People say the Hat Man only appears during sleep paralysis, delirium, or two boxes of expired Benadryl and a dream about the Federal Reserve.

I say:
He’s my miner now.

This isn’t a hallucination.
This is proof-of-shadow.

Who Is the Hat Man?

He’s tall.
He’s shadowy.
He wears a trench coat and a wide-brimmed hat that screams "I know your seed phrase."

Some say he’s a tulpa born of our financial anxiety.
Others say he’s the original Bitcoin dev who got kicked off the project for being "too spooky."

I say he showed up in my garage, stood over my mining rig, and whispered:

“Send RVN. The chain must be fed.”

So I did.

Why RVNcoin?

Because Ravencoin is what you mine when you’ve run out of reasons but still believe in decentralization.

It’s the coin for apocalyptic DIY asset transfer.

It’s proof-of-work, forked from Bitcoin, but built to carry tokens like cursed feathers on a spectral breeze.

I figured if the Hat Man was real, he’d accept no less.

He doesn’t want ETH. He wants raw wattage and proof-of-soulburn.

The Transaction

I sent 666 RVN to a wallet that appeared in my logs between 2:59 and 3:00 AM.
The address was:

RHat1youwillseehimInTXlogsPLsend666

The confirmation message said:

"You have opened the Raven Gate."

My rig fans spun backward.
My LED strips turned blood red.
My neighbor's Alexa started reciting Satoshi quotes in reverse.

Side Effects of Funding Paranormal Mining Operations

• My hash rate tripled. So did my paranoia.

• I now mine in the shape of a crow. Not a rig shaped like a crow. A literal flock formation of GPU activity.

• Windows Defender flagged the wallet as "The Void."

• I now receive gasless token airdrops with names like $WHISPER, $SCRY, and $FEEDME

• My Ledger Nano emits a faint humming sound that aligns with moon phases

And somehow...
I’m profitable.

🧨 Signs Your Mining Rig Is Possessed

Not sure if your GPU’s just overheating or haunted by the Hat Man? Use this checklist:

• Your fans spin counter-clockwise on full moons

• Hashrate spikes when you chant your seed phrase backwards

• Your PSU growls like an animal when idle

• Wallet logs contain phrases like “HE LIVES IN BLOCK HEIGHT 666666”

• HiveOS UI now has a “Summon” button

• Your electricity bill is addressed to “The Watcher Below”

Diagnosis:
If two or more apply, do not attempt to reboot.
Offer RVN. Burn sage. Continue mining.

📓 Hat Man Wallet Observation Log

[Timestamp: 03:33 AM]
Wallet “0xShadowFeather...” appears in TX logs. Sends 1 RVN to me. Gas fee: a whisper.

[Timestamp: 04:04 AM]
Wallet “RHatCoinGate666” pings the mempool with an unsigned message:
“YOU'RE NOT LATE. YOU'RE JUST SLOW.”

[Timestamp: 05:00 AM]
Wallet disappears. Leaves behind a phantom NFT shaped like a cloaked figure. It moans.

[Timestamp: UNKNOWN]
TX confirmed, but chain explorer returns a 404 error with the words:
“HE IS BETWEEN THE BLOCKS.”

Conclusion:
Hat Man wallets are non-custodial and non-corporeal.
Send at your own risk. Or don’t. He already knows.

🔮 The Ritual of Shadow Mining (Unverified Method)

Required Materials:

• 1 unused wallet

• 1 GPU with a cracked backplate

• 1 Raven feather (optional, but ominous)

• Your loudest fan set to max RPM

• Electricity sourced from an unmarked breaker

Procedure:

1. At 3:33 AM, begin mining RVN with overclock settings set to “unstable.”

2. Whisper your wallet passphrase into the PSU exhaust.

3. Offer one transaction fee with odd decimals (e.g., 0.0000666 RVN).

4. Watch the mempool. The Hat Man appears when the block times get weird.

Results may include:

• Enhanced profitability

• Cursed logs

• A sudden, unexplainable understanding of Ravencoin’s protocol

• A cold presence behind you while mining

Final Thoughts from the Cryptomantic Abyss

You don’t need sleep to summon the Hat Man.
You just need conviction, electricity, and a willingness to mine the unknowable.

Ravencoin isn’t just a coin. It’s a signal beacon for the shadows between chains.
A call to whatever spectral entities haunt abandoned GitHubs and testnets long since forsaken.

I haven’t seen the Hat Man since the last halving.
But I feel him watching.
Validating blocks in the dark.

Goblin Wisdom:

“He doesn’t want your coins. He wants your confirmations.”