Thanks for the info. Looks like I am five years too late. Looks like if im interested in investing just for the possibility that a BTC might be worth 10,000usd one day, Ill just have to buy them.
You definitely want to buy them as opposed to mine them. Even buying 1 will get you pretty far. Then you can turn around and invest portions of that Bitcoin into different investments: cloud mining, personal loan lending (BTCJam), crypto stocks (coinsortium).