There are plenty of people in this forum advocating against cloud mining, nobody should be unaware of the risks.
Plenty of people advocating against cloud mining, but still plenty of people being delusional enough to do so anyway. The only difference here is that ViaBTC does have an actual farm, where 99% of the rest doesn't.Those who bought shares a long time ago couldn't have seen this coming, so the only thing they can be blamed for is investing in something that isn't profitable at all. Those who invested very recently are just dumb.
If you know that a potential mining ban is looming in China, which has been like this for more than a month, you obviously should avoid using ViaBTC or any other actual mining farm in China to start cloud mining.
If you proceed with it without doing any research, you're just asking for it.
This however is just a temporary action, because once the farms are relocated, they will be back in the game. The only thing I like about this is that China will no longer be the central point of the majority of all the network power, and that we should all be happy about. 