How to mine Ravencoin (RVN)

1Get a wallet

You need a Ravencoin address to receive what you mine. Use an official wallet:

• Ravencoin wallet - desktop for Windows, Mac and Linux; releases on GitHub

Standard addresses are base58 strings starting with R, usually 34 characters.

Write the seed phrase down on paper and keep it offline. The miner and the pool only ever need the public address.

2Pick a pool

A pool combines many miners so you get paid steadily instead of waiting to find a whole block. Live fees and payouts for every pool are on the pools table.

Kryptex regions: add -eu, -us, -br, -sg, -hk, -ru or -ae after the coin in the host name (same ports). Port 7031 is plain, 8031 is TLS. Logins are wallet/worker (BzMiner: wallet.worker). HeroMiners regions: replace de with fi, ca, us, us2, br, hk, sg, tr, kr, in or au. The same port takes plain and TLS connections. Solo mining: solo:YOUR_WALLET. HeroMiners port 1141 is for high-end rigs and NiceHash.

3Pick a miner

lolMiner does not support KawPow.

4Set it up

Replace YOUR_WALLET with your address and YOUR_WORKER with a name for this machine. On Windows, save the line as a .bat file in the miner's folder and double-click it. On Linux, run it from the miner's folder.

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
SRBMiner-MULTI.exe --disable-cpu --algorithm kawpow --pool rvn.kryptex.network:8031 --wallet YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER --tls true
pause

./SRBMiner-MULTI --disable-cpu --algorithm kawpow --pool rvn.kryptex.network:8031 --wallet YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER --tls true

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
rigel.exe -a kawpow --coin rvn -o stratum+ssl://rvn.kryptex.network:8031 -u YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER
pause

./rigel -a kawpow --coin rvn -o stratum+ssl://rvn.kryptex.network:8031 -u YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
bzminer.exe -a rvn -p stratum+ssl://rvn.kryptex.network:8031 -w YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER
pause

./bzminer -a rvn -p stratum+ssl://rvn.kryptex.network:8031 -w YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
wildrig.exe -a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://rvn.kryptex.network:7031 -u YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER -p x
pause

5Check it works

• Within a few minutes the miner should print accepted shares. Rejected or stale shares above a few percent mean a problem with the connection, the clocks or the pool address.
• Open your pool's dashboard and search for your address. Your worker appears after its first shares; pool hashrate settles over an hour or so.
• Watch temperatures for the first hour: GPU core, hotspot and memory.

Warnings and cautions

Ravencoin-specific

• The DAG grows. Kryptex's DAG calculator shows 5,912 MB at epoch 611 (19 Oct 2026), growing 8 MB about every five days. Once the DAG is bigger than a card's memory the card can no longer mine Ravencoin, so 6 GB cards are close to the end.
• KawPow runs hot; raise clocks carefully and watch the memory temperature.
• Kryptex's guide: antivirus tools dislike miners - exclude only the miner's files and allow the app if your antivirus blocks "potentially unwanted" programs; never switch protection off entirely.

For every coin

• Download miners only from the official page. Use the GitHub release or website linked in the miner table. Fake miners that steal wallets or mine to someone else are common. Where the developer publishes SHA-256 checksums, compare them before the first start (Windows: Get-FileHash .\file.zip -Algorithm SHA256; Linux: sha256sum file.tar.gz).
• Antivirus warnings. Windows Defender and other antivirus tools flag almost every GPU miner as a "potentially unwanted" program, because malware bundles them. Add a folder exclusion only for a miner you downloaded from its official page and checked, and never turn protection off as a whole.
• Your seed phrase is never needed. A miner and a pool only need your public address. Anyone who asks for your seed (recovery) phrase or private key is trying to steal your coins.
• Power, heat and hardware. Mining runs the card at full load all day. Watch GPU, hotspot and memory temperatures, keep the room ventilated, and do not leave a rig running unattended near anything flammable. A power limit or undervolt usually costs a little hashrate and saves a lot of power. Check that your power supply and cables are rated for the load.
• Profit is an estimate. Price, network hashrate and pool luck change every hour. The calculator shows today's numbers, not a promise. Small coins can be hard to sell, and taxes on mined coins apply in many countries. Nothing here is financial advice.

Sources

Checked 18-19 October 2026. Live numbers above come from the Kryptex and HeroMiners public APIs.

• https://ravencoin.org/
• https://ravencoin.org/wallet/
• https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin
• https://pool.kryptex.com/rvn/api/v1/pool/info
• https://pool.kryptex.com/articles/how-to-mine-ravencoin-en
• https://pool.kryptex.com/en/rvn/dag-size-calculator
• https://ravencoin.herominers.com
• https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi
• https://github.com/rigelminer/rigel
• https://github.com/bzminer/bzminer
• https://github.com/andru-kun/wildrig-multi

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