FAQ
Here are the most popular questions about how our ravencoin pool works. Do not hesitate to contact us for any other questions.
URL: us.stratum.rvn.bsmith.io
Port: 5555
Username: YOUR RAVEN WALLET ADDRESS
Password: x or leave empty or your choice of password
URL: us.stratum.rvn.bsmith.io
Port: 6555
Username: YOUR RAVEN WALLET ADDRESS
Password: x or leave empty or your choice of password

However ensure you are using correct RVN Wallet Address
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- If you are using Exchange Wallet, then you should contact your Exchange support team to resolve this.
- If you are using Cold/Local Wallet, then you should make sure you have the latest version, AND, synchronize to the latest transaction of coin blockchain. In some cases, you might need to blow away your block chain entirely and start with only your wallet.dat.
- In very rare cases; if you could not find the Tx-id in coin's block explorer, or, if the Tx-id is blank; then you need to contact pool's admin to resolve it. Please provide your wallet address to allow pool's admin to investigate and resolve it.

PPLNS for "Pay Per Last N Share" is a payment method that rewards miners once the pool finds a block. The distribution of the block is then made according to the percentage of the shares of the miner on the last N blocks found by the pool.
Using PPLNS your payout per share will have a large range (30% more or less on your payouts), but on average, PPLNS earns more than PPS (by 5% or so) in the long run (a month or more).
PPS is also known as Pay Per Share. It is a more direct method where you get a standard payout rate for each share completed.This method eliminates the "luck" in your payout, but can decrease your total income per share by around 5%.Using PPS you get a set number of cryptocoins per share of work you have solved. It has no random involved so the payouts do not fluctuate.
PPS is pay per share, usually round-based. So, if a round (i.e., the time between last block was found and new block found) took 1000 hashes and took 5 hours and you, the miner, contributed 100 hashes, you can 10% of the block reward. So if the round was 5 hours and it took 1000 shares but the PPLNS was set to 1 hour, and you were some pool hopper that mined for an hour in hour #2 with 900 shares, you get 90% even though you stopped mining with the pool.