I am not about the 'profit' with mining, but more building out my freedom money infrastructure.

That's pretty much my thought process with my hive witness over the years, The server it's on at one point was costing my £80 a month at the peak of the energy crisis in the UK, now it's about £50~ for the longest time it was always running at a loss, was profiting for a bit and now with the current price it's at a loss again.

But I just think of it as that money spent on power just becomes HIVE. Easier than dealing with getting fiat into the crypto sphere, and also there's the long game of witness rankings to play.

There are a few coins I'd love to do stuff in 'just because' Like Gridcoin with it rewards citizen research via BOINC. Monero perhaps cause privacy etc. though I still haven't really look deeply into it.

But can't justify the increased energy usage for what I get. It's an exceptional loss with gridcoin considering it's a 1.5mil MC coin, great project, actively developed just no exchanges and heavily under the radar.