Quote from: connic1983 on March 20, 2018, 02:58:51 AM

There are a couple of scenarios where mining is still worth it.

1. You have the hardware lying around doing nothing and all you need to do is buy GPUs. Even that is going to be hard cause ROI on just GPU is close to 1 year now.
2. Electricity for you is either free or close to really really cheap. I am talking 0.07 kWh or less. In that case no matter what happens to the market you will still be there mining and getting something back.
3. You love tinkering with hardware/software and are techy. Passion beats everything, and if that is the case ROI or anything else does not really matter.

Biggest problem is that ROI right now for a new rig is around 12 months whatever you mine. 12 months in crypto is an eternity and no one knows what will happen. We might get some good months but most people say that only worse times are coming from now on. Difficulty will keep increasing and new players in the crypto to bring new cash in will be less and less.

I can check 2 and 3. Electricity is 0.06 KWh here on everage. I hope you are wrong about the hard times though at least in the long run. There is actually tons of money out there waiting to enter Crypto. The number of people using it is actually really small. The way I see it the biggest barrier is the high learning curve and to user unfriendly for non-tech people. I have a lot of older people asking me about crypto. They would enter the market but they have no knowledge how to do it. If Crypto wants to really gain momentum it should most of all simplify usage. I mean copy/pasting hexa wallet addresses around with a chanche to make a mistake, cmon that like stone age.