We have not added any EU pool support as of yet, we would need a decent core group of miners to make another pool first (but it is planned).

Concerning luck, regardless of the pool over a longer period of time all pools invariably operate at around 100%...it's simply based on math and it's a rule that can only be bent in short time hacks. Pools can have bad "luck" but then will eventually have periods of good "luck" as well.

The idea behind The Block Foundry is to help miners become better and more knowledgeable miners all around. Whether you choose to use our pools or not, our mission to to help miners understand the difference between the truth and the marketing hypes and misconceptions in the crypto-space. Most of what we provide is information free of charge to help the block chain revolution. Miners are in integral part of many projects and it's imperative that small to medium sized miners don't become disillusioned and squished out by large operations which leads to centralization.

I am unaware of any such pools for MSR or XTL and I have never seen mention of any in the community listings. They are high risk for pool ops and are not very common because larger miners can take advantage of that type of system along with pool hopping.

You might consider giving our pools a try, they function essentially the same, payouts just don't happen on a time schedule but on a block schedule.

It is almost true 😉 ... Our pools are RBPPS, Round Based PPS. There main difference between RBPPS and PPS is that payouts only happen after a block is found, and there is no payout for orphaned blocks.  We have also enabled slush scored mining on some of the pools to prevent pool hopping and hash ramping, so miners can be assured if they stay on the pool they won't be shorted out of all thier work.

Good work Mr. Optiminer    ด็้็้็้็้็้༼◉Д◉༽ด็้็้็้็้็้   So far about 385-400 sols for a 390, 220-230 for a 380 and up to 300 for a 280x all under windows, so cant complain.  It seems Claymore is playing catchup, but there is a lot of suspense - his next version is coming out quite soon.  oh the excitement lol

ZCash miner for AMD GCN cards.

Download: https://github.com/Optiminer/OptiminerZcash

Supports:

• Windows and Linux 64bit only.
• AMD GCN cards only.

Features

• ZCash stratum.
• Secure ZCash stratum.
• GPU watchdog.
• Logging to file and cmd line.
• Json monitoring port.
• Detailed average hash rate and iterations.

Download: https://github.com/Optiminer/OptiminerZcash

NVIDIA support may be added in a future version.

The miner contains a fee for supporting the dev. All shown hash rates are net rate, i.e., with fee deducted. What you see is what you get!