People on here speculating price to go up are just clueless, it might go up but what if it doesn't? Are you financially secure enough to take on months if not years of loss until you can be whole again? Think logically, most people telling you to start mining and hold are probably newbies who don't know anything about mining.  You won't even make significant headway unless you're willing to risk at least 40k-50k at the minimum since GPU prices are sky high, I'd say just buy the coin if you're willing to take a risk.