Ravencoin

Ravencoin

RVN
$0.02310915
-14.40%
$0.02246159

24H Price

$0.02738037


About Ravencoin

The Ravencoin price is $0.02310915, a change of -14.40% over the past 24 hours as of 9:22 a.m. The recent price action in Ravencoin left the tokens market capitalization at $315.16M. So far this year, Ravencoinhas a change of 11.39%. Ravencoin is classified as a Currency under CoinDesks Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS).

Ravencoin (RVN) is the native token of a Bitcoin fork that is optimized for peer-to-peer transactions. Its name comes from a “Game of Thrones'' reference, and its white paper opens with: “In the fictional world of Westeros, ravens are used as messengers who carry statements of truth.”

RVN Price

Ravencoin launched in mid-2018, and its RVN token didn’t trade above $0.10 until April 2021, as the crypto market was hitting an all-time high. In the same month, Ravencoin flew to highs of $0.28. A year later, ravencoin had plunged to $0.04, wiping out the April 2021 gains.

Ravencoin trades on several leading cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, Huobi Globa, Bittrex and Gate.io. The market for ravencoin is far smaller than rival Bitcoin forks, like bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV. Its social media presence is small and development has largely fallen off.

How does Ravencoin work?

Ravencoin made four major changes to the Bitcoin protocol. The fork cut Bitcoin’s block reward time from about 10 minutes to one minute, increased the maximum coin supply from 21 million to 21 billion, changed the mining algorithm to remove the reliance on application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) hardware and altered the block reward to 5,000 RVN.

In addition, Ravencoin lets users create and trade assets, an innovation that the Ethereum blockchain made popular. Assets include non-fungible tokens (NFTs), security token offerings and real estate deeds. No major projects rely, however, on Ravencoin.

To create assets, users must burn RVN tokens. While traders can create assets on Bitcoin, through layer 2 platforms like Counterparty, it isn’t easy. Moreover, when creating an asset that resembles a Bitcoin-based NFT, the NFT is attached to the wallet and to the bitcoin used to create that asset; if the bitcoin in the wallet is sent to another address, it’s possible to accidentally destroy the NFT.

Aside from those differences, Ravencoin is similar to Bitcoin. It’s a decentralized network for sending assets between wallets, with transactions confirmed on an immutable ledger by proof-of-work miners. Its supply halves about every four years, and its total supply will likely be in circulation by 2140, just like Bitcoin.

Key events and management

Ravencoin was founded by Tron Black, Bruce Fenton and Joel Weight. Both Black and Weight work for Overstock.com, an U.S. internet retailer that specializes in selling furniture. Weight is that company’s chief technology officer, while Black works for Medici Ventures, the retailer’s blockchain arm. Fenton was the executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation from 2015 through 2018, and once worked for Morgan Stanley.

The protocol doesn’t operate through a decentralized autonomous organization, but through hard forks. Its GitHub page is public and open source.

In June 2020, Ravencoin was exploited after hackers instantly mined 315 million RVN coins, or 1.5% of its maximum supply. The development team decided not to delete those coins, because they were sold to a cryptocurrency exchange and mixed with other RVN coins that were mined legitimately.

The coin is popular with cryptocurrency miners because of its high block rewards. Because many blockchains have switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, Ravencoin is one of the few remaining options for power-hungry miners.

Read less...
Sponsor LogoBuy crypto on a secure, trusted platform.
Cryptoasset investing is highly volatile and unregulated in some EU countries. No consumer protection. Tax on profits may apply. Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest.

Latest About Ravencoin

View All
Many Ethereum miners have yet to resettle into mining a different crypto token. (Midjourney/CoinDesk)
Binance's Crypto Mining Pool Adds Ravencoin Support

Former Ethereum miners have been drawn to alternative coins like ravencoin after they had to leave the Ethereum network post-merge.

Many Ethereum miners have yet to resettle into mining a different crypto token. (Midjourney/CoinDesk)
tzero
Overstock's tZERO Wins FINRA Approval to Launch Retail Broker-Dealer Subsidiary

The firm announced Thursday that FINRA approved its application to launch tZERO Markets, a retail broker-dealer subsidiary.

tzero
Ravencoin attack (Sara Kurfeß/Unsplash)
Bad Ravencoin Code Allows Attackers to Generate Coins Without Mining

“The vulnerability does not allow the stealing of RVN or assets that you own and control, but the minting did create RVN that should not exist,” said developer Tron Black.

Ravencoin attack (Sara Kurfeß/Unsplash)

Tim Beiko from the Ethereum Foundation, shares the Importance of the Dencun Upgrade, what are their concerns, and Ethereum's long-term scaling strategy. Read more...

CoinDesk Indices

View All
Top Indices including Ravencoin
Logo
Index nameTickerWeight24H

Bitcoin Calculator

Last Updated on 03/19/24 9:22 AM

CoinDesk’s Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Calculator determines the exchange rates between major fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies – including BTC, BCH, ETH and XRP to USD, EUR, GBP, IDR and NGN – with up to six decimal places of accuracy. Conversion rates are based on CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index and the price indices of other digital assets. World currency prices are based on rates obtained via Open Exchange Rates.

Market Analysis
Social Analysis