I took you up on your offer to check out Dero and threw a little bit of hashpower your way. I have to echo the concern that difficulty ratchets up too high relative to ones hashrate. For example, difficulty starts at 100 on port 3333 but climbs to >100k after 7 minutes. With a single RX 570 (~700 H/s) this results in several minutes between shares. While I understand intellectually that higher difficulty shares are worth more, from an irrational/emotional perspective I'd like to see difficulty set so that my miner gets a share every 30 to 60 seconds.

As for the dero.pool.live pool, I like the auto-refresh and estimated mining profits calculator (esp. since this coin isn't on whattomine, minethecoin, etc.). However, last night around 03:00 GMT the pool seemed to have gotten overloaded to the point xmr-stak gave up on it and I woke up this morning to an idle rig which, let me tell you, is annoying as all get out (it seems that rigs never crash when you are awake and watching them - amirite?).