You could make the profit if you make the investment in cloud mining site. To achieve that profit you must mine some lesser known coins which are actually a risky but if they achieve a progress in some time their value can rise drastically and your profit will be earned. Cloud mining sites are working on lending principles. You could even end with a loss if you choose to mine some popular coins which have high mining level right now.
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Investing in the real equipment is recommended but then you must commit yourself to the mining processes to pay back your hardware. Instead of mining, I would recommend the trading because everyone is realizing that mining of the certain coins isn't very profitable nowadays.