I haven't dabbled much with mining until recently, previously thinking that "Oh, I need to buy my own equipment to mine, mining different coins would require specializing my hardware and squeezing out as much hashrate goodness as possible per mining instance, nothing can muffle the noise pollution coming from my rig, electricity is gonna be a bother, I would have to deal with joining pools and paying meticulous pool fees if I ever wanna turn a profit with mining some coins, yada yada..."
I would much rather focus my time (time <---> money) on what matters most: profit and stability. Genesis Mining seems to be a good bang-for-buck avenue for exactly that. As I've been trading for months now and speculating for years, one thing evades the trading market, that being a sense of investment security.
Even though trading can yield VERY high returns and is consequently HIGHER risk than mining or staking, I feel that trading and mining go hand-in-hand to make for a diverse portfolio. This combination, with a proper distribution, can allow your portfolio to better stabilize with market ebbs and flows (lot of ebbs at this point in time), instead of letting solely the market have its way with you.
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