I dont have the financial capacity to mine bitcoin. Is there anything I can mine profitably using my ordinary electronic gadgets like laptop, mobile and related stuff?
This is 2020 man! 12 whole years since Satoshi launch, and 'mining' evolved few years ago already. It doesn't have to be POW or any if those other energy intensive efforts before its called mining. There are several other mining techniques that don't require serious overlay on hardware.
POS coins for example, only require you to hold a certain number of coins in your wallet and you're mining away.
And the world of crypto right now (even ETH) is going POS.
Thats correct, there are so many alternatives to PoS based coins. All we need is find it out. PoS and PoW are same way of climbing the same mountain, since they both require huge initial investment. PoC coins like MASS are in there initial stages and are profitable because of this reason.