What is the Evrmore (EVR) blockchain, the airdrop, how it can help Ravencoin and how to mine it?
Evrmore (EVR) is described as Ravencoin’s code cousin. It is a fork of RVN that seeks to co-exist with the chain rather than to compete with it. The chain was also built by current and former RVN developers with a focus on expanding Ravencoin’s capabilities.
Evrmore gives developers a place to test new UTXO DeFi modules without risking the Ravencoin code. If it works and the community desires it, implementations could be backported to Ravencoin.
— CryptoLifeCrysis Twitter
The $EVR Airdrop 💧
The EVR coin has been airdropped to the top 50k Ravencoin wallets. The top 50k RVN wallets has gotten the EVR airdrop equivalent to the amount of Ravencoin currently being held. For example, if you were holding 10,000 RVN, then you got 10,000 EVR from the airdrop. This would be considered 1:1. The Evrmore blockchain snapshot happened at Ravencoin’s block #2,510,000. However, it does not end there, the Evrmore will still have to be claimed by each address in the top 50k in the first 60 days to be obtained. 60 days is an important metric which you can read on below.
As far as I know, to get the airdrop, you will have to put your Ravencoin seed phrase into the Evrmore Core wallet to get the EVR coin.
The Windows and Linux binaries will be released for evrmored, evrmore-qt (the node with integrated wallet), and evrprogpowminer (the NVIDIA GPU miner) at the same time on 10/28 if all goes well.
Airdropped EVR must be moved to a new EVR address within 60 days after the airdrop. Any airdropped EVR UTXOs not spent after 60 days will expire, making them unspendable and effectively burned. That mechanism will remove EVR from the coin supply which represented burned, lost, or disinterested RVN.
—Hans Schmidt, Evrmore Developer
About Mining $EVR ⛏️
Evrmore will be using a mining algorithm called EvrProgPow which is short for Evrmore Programmatic Proof of Work (POW). Proof of work, in this case equates to mining with GPU’s. This platform, like Ravencoin, will also be asic resistant, which increases decentralization.
To start, Evrmore will have a 3GB dag with an epoch length of 12000 blocks and an increase in the DAG size every 12000 blocks. It has been determined that it will be mineable on windows & HiveOS. At the start, it is said to be a solo mining effort until 3rd party closed source miners makes the needed adjustments for it to work. Additionally, pool software will not be affected between EverProgPow and Kawpow. The start of mining is said to begin October 28th.
I will post a specific step by step guide here for mining on Windows & HiveOS when EVR is officially mineable. Feel free to follow my Medium and checkout my Twitter to be notified when I update this article with the guides.
If all goes well, the binaries will be available for mining start on Friday 10/28. I propose to target mid-afternoon Europe time, which will be not-too-early-time in USA and not-too-late-time in Asia. Source code will be made available after mining stabilizes. With DGW that should occur more quickly than it did for Ravencoin, so 2 days delay should be plenty of time for the chain to stabilize and build some accumulated difficulty.
— Hans Schmidt, Evrmore Developer
Wallets Possibly Work for EVR Airdrop
I say possibly because it is up to you to fully understand and know if a wallet will work. I do not want to take responsibility saying it will work and then it does not. I am listing every wallet that is believed to work and any evidence behind it to back it up. I will continue to update this article with more wallets as they get confirmed. Feel free to send anything to my Twitter. For your own notes, Use a BIP 32/39/44 compatible self custody wallet to get the Evrmore.
✅RavenCore
✅Atomic Wallet
✅MoonTreeWallet — Confirmed to work by developer themselves.
✅MangoFarmAssets
✅Exodus — Has come out and said it will work on Twitter.
✅Trust Wallet
✅Electrum
❌ Crypto.com
❌UpBit
❌FTX
❌KuCoin
The tZERO-10 and Evrmore Conflict
In the subject of tZERO where they emailed all their consumers about Ravencoin not being able to be withdrawal without a 10 day withdrawal process is concerning. This is because 10 days from today makes users go past the snapshot date for the EVR airdrop. tZERO remains in control of your keys. However, there is some light from Tron Black.
tZero (or the custodian they use) has the private keys to access the EVR which will be 1:1 gifted to RVN addresses that fall in the top 50,000 addresses. About 2700 RVN. If tZero doesn’t recover the EVR using the private keys that only they control, then you as RVN “promise” holder can’t get it. “Not your keys, not your coin”
— Tron Black
