No offense phillip but not all of is have a solar array for power like u do. Mining was easily more than 2 times more profitable a few months back. The numbers are bad now and this is without taking into account future upcoming difficulty increaaes. There will be those who never break even. Mining at loss is no fun. Bitcoin holders have made alot more than miners in the last year.
it has gone up and down every year since 2012 when I started.
if you look at last years price of coin for march 12 2017 it was 1050 todays price is 9168 so
9168/1050 = 8.73 to 1
if you look at diff for march 17 2017 475,705,205,061
if you look at diff for march 5 2018 3,290,605,988,754
so 3,290,605,988,754/475,705,205,061= 6.92 to 1
so lets see price goes up 8.73 to 1 and diff goes up 6.92 to 1 this means you are doing great.
that is why the op is clueless. he dates back to jan 2017 I just dated back to march 2017
and you can check every number from jan 2017 to march 2017 and the op is far better off today then he was during the jan 2017 to march 2017 time frame.
when I make a shock statement I am very careful to be able to back it up.
and anyone that thinks that today march 13 2018 is worse then it was a year ago as the op said is clueless.
Now it goes without saying mining is not as good as dec 2017 but the op did the jan 2017-march 2017 time frame as his start point.
If he did nov 2017 or dec 2017 as his start point I would have agreed or not posted.
(Moderator's note: This post was edited by frodocooper to remove a nested quote.)