Yes mining now is not profitable but it won’t matter. Whenever we had a strong bull market, I would come to the alt coin mining discussion and see some post about someone hearing about bitcoin and they want to mine it with their MacBook pretty much. Almost every cycle near the top this phenomenon occurs.

This is similar to how my close friends and family ask about bitcoin, it always near a market top. It could be a coincidence but it’s just something I observed from being in crypto for almost a decade.