Guys looking at this coin for the first time due to the recent pump..
Its cheaper (and way faster) to buy coins off the shelf than to mine it.
When you mine VC, you get those coins after 2000 blocks. In the last 24 hrs less than 300 blocks were mined.
This means you will need one week approx with this difficulty and same hashrate to get the first block you helped mine.

You can get a headstart by just getting the coins off the shelf..
Anyway weekly appreciation in price for this coin is huge. the mining payout in coins has gone down while the price has sharply moved up.
Take the advantage in the exchanges when the prices are still where they are and the occasional dips.

Of course this is my personal opinion.. :-)

Buy and hold as long as you can - sell only what you need to run some of your expenses and buy again at lower levels, there will be occasional drops.
But the future is bright for this coin. It's yet to hit the bigger exchanges.

While the coins on coinexchange expect big upward moves. it makes sense buying this coin even at 5000 sats. it will only go up!

Good luck..