The Ravencoin (RVN) Project Has Released a Whitepaper and Roadmap

3 Apr
2018

As it was recently announced Ravencoin (RVN) has released a whitepaper and a roadmap regarding the future of the project, something that a lot of users were eagerly anticipating. The whitepaper titled Ravencoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic System for the Creation and Transfer of Assets gives a bit more details as to what the project is intended to be used for, namely as a platform for transfer of assets or tokens. The Ravencoin Roadmap on the other hand gives a bit more technical details about the upcoming features as well as a bit of information when to expect them such as “The expected release of asset capabilities will be approximately seven months after the release of RVN. Raven will be extended to allow issuing, reissuing, and transfer of assets.” Both documents are still a bit short on details and information, but they cover the base things as RVN is still a work in progress project. So if you have been following the RVN project and were interested in it, then you might want to take a look at the latest updates.

– To keep a track of the discussion about Ravencoin (RVN) latest updates on Bitcointalk…

Updated and Optimized Supminer ccMiner fork for X16r/X16S Mining

1 Apr
2018

Ocminer, the admin of the Suprnova mining pools, has been pretty actively maintaining and further improving his supminer fork of ccminer (source) adding numerous performance improvements for the X16r and X16S mining algorithms. So if you are mining either Ravencoin (RVN) that uses the X16r algorithm or Pigeoncoin (PGN) that uses the X16S algorithm you might want to try the supminer or update it if you already use an older version than the latest 1.5. In the last two days there were numerous performance updates regarding various algorithms that are a part of the X16r and X16S, so supminer could as well be the fastest miner for RVN and PGN at the moment. The miner is free and open-source with a 32-bit Windows binary release also available compiled for CUDA 9.1 (require R390 or newer Nvidia video drivers).

– To download and try the 32-bit Windows binary of the supminer X16r Nvidia miner…

New Claymore Dual Ethereum + Decred/Siacoin/Lbry/Pascal/Blake2s/Keccak AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner

30 Mar
2018

Claymore has updated his dual Ethereum plus DCR, SC, LBRY, PASC, Blake2s and Keccak AMD and Nvidia GPU miner to version 11.6 bringing some performance improvements for slower Nvidia GPUS as well as increasing the usability of older GPUs with less VRAM along with new features and bug fixes. You can read what is the full list of changes in the latest version 11.6 below:

– improved hashrate for weak Nvidia cards by about 1%.
– zero devfee for 3GB cards in Windows 10, same as for all 2GB cards.
– applied some tricks to increase available memory for 3GB cards in Windows 10 so you can mine ETH a bit longer.
– now you can press “y” key to turn on “Compute Mode” in AMD drivers for all cards (Windows only).
– Linux version: removed openssl library dependency.
– improved “-logfile” option, now you can use it to specify a folder for log files, use slash at the end to do it, for example, “-logfile logs\”.
– added “-epoolsfile” and “-dpoolsfile” options.
– remote management: now “miner_getstat2” command also returns PCI bus index for every GPU.
– a few minor bug fixes and improvements.

– For more information and to download the latest Claymore Dual ETH miner 11.6…

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