you should join Slack man, there is some very good miners there who can help you.
For the trusted setup, yes it's one question, some people don't believe Zcash setup. I can't imagine it was a conspiracy lol, but at some point Zclassic will maybe to redo it. We will see, Devs are working on a road map, hey guys the coin is very young, give it sometime

Call me a NEWB but, I've never used slack? A quick look at slack .com, I guess I'd need to be a member of a team in order to use it.... how do I join? Link?
Been screwing around with both wired and wireless voice, text and data communications since the early 90's
Been messin' with Linux since 2004 - RHEL, Ubuntu, Tiny Core etc both cmd line and GUI
Been mining various crypto for the last 3+ years
BUT, I never used Slack ....
Sorry mate ^^ Slack is like the new IRC (but with $$$) now... yes on official website you need to ask for an invite (don't ask me why we can't simply give a link)...