Good catch. The last round is in fact 25 ZEN.. I will update our news post to reflect this.

Fellow Denizens of ZEN, The Final Round (3) of the 55 Zen Giveaway will be commencing at 2017-07-25 06:00:00 GMT

•    This will be Round 3, The Final Round of the 55 ZEN Giveaway
•    The Round will run as previously until the pot is empty (25 ZEN)
•    As with the past Rounds, the team takes these payments seriously and will not be running the bonus payouts until we are 100% confident all calculations and amounts are correct
•    You will have until July 25, 2017 06:00:00 GMT to join and be mining on the pool to be eligible for these Bonus Payouts *

(*You must be mining on MineZ.Zone prior to the round commencing to be eligible for payouts)

Also, user joshargh has joined the minez.zone team!

https://minez.zone/news#55-round3

Round 2 of our ZEN Giveaway is starting at 2017-06-15 01:30:00 GMT

The round will run until the pot (15 ZEN) is empty.

• Bonus payouts are processed and checked manually. This means you will receive them some time after the last block in the round confirms and has been paid out.
• We take this very seriously and will not be running the bonus payout until we are 100% sure all calculations and amounts are correct.
• You have until June 15, 2017 1:30:00 AM GMT to join the ZEN pool to be eligible for the bonus payouts.

https://minez.zone/news

Round 2 of Minez.Zone's ZEN Bonus Giveaway will start in less than 24 hours!

More Info https://minez.zone/news#55round2

Original announcements
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1819977.msg19389607#msg19389607
https://minez.zone/news#55GiveAway

In other, non end of the world news.

Thanks to @movrcx's donation, our first bonus round is scheduled to start soon.

more info https://minez.zone/news#55round1

Details about round 1 of the giveaway have been posted.

https://minez.zone/news#55round1

Minimum payout 0.1 ZEN, Payouts are default for ZEN at after 100 block confirms.

We have paid out over 450 ZEN so far, far from a scam.

Please see our newly created FAQ https://minez.zone/faq.
It may better help you understand why you don't see instant returns when mining.

Your mining software will show total shares,
The pool shows valid shares for the current round.

When a block is found, the share count resets.

EDIT: Also, if you leave the pool mid round, you run the risk of your shares value reducing to 0 as the pool is pplnt.

PPLNT (pay per last n time)
proportional payouts...everyone gets their earned share  except,  the amount of time is considered
The default is a 51% time period.  you must have mined in the block for at least 51% of the block time to be paid for all of your shares
If the miner was only their for 25% of the block,  then their shares are multiplied by 0.25
The effect is everyone above 51% gets a little more of the block
This is to discourage pool hopping.

You will need to add pools to your rented rig.

For us the following should do

Host: ny1.minez.zone:3043
Address: your zen address
Password: can be anything
Worker name: can be anything

What is your address?
Did you leave the pool after a short time?

If this happened just recently, we just got 2 blocks.
Your share count resets after blocks are found.

Your share count will also diminish over time if you leave the pool for an extended period.

http://minez.zone is still 0% fee, and will remain so for the month of June.
The top 100 miners on the pool (by Address) for the month of June will have lifetime 0 fees too :wink:
Which currently is everyone who is mining with us!

Payouts will start processing shortly.

To quote myself.

Sorry for the down time

MineZ.zone

Something crashed our zend and the fail over didn't kick in.
Naturally after a 17 hour day, this happened while we slept.

Things are back online now.
Thanks

We are chugging along nicely here at MineZ since we all got on the latest commit.

*touchwood

Things should remain fairly stable now.
Any time it goes down, all of your miners should resume as normal when it comes back up.

Sure, if you are only running a say 1-4 graphics cards, then the lowest difficulty should suit you fine.
Then say ~4-15 the middle should start you out pretty well.
Above that go the highest.

No matter which one you chose, vardiff will kick in and settle you on an appropriate speed for your setup..

ZEN is up and mining!

If you need a ZEN wallet address we have a system up to get you going right away... Your trust in us will be greatly appreciated.