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 think if you have your own mining rig in your home it is an advantage. But joining in any cloudmining site it is not fair to join in there, it is actually dangerous and risky if you partake on it. You cannot get any profit in there that's the reality which is most often happened.