[ANN]RAPTURE /POW(Neo)/78% MASTERNODE REWARDS+CHARITYNODES/ our-rapture.com

[theonlyone]

http://www.our-rapture.com//images/ANN-rapture-layout-1.jpg


Rapture - [RAP]

https://our-rapture.com


Discord (please join us here for plenty of information and activity) - https://discord.gg/NMgQEn8

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Rapture digital currency is a highly secure and flexible method of payment that furthers the economic strength of the community itself. With no connection to the manipulation and corruption of the global banking and financial cartels, Rapture provides a way for believers to store value, exchange value, transact, and spread the word to the masses.

Rapture has three core goals:

• To provide secure blockchain technology leveraged by believers

• To create a built-in market for tract and gift sales, which gives believes a platform for spreading their message while increasing value to the currency

• To serve as a convenient method of payment among believers, which increases the community grant fund for outreach and missionary programs

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Wallets


Windows 32-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-win32.zip

Windows 64-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-win64.zip

Linux 32-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-linux32.tar.gz

Linux 64-bit
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-linux64.tar.gz

OSX .dmg
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-osx.dmg

OSX .tar
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/releases/download/v1.0.0/rapturecore-1.0.0-osx64.tar.gz

Source
https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture/


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Fundamentals


Symbol: RAP

Type: PoW + Masternodes - Neoscrypt (ASIC Resistant, GPU friendly, DgW v3 retargeting)

Features: Masternodes with high rewards, InstantSend, PrivateSend, Fast block times

Coin supply: Approx 21 Million

Premine: Approx 3%*

Masternode Reward: 50% of block (+ Lucky PoW) (MN Rewards are 25% up to block 2000, and 50% from then on)

Masternode Collateral: 1000 Rapture

Block time average: 120 seconds

PoW Reward: 14 Rapture (7 PoW + 7 MN), reducing by 7% annually

Governance: Budgets and Superblocks initiating after approx 1 year (block 262,800)

* Rapture premine to be used for Airdrops, Bounties, and development of Rapture Gift Cards system

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NEWS

CRYPTO-BRIDGE listing live!
https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org/market/BRIDGE.RAP_BRIDGE.BTC


We have our first mini airdrop tweet posted right now! Still have a few spots open to win!
http://our-rapture.com/spread-the-word/


Rapture Charity Outreach Airdrop!
All the details are here:  http://our-rapture.com/ad2
25 community members AND 25 qualifying charities will get 10 RAP each!


Our CharityNode program is now in beta! Have a favorite faith-based charity? Help them get set up with us! http://our-rapture.com/giving/


Just posted a big update on our launch week, current news, and things to look forward to (too long to post in the ANN post) -

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2788625.msg28919631#msg28919631


Masternode guides

We have two comprehensive masternode guides available now that can be used for the setup and configuration of Rapture masternodes using a Linux VPS to host the node (currently a requirement).


The first guide goes through a hot/cold wallet setup using Vultr as a VPS service (they've been a decent choice with Linux VPS's available for $2.50/month). This guide also has a Troubleshooting section that is continually being added to:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kz6OuR1ybR_ZpvKEvJQybUdn_jVZVfviks7h-77_1Gs/edit?usp=sharing



The second guide is from Discord community member @birty#9460 (thanks birty!) and is focused on a setup with Time4VPS (another popular VPS option):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CWUjlrmvpbceB7_Mu-mEhqg67nKYT7hvvF9gNTu4qMA/edit?usp=sharing

Regardless of which guide you use, try not to jump between guides. The first guide creates a non-root user for the node to run under, the second guide operates as root.
This means that there will be differences in paths and trying to copy and paste commands from both guides will likely lead to issues.
If you use either of these guides and get stuck or would like to provide some feedback, please feel free to drop into the #masternodes channel of our Discord server.

