ZenCash and IOHK Partner for Research and Development. The ZenCash and IOHK partnership will entail an exciting series of research and development led by Prof. Roman Oliynykov, a cryptographer, IT security researcher, lecturer, and IOHK Research Fellow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGzhJkAnUmQ

Great point, i heart our community

Appreciate the feedback...the teams are working extremely hard to get the project to the next level.

When are secure nodes payments going to be resumed? Any forecast or schedule? I think I read it was going to resume in mid-January.

The original Zencash was separated from the Zclassic, and the team was very strong. It was a very potential coin, and the future was bright.

You can use any Equihash compatible miner software.  You could try all 3 you listed above and see which one works better for you.  Different software will give you different results... but there are several factors that affect your mining performance.  Drivers, over/underclock settings, power limit, silicon lottery, latency to pool, pool luck, and plenty more.

Suprnova has, depending on the current network hashrate, between 35 and 43% of the network weight, so in order to support decentralization and prevent a 51% attack possibility, could you please recommend any other mining pool?
I can highly recommend https://zenmine.pro/ with 0% fee or https://luckpool.org/ with 0,5% fee and 10% jackpot for the block finder. https://zen.2miners.com is also good and supports solomining as well.

I'm using bminer as it's almost 5% more effecient than dstm and ewbf with my 1070 Ti's.

https://blog.zensystem.io/secure-node-payment-update-1-15-18/
Dev Team working on that, and i hope we can hear more news in coming biweekly update.

I truly believe the partnership with IOHK will be awesome! It'd would be so amazing if Zencash could have a sustainable scaling solution. Really looking forward to see how the research and development goes.

No worries, I just wanted to point out that it would be better if less people would be mining zen at suprnova and more at other pools in order to support decentralization of Zencash. I have mined at all of those pools mentioned by me above, but I prefer zenmine.pro over the others as it has had no downtimes since I have been mining there.

Suprnova is mediocre at best.