My understanding is not another protocol layer like smart contracts. Devs explained it pretty well in the interview linked a few pages back.

I think a lot of people want it both ways. Decentralized when it benefits them but regulated when it is to their advantage for it to be so.

The devs have publicly stated they control nothing but the code and will not change that without community backing or a few pre-planed upgrades. They are not interested or worried about exchanges in the least at this time.

There is no one with "authority" to do anything about anything which gives the community all the advantages of decentralization.

However, that does leave the door open to scams and people with selfish intent.

Exchanges will get hacked, pools will vanish without paying out, people will try and find glitches to make money off them, people will attack pools and the network. There is no central authority to whine to and "get the bad guys in trouble." We all have to use our best judgement where we mine and where we store our coins. There are no "cops" to call when we feel we have been wronged. It is what it is and is a big part of what decentralized truly means.

The person running this or the previous ANN is not an "official" of ravencoin. No one is an official. The guy running this thread could put in the first post that McDonalds is the official fast food of Ravencoin. Does that make it the official fast food? Nope, only if the community as a whole believes it to be so. And even then it could change in a week. It is only what the majority of people in the community believe it to be. Doing anything involves risk.

I was mining on 3eyed, getting payouts. When I noticed the payouts were late and the first response was posted on the ANN about the person that could fix it being out of town I moved my rigs to another pool. I had just a little under 300 coins showing on the pool site that have since vanished. I have not gotten a payout for them and at this point I do not expect to as it seems the total of the coins pool had gotten were split to those who kept mining. Do I think it is fair? Nope. Is there anything I can do that will change it now? Nope. That is life in crypto. Bad crap happens. It isnt the fault or in control of the devs or the coin itself that someone made a decision that had a negative impact on me. I have simply moved on and written it off as a loss that happens in crypto where there are no regulators to complain to. In fact I do not want there to be regulators to complain to.

Wait until one day if cryptobridge gets hacked, someone makes off with all the coins, and the exchange goes under. How many people are storing all their coins there and not in their wallet? How many will come here and whine and demand their coins back from an imaginary central figure? Guess what? Thats a risk you take keeping coins on an exchange and not in your secure wallet.

Guess my point is there are always bad actors around. The decision on who each of us trust with our mining hash and where we store our coins is ours to make. If you get burned by trusting the wrong entity that is on you. Approach everything as if people want to take your coins and make decisions accordingly and you will be much happier in the end. This goes for all coins not just Raven.

Bashing the coin and filling up 30+ pages of the thread with complaints does nothing but make the community look bad. Not to mention Brian just released a better AMD miner and I almost missed it not wanting to read through 10 pages of complaints.

So is the dip now down to around 500 due to a bunch of people getting delayed payments at the same time and selling today?

Wow long video with a ton of info. Suggest miners watch at least a few minutes from the 27:30 or so mark.

One thing I took from watching the entire video is a sense that the devs are not very concerned with exchanges and the price of one RVN. They seem to care a lot more about the long term project and its functioning with assets and those types of uses uses than they are with the value of the coin. Not in it to make a quick buck at all.

Seems more to be a coin for mining if you like the tech and their adaptation and intended purpose much more so than a coin to mine for profit.

If you are looking to the devs to take actions (like marketing) hoping to increase the value to make you rich, I think you will be disappointed.

I think 2 things from what I have read. I could be wrong but this is what I have read over the last few months:

1. Devs are not that worried about exchanges until later this year

2. Exchanges like Cryptopia charge a large fee to list a coin. There was no ICO or premine. Basically, someone in the community would have to pay the fee.

I had similar issues and have gotten 3/4 cpus to work with the 4th still not working. Truth is sgminer is not a great miner but the only option right now. It just does not work well with the current AMD driver set on windows 10 in many systems.

What I would do first is open up Windows event viewer. Run the miner and see what errors are recorded in the event viewer. Google the error and see what the file is.  9 times out of 10 the errors are related to drivers or how sgminer maps the cards vs how the drivers do. On one system I tried every driver until I got all the way back to 15.whatever before it would work. This required going into safe mode and running DDU and rebooting and installing another version until it worked over and over.

On one rig (ASUS MB made for 19 cards but really only supports 13...) the issue was that I had to use gpu platform 2. Zero was the onboard, 1 was nvidia and 2 was AMD.

My wallet (version v1.2.0.3) has been stuck at 5 days behind for a long time now.

It says I have 8 active connections and says it is syncing with the network.

Restarting the wallet has no effect. I deleted the block info in app data and it redownloaded...got stuck again in same spot.

Says it has process 440025 of 2740366

Any advice?