At this point, I'm giving up on mining altogether. After all the hours of research that I have done, mining just seems to be an arms race of who can get the biggest and baddest hardware. It just doesn't seem sustainable in the long-term.

However, what I have been interested in is Bitcoin trading. It seems pretty easy and doesn't require you to invest a lot of money. I made a couple bucks today when the price of Bitcoin went to $252.