Hey there,
i just installed a fresh Ubuntu system and compiled zcash and started it.
My problem is that the blockchain download shows 467 blocks after 8 hours of downloading. 
Does anyone have an idea for me on how i can speedup that process?
Testnet was reset to RC2 the latest block is 615 .
Type this
~/zcash/./src/zcash-cli getinfo
What block do you get ?
and on “connections” how many connections do you have ?
Sounds good so i am soon on last block 
I have 3 connections. Hope the testpools will change to this blockchain so i can test mining.
Zmine.io is mining on this chain. Suprnova is apparently still mining on a private testchain.
Thank you for this info so what pool would you suggest? One of them alreasy support stratum for gpu miners when they are ready?
Here’s a mining pool list available: