Since hashnest is clearly the best deal when it comes cloud mining, I would recommend to anybody that cloud mining is a bad idea. I believe the people that went into the Pacmic contracts managed to make some gains, although they were kind of small. I also believe that people that initially bought the S9 and L3 when they were new and then sold early also profited. However, at this stage of the game, it appears this is a losing proposition. I also feel strongly that Bitmain will be phasing Hashnest out. I don't see any new opportunities with Hashnest.
I managed to put in ~0.8BTC and pull out 1BTC+ when the S7 had the maintenance fell from ~80% to ~40%. I tried to do the same again but didn't trade off my miners fast enough and then waited until today to try to redeem them
- bit of bad luck. I'm hoping the S9s do similar, I did manage to recover 0.08BTC from the market from my original 0.2BTC capital (I honestly have no idea how I did that though).