I really cannot believe the number of people waiting for Nicehash to return so they can give them a second chance to scam some more free BTC.
At this point in the game mining itself doesn't even make sense much less wanting to use a scammy pool such as Nicehash to do it. All those people who invested thousands in mining rigs or mining contracts over the past few months would have been way better off buying and holding pretty much any coin directly.
While all the Nicehash miners are now looking at even longer ROI time-frames, everyone else is making money hand over fist. A hypothetical $2,500 invested 3-4 months ago directly in Bitcoin would be now worth $19,000, while that same $2,500 put into a mining rig someone bought during the same time is still working on its ROI.
I cannot believe the number of people still waiting for NH to return that still haven't decided to broaden their horizons and learn to mine singles. I mean we're talking nearly two weeks now and rigs are just being left there to sit not doing anything? Maybe it's just the one gpu miners/hash power sellers, who knows. I've said this in other posts and I'll say it again. My first 6 gpu rig was built and running less than 12 hours before the NH hack. It was a blessing for me. It forced me to go off and learn to do it the hard way. And now as I'm looking back, the more profitable way. I can't even begin to thank all of the people around this forum who convinced me that NH was not the way to go. Because honestly ... A few weeks ago, I really believed that I would make more money using NH than I would mining singles in the long run.
This is a thank you topic in itself, but thank you to everyone who I thought was being an asshole or those who just responded with "whattomine.com" ... Lol ... I wouldn't know what I know today, if it wasn't for you! I do hope this is an inspiration to the OP. All you have to do is go look.
On another note ... Yes ... If you put 10K in btc when it was traded at 1K, the value of your portfolio today would be roughly 180-190K. That would have been speculation, a bet, a gamble, timing the market, an investment or whatever you'd like to call it, based on what you thought one currency could have or will become. Has nothing to do with mining. I would not have and still would not place a 10K bet on one coin, but I will invest 10K+ into mining and dollar cost average my way into multiple currencies after ROI.