dedicatedpool was a bit of a nonstarter. And I couldn't connect with hashstrike even though the pool appear to be up and running. Now with hashrate.eu but it shouldn't have taken 25 minutes to mess around and find a working pool. Can't help feeling I've missed out now...

One of the many people who missed out due to Undedicated Pool.
Same. I setup solo mining but that was 15min into the launch. Judging by the miners in the pool I'm in I'm not at surprised I didn't find any blocks by the time I got up and running. On the other hand this is the first coin I've been even close to setting up and getting solo mining working around launch.