XZC is hit on MPH now that everyone has jumped on board. That and the 20K+ difficulty has halved my daily take. Looking for other options .....
Nemo/ahashpool. Look no further. And mph is giving some people hard time mining xzc, while others seem to be doing just fine hashrate wise.
1) Yes use nemo and ahash if you want to work for food. Nicehash slavery is also an option

2) It was explained many times. Those who are doing fine with MPH are using correct miner.
1) whatever rocks your cage mate
2)explanations aside, i`ve tried djm34 both ccminers, both cuda 9 and the older one, tried other cc forks as well. no improvement. i should be getting around 40k at least, yet the pool is constantly reporting 34000 mh/s...
Just noticed and dunno, maybe it was there before.. but you can mine zcoin on ahashpool as well...