I've been out for a few weeks now .

I switched off the last of my miners after winter was over and the weather warmed up and the heat produced was no longer a viable excuse to off setting the running cost.

In my opinion and with bitcoin at its recent price mining directly hasn't been profitable for home miners in most of the developed world for months. Even with the latest 'efficient' hardware regular electricity prices kill it.

The only way it's still profitable is with the latest hardware and dirt cheap electricity which is only available in a few places on the planet and / or if you have commercial premises and work a deal with the electricity supplier.

Money can occasionally still be made if you've got time on your hands and mine newly released coins then dump them within minutes of them appearing on an exchange to convert to bitcoin. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. However it seems that new coin releases are getting fewer and fewer especially half decent ones worth mining with any potential.

So unless you've got efficient hardware and dirt cheap electricity don't bother mining unless it's a hobby, you're better off just buying bitcoin.