What do you mean "not profitable" mr newbie? Do you mean not mooning? Because profitability at the current coinmarkets rate, if it ever comes back online lol, is just fine. As for mooning, has anything mooned without marketing? Or has anything with marketing not mooned? Get a couple of your busty friends to make poly youtube videos, and you will see a spike.

Meanwhile, I believe I made a "discovery". I tried ccminer on my 940mx laptop, to find that the gap between the 940mx and the 980gt is much bigger with poly. So basically either poly needs the bigger cards or, more likely, ccminer-poly needs more optimization. (and/or there is a clandestine fee in the binary for poly!)

PS I am not a Poly shill at all, it is just part of my new small-time mining strategy: get a few thousand coins in new coins and move on to the next. May end up the year with dozens of wallets of thousands of sweet nothings lol, but a little mining of something more established makes no sense, if you have the cash for electricity and hardware better to buy and hodl.