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EXCHANGES and LISTINGS


Southxchange - UPDATE 1/23 - LISTING LIVE! - https://www.southxchange.com/Market/Book/RAP/BTC
Stocks.Exchange - UPDATE 1/23 - LISTING LIVE! - https://stocks.exchange/trade/RAP/BTC
CryptoBridge - UPDATE 2/12 - LISTING LIVE! - https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org/market/BRIDGE.RAP_BRIDGE.BTC

Crypto-Coinz.net - https://www.crypto-coinz.net/coin-info/?55-Rapture-RAP-NeoScrypt-calculator/
You'll also find us on their Masternode calculator: https://www.crypto-coinz.net/master-node-calculator/
And also their excellent mining calculator: https://www.crypto-coinz.net/crypto-calculator/

masternodes.online: https://masternodes.online/currencies/RAP

MNRank.com - http://mnrank.com/

coinmarketcap.com - listing submitted
Coinexchange.io - listing ticket submitted, awaiting further instructions

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AIRDROPS



Rapture Charity Outreach Airdrop!
All the details are here:  http://our-rapture.com/ad2
25 community members AND 25 qualifying charities will get 10 RAP each!


Thanks again to our early supporters on launch day! We have been actively collecting wallet addresses and sending out the drops in groupings as the addresses are received.

If you were here on launch day and engaged with the community, we saw your posts and have added you to these lists:

http://our-rapture.com/images/early-community-DISCORD.jpg

http://our-rapture.com/images/early-community-BITCOINTALK.jpg

If you see your name on that list and haven't sent us your wallet address, please do so either from your Discord user account or Bitcointalk user account and we'll check it against the list.

Here are the transactions for the groupings sent so far:

Discord Airdrop Group 1 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/cbdc985bf9849e7e4a425563e47b51b62a55d6d172f81d18fbed1d6edc82dbc1
Discord Airdrop Group 2 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/30dafffb880ddc7462ad75a27a37b5279c7d26c0a8364268baf10df66ee0dd0b
Discord Airdrop Group 3 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/4409a0c4ff26609fdfe406de9c45fb283ad08531e3555ec524f5a8dffe81e6e4
Discord Airdrop Group 4 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/9f5ca2651e5b3b8ada976512eb98fb3e03c5a461a3bb5191671fde9def561041
Discord Airdrop Group 5 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/6a0d176ab95162d00160b7fc90675f7ee7787bcf2e37380686f38e83850d20c0
Discord Airdrop Group 6 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/fafc9b609f20bb5cf6618c2ccc798854fd09af02983e8981c99214f1619cc8b9
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 1 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/40cb7cb050fa921a2e89db9501cc48dad89c4cba08266a25db0655b1da372f61
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 2 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/129495ec44df57662d7ad9ec8695abe4ef9550417dace3452ffce628380f5fff
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 3 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/f3fd4628b8b47aa6151e056bc56a7cb810ae47daef57cd3ca0bc89f57b9b63ff
Bitcointalk Airdrop Group 4 - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/tx/36d968fdbd27f9f65059e638a5a13ec11263ab1e03284a25155609807bca238e

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MASTERNODES

The first five masternodes setup by community members were done so via a request for auctions in the #auction channel on Discord. Those nodes are as follows:

MN1 - @savskii - 1.83 BTC - txid f3ff289250a505e1444683824753c0fb2dd0c0d336ea60c5fcbe91469a56f8a4

MN2 @wd - 1.75 BTC - txid 7db41eef148aa18588dbd0c0966c27e996231931327b7c1619c4e63188aa7c3f

MN3 - @birty - 2.1BTC - txid be5c2c12d7556f06bc2d23d1e9b889d7e254aed823e4df5301f0231b9cc24ef6

MN4 - @kr-14 - 2.14BTC -txid acf202f23237f939860c70f961396676297e2652dbaaf19540c843def4463f28

MN5 - @carlsson - 2.1BTC - txid  3e9ab2bab01d94cc324eeebc66f273e61f8c90f63f02fc09660801c87f6b2b61

Happy to report that the first 50/50 Lucky PoW block at height 3,000 went to @birty!

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Lucky PoW blocks
(blocks that payout much higher rewards)

Block 2,000 (Day 2) – 1000 Rapture
Block 3,000 (Day 4) – 1000 Rapture
Block 4,000 (Day 5) – 1000 Rapture
Block 5,000 (Day 7) – 1000 Rapture
Block 6,000 (Day – 1000 Rapture
Block 10,000 (Day 14) – 2000 Rapture
Block 15,000 (Day 21) – 2000 Rapture
Block 20,000 (Day 28) – 2000 Rapture
Block 40,000 (Day 55) – 2000 Rapture
Block 75,000 (Day 104) – 2000 Rapture
Block 100,000 (Day 139) – 2000 Rapture
Block 120,000 (Day 167) – 5000 Rapture
Block 140,000 (Day 194) – 5000 Rapture
Block 160,000 (Day 222) – 5000 Rapture
Block 180,000 (Day 250) – 5000 Rapture
Block 200,000 (Day 277) – 5000 Rapture
Block 220,000 (Day 305) – 5000 Rapture
Block 240,000 (Day 333) – 5000 Rapture
Block 450,000 (Day 625) – 10000 Rapture
Block 720,000 (Day 1000) – 10000 Rapture
Block 950,000 (Day 1319) – 10000 Rapture
Block 1,200,000 (Day 1600) – 10000 Rapture

