Profitability has recently gone back up again, so I wouldn't count on mining losing steam yet. That said, there were probably people that bailed and sold off cards during the last crash who haven't bought back in.
I suspect that has something to do with it - but in my experience, computer hardware never goes down in price proportionately to its performance. Where I particularly noticed that was video cards - before mining was even a thing.
I never heard anything concrete, but the rumours one of my coworkers sent my way made it sound like a very anti-competitive attempt - not one I am sure would have been strictly legal, if the details I was given were accurate. Do you have a brief rundown of what it was actually supposed to be?
My first step would be to leave it for several hours. That probably won't change anything, but every now and then, you get an update that will sit, visually unresponsive, for an extended amount of time, but it is actually doing something behind the scenes. If that doesn't do anything, we can definitely do more troubleshooting. Is it Windows 10?
Yes Windows 10. I left it loading all day until I woke up this morning and it was still loading haha. Just looking around this seems to be happening to a lot of people the past few days.
