVN using AMD or NVIDIA GPUs. Raven is focused on maintaining a decentralized network and the core developers have expressed their intent to change the algorithm should an ASIC ever be launched on Raven's network. 

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     Coin Specifications:
          Algorithm: X16Rv2
 
          Block Time: 1 minute
          Block Reward: 5000 RVN
          Block Reward halving schedule: ~4years
          Total Coin Supply: 21 Billion
          Block Size: 1MB (may increase in the future)
 
          Pre-mine: No
          Founders Reward: No
          ICO: No
          Masternodes: No
          Airdrops: No
          RPC port: 8766
          Network port: 8767
         

      Important Links:
     Wallets Windows: https://github.com/Raven-core/Ravencoin/releases/download/4.3.1.0/raven-qt.zip
         


     Block Explorers:
          https://ravencoin.network/
          https://rvn.traysi.org/
          https://checkraven.com/


     Statistics (by teh_director):
          https://www.rvnstats.info/
         
                                   
     Exchanges:
          https://www.binance.com/en/trade/RVN_BTC
          https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-RVN
          https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org/market/BRIDGE.RVN_BRIDGE.BTC
          https://nanex.co/exchange/RVNNANO
          https://graviex.net/markets/rvnbtc
          https://www.qbtc.com/trade
          https://www.idcm.io/trading/RVN_BTC

     Miner Software Downloads
         Nvidia Mining Rig Software:
          Suprminer for nvidia cards (0% devfee by ocminer)
               Windows release: https://github.com/ocminer/suprminer/releases

          Nevermore Miner for nvidia cards (1% devfee by brianmct)
               Windows releases : https://github.com/brian112358/nevermore-miner/releases



         AMD Mining Rig Software:
          Avermore Miner (optimized SGminer by brianmct, 1% devfee, ~+10% performance gain over current versions)
               Github source: https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner
               Windows/Linux releases: https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/releases
                    Getting Started wiki: https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Getting-Started
                    Optimize Hashrate: https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Optimizing-Hashrate

     
          SGminer (by Brianmct)
               GitHub source: https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r
               Windows releases: https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r/releases
                    Getting Started wiki: https://github.com/brian112358/sgminer-x16r/wiki/Getting-Started

 
     Mining Pools
          MinerMore: https://minermore.com/
                        code: stratum+tcp://pool.minermore.com:4501 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p x # USA
                        code: stratum+tcp://eu.minermore.com:4501 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p x # Europe
                        code: stratum+tcp://hk.minermore.com:4501 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p x # Asia

          Minepool: https://www.minepool.com/
                         code: stratum+tcp://stratum.minepool.com:3636 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p c=RVN

          YiiMP.eu: http://yiimp.eu/

          CryptoPool.PARTY: https://cryptopool.party/
                        code: stratum+tcp://cryptopool.party:3636 -u -p c=RVN

          IceMining.ca: https://icemining.ca/site/gocoins?id=2089
                        code: -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://mine.icemining.ca:3636 -u -p c=RVN

          Coinblockers: https://rvn.coinblockers.com/
                        code:  US Stratum: stratum+tcp://rvn-us.coinblockers.com:4449 -u
                                            WALLET_ADDRESS.yourRigName For EU stratum change "us" to "eu"

          gos.cx: https://gos.cx/site/GetCoin?c=RVN
                        code: -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://eu.gos.cx:3637 -u wallet.rigName -p c=RVN - Europe
                        code: -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://us.gos.cx:3637 -u wallet.rigName -p c=RVN - USA
                        code: -a x16r -o stratum+tcp://ru.gos.cx:3637 -u wallet.rigName -p c=RVN - RU

          PickAxePro: http://www.pickaxe.pro/
                        code: stratum+tcp://x16r.pickaxe.pro:3636 -u WALLETADDRESS -p c=RVN

          Suprnova: https://rvn.suprnova.cc/index.php?page=gettingstarted


          Hash4Life: https://hash4.life/
                        code: stratum+tcp://hash4.life:3636 -u WALLET -p c=RVN

          Omegapool: https://www.omegapool.cc/

          Rush Hour Mining: http://rushhourmining.com/
                         code: stratum+tcp://rushhourmining.com:3636 -u -p c=RVN


     Ravencoin Mining Profit Calculator:
           Coin Calculators
               https://www.coincalculators.io/coin.aspx?crypto=ravencoin-mining-calculator