Here we have the fourth "Skepticism Sunday" post for Ravencoin. Hopefully it's useful to people, I've started to adapt this post to answer the more frequent questions and link to key information to hopefully get more interesting discussions going.

This post is for critically discussing any concerns people have about Ravencoin and its future. The idea is to strengthen the project by alleviating concerns, identifying flaws and hopefully organising solutions to them.

PLEASE NO PRICE DISCUSSION 🙂

This idea is borrowed from the Monero community and you can view the original reasoning behind it in this post.

Why a weekly post for this?

This weekly post isn't meant to replace or dissuade people from making individual posts of their concerns about Ravencoin. Rather, there are plenty of small concerns/talking points that perhaps aren't discussed on the subreddit as people don't believe they warrant a standalone post. It seems a lot of this smaller questions are asked over on the Discord server but get eventually lost in the chat history; a weekly post is easier to archive and look back on as well as giving more people a chance to respond. Again, the intent is to ask difficult questions, identify potential problems and strengthen the project.

Participation

• Read the whitepaper first. A lot of the basics of the project can be found here.
• Post your concerns and thoughts below.
• Be constructive. Please avoid low quality posts.
• If you have an opinion about something that someone has written then please feel free to reply; you don't have to be an expert or a developer.
• If possible, try to think of an upvote as "I think this is a valid point that needs to be discussed".
• Please refrain from discussing price (unless relevant).
• Lastly, keep it respectful!

Resources

• Again, the Ravencoin whitepaper.
• Ravencoin wiki.
• Original Ravencoin announcement on Bitcointalk
• Ravencoin Foundation blog.
• Ravencoin asset explorer.
• Great twitter thread of recent Ravencoin news by /u/Jeroz_

FAQs

Q: "What is Ravencoin/what makes it different?"

A: "Ravencoin is a code fork of Bitcoin, fair launch, proof of work mined chain with an asset aware protocol that allows users to easily create and manage unique digital assets. That’s it."

To learn more. Read the whitepaper.

Q: "What are people doing to promote RVN?"

A: Check out the Ravencoin foundation (their blog can be found here).

Q: "Ravencoin sounds awesome in theory but who is using it?

A: Have a look on the front page of the wiki.

Unanswered Questions

"Ok a simple question from a noob about future use. How is it different from XRP for money/asset trasfer? I know that with RVN one can make some digitally signed physical items. But that's also coming to XRP, right? Just wondering on the specific use." – /u/pawcisq

Previous Weeks

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1

If you have any suggestions to improve this initial post or improve the format then feel free to comment below or message me. Especially the "resources" or "FAQ" sections of this post. It would be greatly appreciated.