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Interest in Ravencoin explodes as Ethereum miners flock to mine RVN instead ETH

Interest in Ravencoin explodes as Ethereum miners flock to mine RVN instead ETH

After the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem went through the long-awaited Merge update that officially marked its transition from the Proof-of-Work (PoW) to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm, it has led to some interesting developments in the crypto space as miners start to look for alternatives.

Indeed, interest in Ravencoin (RVN) has soared, placing it at the top of the cryptocurrency trending list, ahead of Ethereum, Ethereum Classic (ETC), Bitcoin (BTC), and Shiba Inu (SHIB), according to data retrieved from CoinMarketCap on September 15.

Top 5 trending cryptos in the last 24 hours. Source: CoinMarketCap

As the data shows, miners have flocked to the alternative chain en masse in this major mining shift, leading to the explosion of Ravencoin’s hash rate, which soared 541% in the two weeks leading up to the Merge – between September 1 and September 15.

Ravencoin hash rate. Source: CoinWarz

Merge helps Ravencoin soar

In addition, CoinMarketCap data demonstrates that the value of Ravencoin has increased nearly 75% over the previous seven days, as miners increasingly see RVN as an adequate substitute for ETH mining in the post-Merge environment.

This environment is leaving PoW ETH miners with increasingly fewer options – switching to other chains (like Ravencoin) or stopping mining altogether and becoming Ethereum stakersearning staking rewards under the new PoS process.

The success of Ravencoin can also be attributed to the announcement by the crypto exchange FTX of the listing of RVN perpetual futures on September 12. These futures allow people to speculate on where RVN will go from the current point in time and hold their positions.

It is also worth noting that Ravencoin, which was established in 2018, uses a PoW consensus algorithm and the RVN tokens issued on it can be used for many different things, just like ETH, such as decentralized applications (DApps) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Ravencoin (RVN) price analysis

Meanwhile, the Ravencoin token is trading at $0.06293 at press time, down 0.77% on the day, but up a whopping 74.77% across the previous seven days. 

Ravencoin 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap

As per CoinMarketCap data, the market capitalization of RVN currently stands at $704.32 million, placing the decentralized finance (DeFi) token in 60th place among all cryptocurrencies according to this indicator.

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