In Q3 2018 market is still a blood bath. A lot of people that involved in crypto losing theirs hopes on a quick moon. ICO market is down. But difficulty of mining is growing up. We need more powerful processors, GPU and so on. Mining was created to give ordinary people get some free coins. Another hand big companies joint into monster to dig more digital gold. Simple person is out of this business. To support a node of ethereum you need more space every month and you get no reward. Do you think its fair enough or we need some new architecture to give mining a new life?
Mining has turned into a rich mans game. I have free electric (solar) and have plenty left over and financially it still doesn't make sense. I'm not really sure how to not have power consolidete like this. It seems to be a force of nature. The best we can do is attempt to work within it and get ahead anyway we can.
I was very disappointed to learn mining wasn't an option even with free power.