I have an AMD card R9 290 / windows10, and mining with claymore.
I´m in luckpool now with 235 H/s but the best option for me are zogpool or luckpool?
Here is how I do quick probability estimates on hashrates and expected returns.
Find the ~ time it will take to find a block.
difficulty (d) = 43160562 Sol/s
your hash rate (s) = 235
block time (b) = 2 minutes
( 1/s/d * b ) / 60 = # of hours to find a block
P(b) = s/d = 235/43160562 = 0.00000544478545
1/0.00000544478545 = 183661.965964 blocks
183661.96596415015765 * 2 = 367323.931928 / 60 = 6122.06 hours or 255 days.
I personally wouldn’t mine hoping to get a block in 255 days. But keep in mind if you did find that one block it would largely out pay the cost to run 235h/s. If you get lucky enough.
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Greetings,
I was able to connect and began mining @ zogpool.org:3357 yesterday. After a little over 12 hrs I do not see any payments, payments pending, or stats other than “1 GPU” and “1200 H/s”, and miner seems to be hashing away.
Curious, is this a volunteer thing? Should I be seeing at least a pending payment after 12 hrs? Thanks…x
@Mr.x it sounds like you’re used to large pools. You wouldn’t have a pending payment after 12 hours because zogpool hasn’t found a block during that period. The upside of using a smaller pool, in addition to promoting a diverse selection of pool options, is that when we do find a block, you get a much larger share. Your income (in ZEC) should be the same whether you are part of large pool the discovers multiple blocks hourly, or a smaller one that discovers blocks every few days, assuming the fees are the same.
You can see stats for the pool at large here: http://zogpool.org/#!/coin/ZEC At the bottom you can see the two blocks we’ve found in the past week.
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@CCQ, Thank you for the good info!
I had skimmed past the post where voxelot had mentioned payment for a previous block. Sitting home healing up from job related injury, I built a miner out of boredom.
I am fine with waiting, in fact am pleased to be of some help with my little mining rig!
Best to you…X
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changed to zogpool 
tkz voxelot
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I mined zogpool for one day, and we found a block, my avg. hashrate was around 200 S/s … and I got a payment of 0.16 ZEC … that was very nice :)))))))) (was mining flypool for a week before that and I think i didnt make that much all together)
Right now I’m being greedy and trying to get paid for what I put into my 2 GPU simple mining rig, so I’m running a local pool for it and waiting for that single block that will give me full ROI 
… needless to say … its been a week now and yet no block 
Yes you can get paid a constant rate on a large pool, but if many smaller pools were spawned around … more blocks will be distributed among these pools … and payments will be larger (maybe not as frequent) but at least there will be a more distributed network of things instead of having two or three huge pools !!!
I guess
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Luckpool backup. Sorry for the delay. I just got home from the holidays so I will be putting restart scripts on the server today. Expect short outages.
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Not sure where else to post this, but for someone trying to run a business mining, it seems like it would be wise to spread your sol/s among more than one basket, especially when there are so few baskets available.
What happens if a big pool pulls out or is otherwise compromised, or the few bigs conspire on fees or even hidden skimming? Here, zogpool offers well-regarded devs who are likely to be loyal to zcash and more likely to reinvest in the zcash ecosphere than big multicoin pools.
Why wouldn’t folks divert at least some of their sol/s here to keep their options open and at the very least keep a good lifeboat at the ready so there’s no need to start from scratch when bad things happen.
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I suppose I should ask, if Claymore will even work in the luckpool? It seems to be hashing away. Have been vetting AMD drivers the past few days, happy to report, Radeon Crimson 16. 6. 2. seems fast and tough as nails on rx 480 nitro, win 10, claymore 8.0.
Best to you…x
Yes claymore should work. Thanks for reporting!
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Cant see my workers hash…how often do you update pool?
How much minimum has to be for miner to show? I have couple of ~2 h/s workers
[quote=“voxelot, post:1, topic:8668, full:true”]
Welcome to Zogpool & now with solo mining Luckpool! Get 100% of the block reward for being the miner that finds the winning solution. No shares here, it’s all or nothing. Not for the faint of heart. Using these pools supports eXtremal and open source technology. We will make donations to eXtremal as well as continue to support his code base with our developers. This pool is very much a community effort. Instructions on running your own pool can be found here.
http://zogpool.org - Regular PPLNS pool.
http://luckpool.org - SOLO Mining Reward pool.[/quote]
I post links to this thread elsewhere when appropriate. I recommend the following changes to the first paragraph (which gets autoquoted with my links) that I think improves its clarity and may help increase adoption.
[quote=“voxelot, post:1, topic:8668, full:true”]
Welcome to Zogpool! Run by very Zcash-loyal developers who have been working for the community since before day one. You can also try solo mining at Luckpool, which offers 100% of the block reward to the miner that finds the winning solution. No shares at Luckpool, it’s all or nothing. Not for the faint of heart. Using these pools supports eXtremal and open source technology. We will make donations to eXtremal as well as continue to support his code base with our developers. These pools are very much a community effort. Instructions on running your own pool can be found here.
http://zogpool.org - Regular stratum pool using PPLNS.
http://luckpool.org - SOLO Mining Reward pool for larger miners or gamblers[/quote]
Just trying to be helpful, use any changes you find useful.
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As long as your miner says that it is connected to the pool server, the api will respond to the front end with a worker and show low hash rates. The stats update ~ every minute atm.
I am currently refactoring how the power is calculated / reported by the pool backend. This will also allow the pool to be var diff and report correct power.
I have seen your posts and thank you for all of kind words and suggestions for others to try our pool. I like your edits and will change the topic header.
I have seen a lot of other pools started with eXtremal backend (even one with a fancy frontend). I will update the zog repos so everyone can share an improved pool infrastructure.
It shows my worker’s 0 next to sols/s ,which is different from what miner says…
As long as your miner reports shares accepted, you are in the database.
Please be patient as I dev improved reporting.
This is a side project until enough interest is shown by the amount of solutions pumped into the pools.
Cheers
Can I have 1 worker with multiple miners or
1 worker for every miner?
or doesnt matter?
Thank you 
I have found that each running instance of your mining program (across one or multiple computers) can have the same t (transparent) address. You can append a dot and a worker name to the t address to keep track of individual workers.
Congratz to t1cD15YDU145TQWozgaLEU1KtcqZxi6Kiue for finding block 19146 on www.luckpool.org with only 6000 sol/s.
Thinking about turning my 2000 sol/s over there in hopes of a 10 zec payout.