Just ran some numbers. I mined $9.13 in XLR in the last 24 hours.
https://whattomine.com/ says I could mine $8.53 selling to Nicehash. I think I will stick around mining until April and not support the Nicehash monster.
Come April, I hope the devs have some good reasons for consumers to buy this coin. The only reason consumers have been buying is for masternodes. I don't think staking is a sufficient reason for consumers to come back. I have other coins that are PoW/PoS, and they are considered shitcoins.
There is a good reason why people would want to buy and hold Solaris and not just for the staking or masternodes and that is for the new exchange that will be released later in the year where people who hold XLR will receive some of the profits that the exchange brings in. Its like earning dividends from stocks but in this case we are holding XLR coins and this is what really drives the stock market as people are always wanting stocks that pay dividends so I can see this being huge for Solaris once the exchange is launched. Also I'm sure the dev team have much more planned for the future.