Now that bitcoin is at 7000k plus is mining becoming profitable again? Or bitcoin still have to surge more in price before profitable mining returns?
Mining has always been profitable, just need to know which coin is best to mine on the equipment that you have installed. To do this, you need to use specialized sites that allow you to calculate the best mining options for you, taking into account your equipment and software.
I think bitcoin is the best choice but it is still depends on the difficulty still if there were lots of miners that are mining bitcoin then it wont be profitable enough to say.
Of course everyone knows that bitcoin would always remain the best coin to ever mine, but the cost of operating it is the most difficult part of it all, and except there is a very high surge in the price of bitcoin that miners can really benefit from the mining of bitcoin, and I guess now that we are in the bull run, most miners would have been planning to return back to mining to take more profit.
We also have some other coins though in the market that is very good to mine, and not so expensive to set up, Electroneum and monero is one hell of a coin to mine and easy to set up.