Why is mining so hard?

[SWONG]

If easy minging the coin will have good price? If easy Mining the quantity sure be huge, base the big huge quantity, price will be very lower, so under the quantity total is limited , the rule is like this the rest mining will less and be more and more hardness!

[AishaIvy]

Difficulty automatically adjusts to target a block rate of 1 block every 10 minutes on average. No one is torturing miners with high hashes, it's the other way around: miners are coming up with so many hashes, difficulty must rise in order to rate-limit the blocks.

[Crytptohack]

OP should also realize that he is going up against huge mining farms in China as well as other parts of the world. There is a huge amount of competition for the top POW coins.

There are plug and play mining rigs like the antminer, but they are semi expensive and sometimes sold out.

Look into mining pools where you share the profits. You can also get coins by holding the ones using the Proof of Stake technology.

[gotminer]

Why do I need to download a program and write a command line with a dozen arguments that are poorly documented just to kick off a mining script?!  Hasn't anyone figured out a way to make this easier for the average Joe?

The only thing hard here is my dick when your mother sends me nudes.

[Choosewise]

Why would an average joe want to mine? It's not as easy as it sounds.

[wayxtt111]

More and more professional miner exists who have much more computing power.

[AsJoshScreams]

Try nicehash my friend its automatic.. it has its built-in scripts