After one year of mining, I just stopped my small time mining operation 
In the past 4 months, I was paying so much for power, my bills were so high, and I was barely making anything. Not even close to breaking even each month. Now I just buy direct, and cloud mine. I have to keep the feeling of getting new coins each day. I think I will turn on my miners maybe for a week each month (maybe).
But I will say what a year experience it has been. From being ripped off and miners never coming that I paid for from minersource/blackarrow (prospero x-1), and from cloud mining sites shutting down after 2 months of offering service (GAW miners).
In the past 4 months, I was paying so much for power, my bills were so high, and I was barely making anything. Not even close to breaking even each month. Now I just buy direct, and cloud mine. I have to keep the feeling of getting new coins each day. I think I will turn on my miners maybe for a week each month (maybe).But I will say what a year experience it has been. From being ripped off and miners never coming that I paid for from minersource/blackarrow (prospero x-1), and from cloud mining sites shutting down after 2 months of offering service (GAW miners).
I am on the fence of shutting down my 7 S3's - I live in SF and feel like I am actively losing money, but I enjoy doing what I can to decentralize the network.
I wish it wasn't so slanted by silicon/ASIC producers with access to cheap power.
I also got ripped off $6000 by bitmine in 2014 with a miner/refund that never came.
I wish there weren't so many bad people motivated by greed in this world.
I still believe in bitcoin.
buy bitcoin instead, leave this mining thing for the big farms, don't need to play their dirty game
also this is the right time to buy, the price is good and stable