...I am one of the lucky guys who invested some money in Hashflare Mining contract SHA-256 one year ago or so and at least recovered the investment but, there must be a lot of people which will never recover theirs.
Seems that Hashflare started to send e-mails to customers announcing the termination of the SHA-256 contracts since they are not any more profitable...
Indeed if you check BITCOIN profitability chart it is a drama:
Will see what happens but if the profitability of BITCOIN does not grew up, it will be very likely to see similar announcements about... and, if so... would not be BITCOIN Blockchain seriously on risk to do not efficiently handle the number of transactions we expect in order to maintain a "healthy" Blockchain?
What is clear is that BITCOIN needs a solution not only at the level of "Market" reversal but also at the technological level, maybe by both ways, developing or improving current mining systems and implementing solutions to get "cheaper" transactions...