Also, someone slap me if I'm way off base here, but if the difficulty keeps going up, doesn't that imply that more people are mining it, increasing the net hash rate? That hardly sounds like spiraling into oblivion.
PROFITABILITY is going into oblivion.
which is much better when it is stable
look at the chart I posted. it has been going down since day 1. where is the stability on that chart. Look at the god damn image.
http://postimg.org/image/kylsqtkm1probably a good long term investment but horrible for daily miner-dumpers like me.