Price holding steady at around $0.36US / 0.00003 BTC but mining difficulty is above 400M; that's around 4 DERO per day with an RX 570, which makes this extremely unattractive to mine with a GPU at the moment. Tread carefully, those with lots of hashrate.

No command line parameters besides specifying the basics - url:port, username and password. I do my overclocking with MSI AB for now.

Hmm, interesting. My test board with the single GTX 1080 in it has an AMD FX-8300 CPU and so far I haven't had any stability problems with hsrminer, but, then again, I haven't been running it long. I, too, was using ccminer-KlausT before this and had no complaints, just the average hashrate was around 1020 kH/s, so if hsrminer is true to its claims then it's a good 20% faster right off the bat.

I have a lone GTX 1080 FE that I've been playing around with and I am having a really tough time zeroing in on optimization for Neoscrypt. I've found the best mining program for it so far - hsrminer, see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2565979.0 - but tinkering with clock rate and memory and power limit (haven't yet resorted to voltage adjustments) isn't changing things much. Right now I am getting around 1200 kH/s (or is it 1.2 kH/s, as minethecoin insists?) with power limit at 85%, core clock at +150 (actual clock is bouncing around 1725 MHz) and mem clock at +300 (rock steady at 4811 MHz).

These are exactly the same settings I use for Equihash and my understanding is that Neoscrypt can be pushed quite a bit harder... am I far off base here or doing pretty good?

Hmm, I thought I explained that clearly even assuming that English is not your native language... 

The riser will supply power, not the mobo; only data travels between the riser and mobo.

0.000025 what? BTC? Always specify units!

And you are right that it is not terribly profitable to mine right now, but you left out the other half of the reason: the difficulty to find each coin is too high relative to the price (in BTC/$/whatever).

Still, my CPUs don't have anything better to do besides surf the web so I point 2 of them at DERO despite the unattractive difficulty vs. price.

Aye, NiceHack <cough> is a success precisely because it is so easy, and for sure that fee-less transfer to Coinbase is nice (although, you don't have much choice of what to do with BTC once it gets to CB), but it rarely is the most profitable use of your rig.

Right now, according to whattomine, (5) 1070 Ti will bring in ~$21 mining ZClassic (ZCL) based on average difficulty and profitability over the last 24 hours. Or if you want to go with a more exotic coin only tradeable on smaller exchanges there's GoByte (GBX) at ~$25/day.

Disclaimer - I'm fairly new at this myself so not exactly a font of wisdom nor even remotely an authority... Also, chasing profitability on whattomine can be an endless task if you let it. Sometimes I just want to mine a specific coin and damn the torpedoes if it isn't the most profitable. Like I have (3) GTX 1060s mining ZEN even though it is not even close to the most profitable coin for them (ZCL again, but I don't have any ZCL and I do have ZEN, so to minimize transaction fees it is better to mine more of the coin I already have).

EDIT - changed example to (5) 1070 Ti to match OP's rig.

The really important thing to watch - at least for this relative noob - is the mining difficulty vs. coin price; if both are going down then I'll keep mining the same coin, but if price is cratering and difficulty hasn't budged then I point my hashpower elsewhere.

When you use PCIe risers any power the GPU would draw from the PCIe bus on the mobo will instead have to come through the riser.

Does the problem persist if you use a different miner, such as Ethminer 0.12.0?

That's enough hashpower you should go static difficulty.

I think I experienced an attack already. I saw a bunch of errors saying something along the lines of "Connection refused, port 10048 not available", which was odd because I did not specify a remote monitoring port. Just to be safe I stopped the miner and added the switch "-mport 0" to all my batch files that use Claymore (ETH, MUSIC & UBQ). Haven't seen the error since, though I also haven't been doing much Ethash mining, either.

Hah, seek and ye shall find! Ingenious service, are you planning on supporting any more coins in the future? ZEN and/or ZEC would be a natural for escrow service and have low transaction fees.

A steep drop after the wallets came back online was to be expected - a price of $2.88US wasn't realistic for a coin that is barely known. Hell, even $0.77US was a bit much, really.

That said, the current difficulty in the range of 150000000 to 200000000 makes mining much less attractive given the current price of around $0.22US.

I'm still mining it, just with 2 CPUs, rather than using any of my GPUs.

Same here, though I'm not sure I want to chance sending a bigger amount after it took 5 days for my test deposit...

Just an FYI - if you don't properly exit the Windows wallet (1.0.0) then reboot the computer (say, from a power outage) the wallet will crash the next time you try to run it. The solution is to open a cmd.exe window with administrator privileges then execute "trezarcoin-qt -reindex". It takes awhile to reindex, so don't be worried if the wallet seems stuck.

Escrow makes sense, but using poor Phil as the escrow agent sounds awfully burdensome for him!

The pre-Ryzen AMD FX-83xx series CPUs are surprisingly good at Cryptonight mining. I have both a Ryzen 5 1600 that mines at ~400 H/s and an older mobo with a FX-8300 that mines at ~300 H/s; not bad at all, really.

Looks like one you pool operators let sleazy old NiceHack in again... Difficulty is through the roof.

Also some more people to need to move over to mining at https://dero.nitropools.com/ - no fee for now and the UI is much improved over the other DERO pools. I'm pointing one CPU at the official DERO pool and another at nitropools (because it's still not yet possible to have multiple workers on the same wallet address, AFAIK).

I'm curious about the mechanics of doing such a transaction safely.