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ROADMAP

October 2017
• concept development
• outreach and team build


December 2017
• completion of market analysis
• blockchain development and testing
• identity design
• focus group study


January 2018
• OFFICIAL LAUNCH!
• proof of work, master nodes, block explorer, wallets
• website and marketing materials for public use


Q1
• initial exchange listings (stocks.exchange, southxchange live)
• Whitepaper
• first charity partnerships and donations
• further website development
• development of web and paper wallets
• air drops, bounties, community masternode auction
• development of infrastructure for secure printed Rapture gifting cards
• voting functionality


Q2
• initial sale of secure printed Rapture gifting cards
• incentive and reward program for merchant adoption[/li][/list]


Q3
• release of “for those left behind” Rapture mementos (keychains, framed imagery, etc) which serve to educate those left behind, and set them up for a second chance


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Pools

-=ArcPool=-
https://arcpool.com/

0.5% fee, payouts every 1 hour
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://arcpool.com:31010 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=RAP
Nicehash - port 4234
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://arcpool.com:41020 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=RAP
UNDER MAINTENANCE 24 Jan from 09:00 AM UTC onwards - Will remove this when they're back up, please re-direct your miners before then


BSOD.PW
http://bsod.pw/site/mining

0.5% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool.bsod.pw:2030 -u YOURWALLETADDRESS.rigname -p x -R 5


BULWARK POOL
http://bulwarkpool.com/

0.5% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu.bulwarkpool.com:10002 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=RAP
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://us.bulwarkpool.com:10002 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=RAP
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://asia.bulwarkpool.com:10002 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=RAP


HASHFASTER
https://hashfaster.com/

1% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://hashfaster.com:20002 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p c=RAP
Nicehash -
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://hashfaster.com:20002 -u WALLET_ADDRESS -p c=RAP,d=16384


LOCAL POOL
https://lpool.name/pool/RAP

2% fee,
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.lpool.name:12010 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=RAP


UNIMINING
https://www.unimining.net/

0.5% fee, payouts every 2 hours
-a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool.unimining.net:4242 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> [-p <OPTIONS>]


DACIAPOOL
http://daciapool.xyz/

Fee: 0.1%, Hourly payouts (minimum: 0.1 RAP)
Stratum URL: stratum+tcp://eu.daciapool.xyz
Stratum Port: 9497


PandaPool
https://pandapool.io/info/howtostart/neoscrypt/22

Stratum URL Difficulty from 686 to 16300:   stratum+tcp://rap.pandapool.io:16141
Nicehash Stratum URL Difficulty 16500 to 32000:   stratum+tcp://rap.pandapool.io:16142

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Links

Wallets - http://our-rapture.com/wallet/
Block Explorer - http://explorer.our-rapture.com/
GitHub - https://github.com/RaptureCore/Rapture

Discord - https://discord.gg/NMgQEn8
Twitter - https://twitter.com/our_rapture
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/our_rapture/

About - http://our-rapture.com/what-makes-us-different/
FAQ - http://our-rapture.com/faq/
Spread the word - http://our-rapture.com/spread-the-word/


http://our-rapture.com

I've few questions

1)
If I do not have a masternode, does that means i cannot solo mine? Solo mine means without pool, using my own daemon node?

2)
To start RAP pool, one must have a masternode?

3)
from where one can purchase RAP?

[1714016229]

1714016229

[1714016229]

1714016229

[RaptureCoreDev]

I've few questions

1)
If I do not have a masternode, does that means i cannot solo mine? Solo mine means without pool, using my own daemon node?

2)
To start RAP pool, one must have a masternode?

3)
from where one can purchase RAP?

