I'm using Nvidia cards, which use either EBWF or DSTM.  DSTM seems to be the preferred miner at the moment, getting a few % more hashing power per card.

Most of the pools should have a "getting started" page which will help you get the config correct, or you can post here and we can make sure it's correct.

And again, I'll give a shout out to mine at www.viciousminer.com.  ;-)

Any of the pools listed on the opening post (page 1) that donate to the community fund are good.  Personally I'm using www.viciousminer.com.  Look for his add a couple posts above.

Welcome aboard!

Use the links found here.
http://bitcoinzguiding.ovh/wallet.html

I don't think 20 hours is nearly long enough to judge the pool.  The difficulty on btcz has bounced between 40 and 90 several times the past 24 hours.  Some days you will get more "lucky" than others.  There are lots of factors.  Stick it out for at least a week, before making any judgement.  Will probably takes even longer than that to see a true average payout for the pool.

Mathematically you should see the same payout over time from any pool after accounting for any pool fee's.

Check the first post on this thread, which has a list of good pools.  Personally I'm using https://www.Viciousminer.com. 

Huge shout out to everyone who donated to my account for the 6 hour hash power drawing.  I think everyone who donated was on there for way over 6 hours!  Thank You!

Cryptorex, Rizzman1000, Dawn, Hash, Odslabs, and Kosc.. Thank You!
And anyone else who donated, but I didn't see, Thank You!

We hit 6 blocks in the first few hours, for a total of about 48,000 btcz.   And then nothing all of last night, lol.

I've donated 10,000 back to the general fund.
TX id = ff9dd95e2b787ee779d56f9ac85b4666f3636cedc6790e1ba171c0506e443528

Thanks again! :

Head over to the slack channel.  A lot of activity on the #General channel, and you can check out the Developer channel too.

https://bitcoinzcoin.slack.com

Welcome aboard!

Cool mug btw.  I'll might buy one!  Though I'm sort of being a Scrooge with my coins. 

In work, but you can try to sell it here.

https://www.flipmybitz.com/

From the Slack channel, a great response by rizzman1000
[rocketchat] <rizzman1000> APP 6:38 PM

@frederick (1 of 3) For me, there are a lot of things that I can see being distinct... 1. Foremost is the scarcity issue. All these coins that you mentioned are currently well over $100 just for 1 denomination of currency. This is primarily due to the level of scarcity people have built into other coins due to max supply of only a few million, when we have 5 billion people in the world today. Bitcoin, LTC, Monero, Zcash, ETH, etc... will NEVER be adopted fully for this reason... the currency needs to be within reach of the working poor / middle class for it to be truly useful for things such as buying a gallon of milk, or a cup of coffee.   and I am sorry but nobody within this socioeconomic strata are going to sit and try to calculate "do I spend" .0001 LTC for my cup of coffee, or is it .0001?"  - Nobody is going to do that. Now, with BTCZ, there is a 21 billion coin supply, so in a theoretical scenario, every person on earth today could have at least 4 coins each assuming all things equal. because of this amount we will never see this coin going to $20k per coin, but $3.00 per coin is a very real possibility in the long term future. which at this point, buying a gallon of milk would cost approx 1 BTCZ

@frederick (2 of 3) ... Currently, the only other coins that have any kind security or lets just say, Privacy are Zcash, Monero , Zencoin, or Hush.... without going into the details regarding premines / support / founders fees the biggest distinction that can be made is for adoption feasibility. You say we support anarchy, I completely disagree with this and here is an examples why. Do you realize that everything you buy with a credit card / debit card is tracked by Big data for credit agencies? furthermore did you know that those same agencies are drawing a conclusion of your creditworthiness based off what you buy on daily basis? This is huge... for example, one of the biggest known indicators that a person is credit worthy is if they buy cup coasters?.... Insane right? But happens!, This is literally being used to decide, how much you will make (if your job looks at credit) or if you can own a house, or how much you get charged for credit.... all of this matters because currently you have no real good options to transfer money without big data seeing what your doing and forming opinions about you in the process. Other than walking around briefcases full of money for any major transactions you make, and even still they are going to want to know what you are using it for when you withdraw it. THIS is a big reason why you need and should demand privacy.

