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?
I don't know about mining, but what you say I fully agree.
but some of my friends are still mining with certain techniques and according to them it still produces profits even though the level of difficulty is getting bigger.
and I think if you feel anxiety over mining you can switch to trading