What is easier?
1-Investing 3000$ in 1 antminer to mine bitcoin and hardly go on profit (or not)?
2-Investing 3000$ in 4x 1080TI to mine ETH and hardly go on profit (or not)?
3-Investing 3000$ in shitcoin to mine POS and loose 90% of money due to price fluctuation?
4-Download node and run it on 8$/month VPS or old PC and do validation each wee
First three options aren't easier than fourth. But in first case you are ended up with $3000 invested in a project and can hope for some dividends on that sum. In 4th option you can only hope for dividends on your $8/month worth of investment. Yeah, you can buy additional coins to get some leverage too. But buying/selling DNA is a problem currently cause there is no any exchange yet.