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It's really only profitable with ultra-low-cost mega-powerful hardware, especially with cheap power- at average US utility rates, the ROI is even less appealing.
Pools, however, are still a quite reasonable proposition, but that will cease in less than 10 years except on the new forks.

Unless their are new technologies who don't use as much energy + new ways of getting electricity that will reduce the cost a lot... 😉 I believe in science!

Well, you're hypothesizing, and reasonably so, but Bitcoin Classic really can't be redefined, so those developments won't be deployed fast enough to make a substantial difference before the last block is verified.

How can you say that ??