Whoever managed to short BTC when it was trading at about eight thousand must have made a real killing out of it. People are only going long and expect to see always gain, while they forget that they can short the market as well and make money while the value is dropping. Instead of investing your money to ETH, just short it, you'll make just as much money as re-investing your money somewhere else. That's if you're a trader. If you're investing you should already have a lot of ETH stakced and shouldn't wait for forks to happen so that you buy ETH. If you're in it for the long-term you better buy some ETH and stick to it, it doesn't make sense to jump from one coin to another if you are a long-term investor.
I mine some ETH and I will keep them for the long term.
I'm plannin to follow the same way, I'll build a mining rig for ETH mining but they said ETH will pass to POS system. This would be bad. Otherwise, its mining would be really nice for long term investors.
Better to pass up if you do plan on small scale ETH mining rig because it wont really be worth of for sure but those rigs you would made can be used on other coins though. It is really pain in the eyes to see how many percentage do difficulty jump on a short period of time which means it would really give less profits overtime but well if you do have the plans because on its potential then mining it and keeping it for longterm is also a good choice too.Price of ETH did decrease in previous weeks but now it is already kicking in.