To those looking for alternative pools:

When I had the D3s in my basement, I got interested in p2pool for dash. I mined on a few public nodes, but at the end some nodes were actually non paying at all.

So at the end I set up a personal p2pool node and mined with it for a few weeks. It was more profitable than the other pools. Payments were immediate at maturity, given directly from the miner fees as they came trough.

I there's interest, I could spin the node up again and give you the IP address to mine on. No fees or strings attached. I'll do it out of curiosity and personal fun.

Please reply if interested.