Is it too late for Bitcoin cloud-mining to be profitable?

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http://blog.bassemdy.com/2015/03/02/is-it-too-late-for-bitcoin-cloud-mining-to-be-profitable/

[jmspring]

My guess, yes.

Further, I'd say Bitcoin will have little to no relevance for the majority of individuals, ever.

The constant reference to "the block chain", just download a mining client, wait for the block chain to "sync" and tell me this scales for more general purposes? It doesn't.

[Link- → jmspring]

But this issue in particular has been partially resolved by online wallet services, example: Coinbase