So many mining pools and a focus on mining. But no roadmap or whitepaper or website or any other update as far as I can see! A novel algorithm is great, but need more than that to keep miners interested

Biblepay has been around for a while and has a fairly large community. You can definitely mine it with your rig while gpu mining other coins no problem.

I agree, my point is more that exchanges like hitbtc will get more attention and traffic if they have something new.

A new upcoming exchange called trade token or something similar has a few interesting financial tools for example.

HitBTC looks like a rebadge Binance. Every second exchange is copying the format and layout of Binance rather than creating something new but equally user friendly and engaging. HitBTC should add some features to differentiate itself from other exchanges, rather than going for the whole copy paste approach.

Great love a good steemit bounty.

Although steemit has been frustrating me lately. They recently took the page view counter down so you can't even assess how popular your articles are with non-steemit users, or if your cross linking to other websites is driving traffic. For example, I have a couple articles with only a couple upvotes, but with about 1000 views each.

It is good to know these things so you can see what articles are getting traffic and what people are after even if they don't use steemit.

I think the priority for nodes is to make sure the system is secure, which based on the number of nodes, it probably is. If windows is deemed less secure than linux, or too difficult for the system to deal with two operating systems, then we probably won't see user-friendly nodes on windows make an appearance.

I actually haven't been able to find any coins that do nodes through windows. It possibly doesn't exist and not sure zencash will look into it separately.

Gtx 1060's work fine for me. Fairly low power consumption too so definitely no problem pointing 1060's to mine ravencoin.

I have a few 1060's going now, and gets pretty good hashrates and returns on x16r.

One student should have access to lots of other students with similar interests to plug gaps. Really need to get more developers, website and graphic designer, community manager etc to get the ball rolling. Those handful of people who mined the hell out of this in the first five days should be pitching in with whatever they can offer. I mean, it has been over a month and I'm not sure what their plan is, or even when they'll be ready to announce plans.

Some bitcoin forks and other projects have automatic airdrops provided on exchanges like binance. Wondering if anything like that will happen with this classic bitcoin fork?

I think the Nist5 algo has fallen victim to asics unfortunately. Unsure if all Nist5 algo coins fall in this category but just check out Bulwark coin for an example - it started as GPU mining, now ASIC, and soon they'll move to PoS.

I'm interested in if this project will be an Asic coin given the algo, or if you prefer GPU mining.

1 BTC is still quite a bit, and zencash is available on plenty of exchanges.

In fact, zencash is also available on cryptopia, which actually charges around $200k nowadays for a listing! I think zencash got in before they started charging these insane amounts. I'd rather see it get listed on exchanges that tap into new markets to be honest.

Yeah maybe, but would all the people that subscribe really be buying ravens?

Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy - that is, he predicts a coin is going to be the next big thing, his subscribers then go out and buy the coin and pump it, and hey presto, he was right! It is the next big thing!

I hope not! But honestly there are plenty of good exchanges out there. As long as it is on a few that is a good enough start for me.

New algo already developed, or hoping to make a new algo? Will it be a mix of existing algos, or something entirely different?

Also whats the PoW vs Masternode split and premine look like?

Great to see new projects like this, but further info and website development would help get more attention and see what you're trying to achieve

Should spend less time on discord, focus on website and development (and even this announcement thread)! Although it must be challenging to develop when there is, essentially, one developer. Only so many hours in the day.

A larger  team would definitely help pigeoncoin out - it is a very competitive market out there for new altcoins to position themselves as something new and long lasting.

Often you see projects tracking sideways or even a little down after the first few months of release, particularly if there is no big news. Part of the reason in my view is that the relative supply increases quite a bit over the first few months, which puts alot of downwards pressure on price.

Once a coin is a bit more established, lets say after a year, then one month worth of newly minted coins is less of an influx relative to the existing total supply.

So in short, if ravencoin can track sideways for the next month while all these newly minted coins come onto the market, then that is actually a bit of a win.

Great work - trawling through the bounty page looking for a good honest project to support can be extremely time consuming. Anything that helps streamline the process, and lets me focus on actually reading about interesting projects and contributing to this forum is fantastic.

You mentioned there was no premine, but yet the team holds 185 (million?) ethf. I don't mind if there is a premine to support development, bounties and so on, but just be up front about it.

Also are you on main net now or still on test net?

Maybe. Only if the exchange and liquidity pool is any good. If the product is released and people don't like it you'll see the price drop instead.

Right now it is increasing on speculation of a good product. But we'll have to wait and see.

Will there be a separate announcement page, or is this an announcement page, bounty page and website all wrapped into one

I like bounties that payout in something outside of the native coin currency, like this one appears to do with some bitcoin. Still think having the bounty page separate would make it easier to navigate.