Hi! Masternodes aren't required for mining or running a pool. They're a node that is run 24 hours a day and provide additional functionality to the network. For solo mining, you would still want to setup a pool. p2pool works, but you would have to configure it to interface with the Rapture daemon and if you haven't done this before then it might be a bit too complex. It would be far more straightforward (and probably more effective if you're running a single miner rather than a farm) to jump onto an existing pool, check the ANN post for pool listings. We don't have a preferred pool, but if you're mining with a single gpu then look for a pool that already has some hashing power and has recently hashed blocks.

The best exchange option is CryptoBridge: https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org/market/BRIDGE.RAP_BRIDGE.BTC

southXchange is another option and they've been reliable. Not currently steering anyone towards stocks.exchange as they've had too many issues across the board.

Also, check some of the posts here by Becca/Rapture and the pages on our website. There are a few ongoing bounties and campaigns that are another good option for getting started with Rapture. Thanks!

[emanuelgunter]

Missionary platform which is called Rapture seems a bit ironic imo.

[Becca/Rapture]

Missionary platform which is called Rapture seems a bit ironic imo.

Ironic? We haven't heard that one yet! A lot of people have commented that they rather like the name. Do you have suggestions for something better? We're always open to feedback!

[Becca/Rapture]

New bounty campaign to be announced tomorrow (02.19.2018) at 4pm GMT -  reward will be 100 RAP! Other ongoing campaigns listed here: http://our-rapture.com/spread-the-word/

[JaxT88]

a good vps service to host mn

[RaptureCoreDev]

a good vps service to host mn

Vultr.com is pretty decent, their $2.50/month machines will work fine, and our guide uses Vultr as an example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kz6OuR1ybR_ZpvKEvJQybUdn_jVZVfviks7h-77_1Gs

[theonlyone]

I've few questions

1)
If I do not have a masternode, does that means i cannot solo mine? Solo mine means without pool, using my own daemon node?

2)
To start RAP pool, one must have a masternode?

3)
from where one can purchase RAP?

Hi! Masternodes aren't required for mining or running a pool. They're a node that is run 24 hours a day and provide additional functionality to the network. For solo mining, you would still want to setup a pool. p2pool works, but you would have to configure it to interface with the Rapture daemon and if you haven't done this before then it might be a bit too complex. It would be far more straightforward (and probably more effective if you're running a single miner rather than a farm) to jump onto an existing pool, check the ANN post for pool listings. We don't have a preferred pool, but if you're mining with a single gpu then look for a pool that already has some hashing power and has recently hashed blocks.

The best exchange option is CryptoBridge: https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org/market/BRIDGE.RAP_BRIDGE.BTC

southXchange is another option and they've been reliable. Not currently steering anyone towards stocks.exchange as they've had too many issues across the board.

Also, check some of the posts here by Becca/Rapture and the pages on our website. There are a few ongoing bounties and campaigns that are another good option for getting started with Rapture. Thanks!

Masternode 50% reward for owner, does the owner mine himself to get reward or it's paid when other users are connected to mine with this particular masternode or profit of rewads divided among all masternode owners and share of profit is given?

[Becca/Rapture]

*****

New bounty program is live!  http://our-rapture.com/charity-recruiting/


*****

[Becca/Rapture]

And... THIS! An interview with US!

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@secsi/rapture-an-interview-with-the-developers

[doktorot]

RXpiACcrE8MXHtRNh5umcZwkAdSXdcLYu3   airdrop

[RaptureCoreDev]

We wanted to follow up on some discussions about exchange trades that were being done at low prices, and the question as to why amounts were being sold so far below the lowest current ask offers.

We did some digging and found that one pool in particular, zpool.ca, is currently mining a significant amount of blocks and the rewards are being automatically sold at regular intervals on exchanges far below the lowest asking price.

We don't believe that there's any malicious or damaging intent by the pool, but rather, it's just the result of lazy automation and the fact that they exchange mined rewards for BTC as quickly as possible -  no is one looking at the spread, nor making informed decisions. It's not a natural buying/selling process, in fact it's basically a selling bot - and the problem is compounded by overall low volume.

We've requested that zpool remove us from their pool, but they may not choose to co-operate so we're looking at other options that would help mitigate or eliminate the effect they're having.

One potential solution we are considering, is selecting an established pool that does NOT do automatic payouts in BTC - and setting up a promotion to encourage users to switch away from "damaging" pools such as zpool, and join our selected pool. Right now bsod provides a significant amount of the hash power, so they would be the obvious choice.

A second option would be to setup our own official pool with 0% fees. We would handle the operations and expenses of this pool and it would be not-for-profit. If a fee were ever added, the full amount would be donated to charities.

