Step-by-step guide

Here’s a quick step-by-step guide for newbies on how to mine Raven coin on Nanopool

To mine Raven coin all you need is a PC/Mining RIG with a GPU (Nvidia/AMD) of 3GB memory, you can mine even with a GPU of 2GB, but it wouldn't worth the effort. You'll also need a miner and a Raven coin address to receive your mining reward. Check the list below and make sure your hardware/software meets the requirements:

Unfortunately, we don't give any recommendations on what hardware to buy or which one is more profitable (search the mining forums to choose a hardware), therefore we’re going to assume you’re already running Windows/Linux on your RIG and the hardware you have meets the requirements.

Step 1: Get Your GPU Drivers Installed

Double check the drivers are installed in advance or if you installed them previously you can skip this step. 

• For Nvidia drivers, click here and enter your GPU info then click “Start Search”. Download the current driver version from the results. 
• For AMD GPUs, go here and choose "Support & Drivers". Enter your GPU info and click "Display results" then click the download button for your current driver. 

Once downloaded, install the drivers like you normally would (next, next, OK, etc.) and reboot your RIG. You see your GPU’s are recognized correctly if you go into Device Manager (search in Windows search bar) and if you don’t see any warning marks on your GPU’s you're good to go to the next step. 

Step 2: Obtain a Raven Wallet Address 

There's a number of exchanges you can get a Raven address at, however some exchanges don't allow deposits from pools or don't allow very small deposits, so double check with the site before mining directly to an exchange address. There's also official Raven Core wallet available for Windows/Linux and Mac OS which you're advised  to use since it has friendly and familiar GUI, thus it's easy to use and you shouldn't have any troubles with it. But if you don't want to wait while the whole blockchain downloads to your PC, feel free to register at an exchange/web-wallet to obtain a Raven address.

Bear in mind, storing your funds at an exchange/web-wallet is always associated with a risk 

Step 3: Apply some Tweaks to Windows before mining

First of you don't want your miner to be interrupt while mining if your RIG goes to sleep. You don't want to your RIG to be automatically rebutted either, which may occur if Windows updates. 

• Go to your Windows Power Settings and set it to Never sleep 

• Head to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/ Services. Scroll down to Windows Update and turn it off 

• If you're running Windows Defender/Antivirus make sure to add an exception to it so that it doesn't flag your miner as a virus

Step 4: Download and Set up a Miner

For Nvidia GPU

• Depending on the OS you have, download Kapowminer miner for Windows or Linux 

• Extract the miner to any folder you like and navigate to it

• Locate and edit "start.bat" file for Windows and "start.sh" file for Linux OS with any notepad app
  No matter you use Windows or Linux, once you open the file, you will see the following string:

-P stratum+tcp://YOUR_ADDRESS.YOUR_WORKER/PASSWORD@rvn-eu1.nanopool.org:12222

You have to replace "YOUR_ADDRESS" line with your Raven address, "YOUR_WORKER_NAME" with a short and simple name for your RIG (like MyRig) and replace "PASSWORD" with a passphrase to access the account settings. IMPORTANT: Make sure not to delete "." and "/" that are separating your address, your worker name and the password.

Don't change anything else in the file, otherwise if you misconfigure it, the miner might not be able to mine. Once done, save and close the file.

For AMD GPU

• Depending on the OS you have, download Nanominer  miner for Windows or Linux 
• Extract the miner to any folder you like and navigate to it
• Locate and edit "config.ini" file for Windows same in Linux OS with any notepad app
   No matter you use Windows or Linux, once you open the file, look up for the following string:

[Kawpow]
wallet = YOUR_ADDRESS
rigName = YOUR_WORKER_NAME
email = YOUR_EMAIL
coin=Rvn
sortPools=true

You have to replace "YOUR_ADDRESS" line with your Raven address, "YOUR_WORKER_NAME" with a short and simple name for your RIG (like MyRig) and replace "YOUR_EMAIL" with your email address to receive alerts for the pool when your RIG goes offline, otherwise, replace it with a passphrase to access the account settings. 

You can be sure that Nanominer will automatically pick the server that has the lowest ping time from your location and the network latency will not affect your mining as the pool and the miner will communicate at the highest speed possible. 

Don't change anything else in the file, otherwise if you misconfigure it, the miner might not be able to mine. Once done, save and close the file.

Step 5: Start the Miner

Start Nanominer by double-clicking the miner icon file on Windows (same on Linux).
In case you use KawPowminer you need to double-click the  start.bat file on Windows (start.sh file on Linux).

Your miner will start, run the commands to set those environment variables and start hashing away. After a while, you'll be able to find your account on the pool.

Step 6: Find your Account on Nanopool

Remember there's no registration on the pool. You just need to start mining and your account will automatically show up. However, allow some time as our system needs about 30 minutes to add your account to the pool's database since your miner submitted it's first share. So please, be patient and come back to Nanopool in a while, there's Address  filed on the right top in which you need to fill your Raven address in. Once filled, hit enter, you'll be redirected to your Nanopool account page. 

Congrats! You have joined Nanopool. Spend some time to familiarize yourself with the pool and its features; you'll like the interface.

Step 7: Make sure Your Mining goes Smoothly

Let your RIG to mine for at least 6 hours (or even 12) then come back to check your account statistic on the pool. You just need to compare your 6-hour Average hashrate (Nanopool estimates avg hashrate by shares sent from you rigs) with the Last Reported hashrate (it's what your miner tells to the pool your hashrate is) and the values need to be close (the closer the better), however, allow 10% discrepancy. And if your 6-hour Average hashrate is lower by more than 10% than the Reported one, then there must be an issue and you should contact our team to figure it out. 

Step 8: Predict your Profitability  

There's a number of major factors your income depends on and the most obvious, easily identifiable and broad numbers that affect your mining profit are:

Keep in mind, none of mining calculators are able to properly forecast the future, as they don't simply take into account all possible variables, as a result this is almost near impossible to accurately predict uncertain inputs.