So, is the mining started yet?

NO!! say that it starts on November 1, maybe later
but i'm still I think that this is a failed campaign

We'd be lucky to see a working wallet to claim our 1:1 BTG by then. All BTG has accomplished up until now is crashing the alts.

I strongly doubt that the course of the BTG will be high, and as soon as it starts to merge, it will still go well and in the end of BTG