I've been reading all day now and I think I'll steer clear of this mess.
The entire operation seems to have been taken over by scammers. At the current outlook, I cannot make any projection for any positive return on my -albeit meager- investment.
I'll put my money in something else.
If you want my two cents: BTC is destined to go down the drain, because it both attracts believers and scammers. Usually, the latter win...
It's sad, because it has promise. I truly regret this.
Holy shit. Finally someone figured out the brutal reality of mining on their own instead of the countless noobs still buying HW or getting into cloud hashing. Guy, you deserve an award or something, idk... shit. Seriously.
As for Bitcoin going down the drain, I'm in the believer category, but you forgot the one group that may actually drive this thing into the ground... the greedy ones.
You can't have one without other. If there are no miners there is no network. Yes there are commercial, and then there hobby miners. But I don't think you can categorize all hobby miners in a group of "countless noobs".