@frederick (3 of 3) Lastly, Perhaps the most biggest things about this coin is that its not distinct in that it is following the same path of development as Bitcoin, and LTC.. There is no premine, no ICO, no central development authority... Yet you still have so many people stepping forward to do things to make it easier, and more useful to use. This is what ultimately will make this coin great, Not whitepapers, or well known devs... but because any developers out there can bring an idea forward and revolutionize the entire project... This is the ultimate strength of the project, and because of this it will continue to grow. I hope this helps with your concerns.

... And I just switched from EBWF to DSTM earlier today.  :-(  Are you planning to add DSTM to the dashboard too?  Either way, thanks for the pool.  Hoping we hit another block soon!

10 years from now when btcz is the hot sizzle and everyone is using, what happens to the transaction costs?  Will it go up too just like btc's, albeit at a slower rate because of the faster blocktime and larger blocksize?

+1

FYI, I've also used tradsatoshi without any problems.  Created a ZEN wallet, transferred funds, converted to BTC, bought BTCZ, and transferred out to my wallet all in about 20 - 25 minutes.

I think the meteoric rise of BTC is hurting startup coins like BTCZ.  A month ago, to get the same value a BTCZ would be at 50 or 60 satoshi.  A month from now when BTC is at $30,000 USD, our same valued BTCZ will be worth around 8 satoshi.  That makes it hard for BTCZ to have a normal price flux.  A change of 1 satoshi suddenly becomes a really big deal. 

Not sure what the solution is?  There needs to be like micro satoshi's.....  Oh wait... What?  Hey, that's what BTCZ wants to be!

SatoshiZ?  Ha!

Check this out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu8X0aZhDpA

https://www.cryptokitties.co/

I've read here some other user's having slow withdrawals too.  Personally, I've only tried it once about a week ago and had no problems.  Iy showed up in my wallet within 5 minutes or so.

Have you checked an explorer to see if you can see the transaction on the blockchanin?  That will confirm if the problem is with your wallet or with tradesatoshi releasing the coins.

I just checked, and looks like I found a block this morning!  Yeah.  About half way verified, so I assume it will pay out later today.  Just joined the pool yesterday.

Donated some hash power, and btcz to the cause.  I never saw who won the first drawing though?

I just created an account and tried out TradeSatoshi for the first time.  I was reluctant to try it out, as a lot of people are knocking it for being such a small exchange, but I gotta say the user experience was pretty good.  I just bough a bit over 13,000 BTCZ at 27 Satoshi.

I first was going to transfer BTC into TradeSatoshi, but the transaction fee out of Exodus was stupid high.  Instead, I transferred some Zen first.  Then I had to sell it on TradeSatoshi for BTC, which I could then use to buy BTCZ with.  Then I was able to transfer the BTCZ out to my swing wallet.

All told, took about 15 minutes, with most of that waiting for the transactions to be confirmed.  Overall, everything worked exactly as it should.  If you're on the fence about using TradeSatoshi, I can say from my personal experience that it works just fine.

FYI, LuckPool updated so you can manually set your payout. 100 min.  Can someone update the http://bitcoinzguiding.ovh/pools.html website?

If your looking for a SuprNova alternative, I think this is a good one.
Pool around 190 KSols/S, and getting a block or two most hours at current difficulty.  HellCatz is very active on the chat and everyone helpful with questions.  I've been using the pool for a few weeks for Zen, and now BTCZ with no issues.

We aren't trying to say Suprnova is good or bad, the point is we don't want over 50% of the hash rate on any single pool.  In the future, if some other pool gains 51+% of the hash rate, we'll ask miners to stop using that pool too.

Go to the first post, and pick any of the other pools that you wish.  Obviously if they automatically donate Btcz, that's better, but most importantly we want to distribute the hash rate among multiply pools.