To hell with running a secure node. If I can't mine, I'm NOT going to look into running a node. I'll probably end up selling all of my hardware [And I have a LOT of hardware for a home miner - over 230 GPU's with peripherals]. I'll probably end up spending all of my time and energy on my trading signal and trading education website that's going LIVE in 30 to 45 days.
I sure as hell will not buy ASIC's ever again. I got out of the ASIC game in February, 2016 and invested in GPU's. Now I'm getting out of GPU's. Maybe, I'll get back into GPU's again in the future. I just can't compete anymore at current price and difficulty. It's just not worth it.
Yes, it would be nice if the price of all coins would go up now. That would alleviate some of the pain from lost profits. However, it would need to rise considerably very soon for me to consider keeping the remaining hardware I have. At least that's the way my situation is. How so? Because I'm my own boss. I haven't worked for anyone else since March, 2010. I've supported my family on mining and trading since 2014. Mining is about dead and now I have to rely on my trading skills I've developed since 2014.
Well, thanks for detailed answer. I'm not in mining at all (I only did some CPU mining and I'm still running BOINC to support SETI project, but this I did for educational reasons, you know better that it's not possible to mine with CPU for profit)
What I meant is that if you already have ZEN balance enough for secure nodes - you can setup them and receive additional income.
Anyway now is not best time to sell any crypto including ZEN.
So secure nodes can be additional source of income (for example I plan to setup some day in future)
Yes, and trading looks a good alternative for now.