1. MINING: This is a way of getting these coins and then sell it. it does not come that cheap though. Mining is simply solving complex mathematical problems with the help of your computing power and get rewarded with these coins for solving the problem. In the past it was very easy to mine bitcoin with your laptop. Its a different ball game now because the difficulty rate of solving those maths problem is very high now and requires high end machines to do that is if you want to go solo.
you can join mining pools to get this coins if you cant go solo. if you want to make use of your laptop to mine some alternative coins you can make use of minergate. i use it personally. i will post the link later or you can just google it and download it.
mining by using a laptop is something that is in vain, this is because at this time the VGA laptop can be said to be a very small ability compared to the diff from mining which is always increasing and the price of bitcoin continues to fall, and mining using ASIC requires substantial costs