Excellent research and very well explained.
It so happens that I purchased a 2-year "cloud mining contract" on ETC sometime last year and it has done very well. Then unfortunately I just sold most of it to fund my new Binance account in December. It's the Crypto dilemma -- you either sell something or plow more fiat into it.
Thanks. Yes the ebbs and flows of crypto. Yesterday's sales becomes tomorrow's purchases. I have done that plenty of times. Sounds like you purchased the right mining contract...hold onto your future ETC!