We'd love to get community feedback on either of these approaches.

[RaptureCoreDev]

Quickly arrived to a consensus on Discord that everyone wanted an official community pool with zero fees.

Made some good progress with setting it up today and it should be ready to start testing publicly. It has mined blocks, they've cleared, and payments went through so it's looking good so far.  For anyone that has miners and is willing to test, here's the link:

https://pool.our-rapture.com/ 
-o stratum+tcp://pool.our-rapture.com:4233 -a neoscrypt -u <WALLET_ADDRESS>

Beyond this, looking more at the issue we're facing with zpool (and really any pool that operates in a similar fashion), we're looking for additional ways to mitigate the impact they're having. The problem is that they're both an auto-switching pool and an auto-selling pool.  They have an average of 2,000 miners and as soon as Rapture's mining difficulty drops to a certain level relative to other projects, a big amount of those miners automatically start mining Rapture and those rewards get automatically dumped on exchanges.  With our mining block rewards being 7 Rapture and having 2 minute blocks, this is giving them a significant amount that is being unloaded on exchanges and having this eroding effect. One of the more extreme, but probably also more effective, approaches would be to re-balance block rewards......lower the mining rewards and raise the masternode rewards. This might not outright eliminate it, but will absolutely reduce the impact it's having. This change would be a mandatory update, so we wanted to float this idea now to see what the feedback is. Feel free to drop into the Discord server to discuss! https://discord.gg/NMgQEn8

[theonlyone]

what is ratpure RPC port?

is it 14776 or 14777 ?

[hongvubt]

We wanted to follow up on some discussions about exchange trades that were being done at low prices, and the question as to why amounts were being sold so far below the lowest current ask offers.

We did some digging and found that one pool in particular, zpool.ca, is currently mining a significant amount of blocks and the rewards are being automatically sold at regular intervals on exchanges far below the lowest asking price.

We don't believe that there's any malicious or damaging intent by the pool, but rather, it's just the result of lazy automation and the fact that they exchange mined rewards for BTC as quickly as possible -  no is one looking at the spread, nor making informed decisions. It's not a natural buying/selling process, in fact it's basically a selling bot - and the problem is compounded by overall low volume.

We've requested that zpool remove us from their pool, but they may not choose to co-operate so we're looking at other options that would help mitigate or eliminate the effect they're having.

One potential solution we are considering, is selecting an established pool that does NOT do automatic payouts in BTC - and setting up a promotion to encourage users to switch away from "damaging" pools such as zpool, and join our selected pool. Right now bsod provides a significant amount of the hash power, so they would be the obvious choice.

A second option would be to setup our own official pool with 0% fees. We would handle the operations and expenses of this pool and it would be not-for-profit. If a fee were ever added, the full amount would be donated to charities.

We'd love to get community feedback on either of these approaches.

Miners simply want to get back their money as soon as possible, maybe pressure of electricity bills.

[RaptureCoreDev]

what is ratpure RPC port?

is it 14776 or 14777 ?

Hey! Can you update your quote to remove the entire quoted ANN post.....these recent posts have some important information and visibility is lost when the ANN post is being quoted in the thread....please edit your message, thanks!

RPC port is 14776

[crackfoo]

Hi,

We've added RAP to the miners multipool: www.zpool.ca

neoscrypt pool:

http://www.zpool.ca/site/gomining?algo=neoscrypt

Blocks found by zpool:

http://www.zpool.ca/site/block?id=2976

Cheers!

We've dropped RAP from the pool. Those miners that were getting paid in RAP will no longer. Please switch to some other currency to get paid in.

[SecsiTrader]

Thank you zpool! We as a community appreciate your understanding!

[RaptureCoreDev]

We've dropped RAP from the pool. Those miners that were getting paid in RAP will no longer. Please switch to some other currency to get paid in.

Very much appreciated, at this point the autoswap pool mechanics combined with the autoswitching hashing power have been a major challenge in recent weeks. We appreciate the support and wish the best to zpool!

[ACat]

We've dropped RAP from the pool. Those miners that were getting paid in RAP will no longer. Please switch to some other currency to get paid in.

Very much appreciated, at this point the autoswap pool mechanics combined with the autoswitching hashing power have been a major challenge in recent weeks. We appreciate the support and wish the best to zpool!

But it seems that Zpool charges too high compared to other pools