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?
You are absolutely right. It's too difficult to mine because of mining cost. Right now market is too down but think if market will going up you can make your profit though. just right now you have to collect it and save or hold for big prize. for single miner it's too difficult but those people whom mining in a group, yes it's totally easy and safe way to earn some money.