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In my sight, trading is much profitable compared to mining, though both of this job are needs capital but I choose trading as one of the good investment.
This is my example:
If you invest in mining it took a long period of time before you recover your investment and also you just need to spent much electricity. Are you agree?
On the other side, if you invest in trading and choose one of the better coins you can easily recover your capital together with your income, also in short period of time you can easily doubled or triple your investment. Are you agree?

Don't use mining websites, they're not doing mining, they're like HYIPs. If you're interested in mining, do it on your own.

With trading websites, I think you mean exchange platforms such as Bittrex, Binance, HitBTC etc. You better start trading after learning it well.

How come you compared these two when obviously we all know who is much worth to try with associated risks.

Also BTC0.01 in mining can't take you to nowhere. Mining sites? Cloudmining? Even the legit ones can't give you good profit for BTC0.01 capital. But overall they have different background so comparing them isn't making a sense honestly.

Yeah that's right maybe you just need to make your own mining, because if you relied only in mining sites I'm sure instead of earnings you will possibly gain scammer.
Moreover, I suggest to used Yobit, cryptopia or cryptodao because they can offer a good list of crypto currency with good price.

0.01 in mining makes no sense, it is only a few more bucks than $60 dollars, and  you can not buy anything with that amount of money. Maybe you can invest that on a cloudmining site, but it is not worth it, because you are going to lose your money in there, and obviously, your time.
And 0.01 in trading sites is worst than cloudmining, because you need to be more than hours in front of your computer in order to make a few bucks a day, and it is not worth it too, because you can lose money in there if you dont have previous knowledge about that.

Are you pointing out to "mining" through cloud? That's not really worth to invest, most of them that are now existing are likely to be scam. Trading is the most profitable way of earning bitcoin and with other alt coins too and with my situation there's nothing wrong with investing to the "real" hardware mining (GPU) for having the capacity to invest for those GPU's, what matter to me is the expensive consumption of electricity.

Are you drunk sir? We all know which is most productive and profitable between on that two.
If you are looking for some income, it's better if you focused on posting in this sites, instead of trade or mine.

Don't be too serious bro. Maybe he just want to open a topic and you know, it could also help the people who are new here. Yes, the answer is so obvious, but that doesn't mean that you will try to ask the person if he is drunk. You are also right that you can have income just by posting in this site but if you are the kind of person who wants additional income not just from posting but also from trading or mining, then let them be. It is their own way of multiplying their bitcoin.

Trading as you can leverage your money to make more money - though you need to actually be good at trading

Mining difficulty is too high so you wont get much return from it, plus considering the initial investment needed for hardware and the potential at any moment for that hardware to break etc in my opinion isn't worth it.

I would recommend trading but don't risk more than you can afford to lose and don't risk more than 1%-2% per trade.

Best of luck  :)

Not all, genesis mining is one of the cloud mining that offers hashrate for mining bitcoin. and i think its legit.

Yes trading is the most profitable now if you are an experienced trader. Because, there is a lot of pump and dump in cryptomarket.
If you are newbie in trading then i suggest start to practice first in forex or stock using demo accounts. (Practice makes perfect)
Long HODL is also good in crypto trading as long as you know your coin product and future development.

Bitcoin or altcoin mining is still profitable as long as you have high capital, cheap electricity and high knowledge in computer hardware and software (Windows/Linux/EthOS/Simplemining etc..)

There is no easy money in crypto, choose only one path. mining or trading.

I know about genesis mining but still it's up to the people that wants to invest there. The return with their contracts is something that I can't think and even they are trusted by many people I don't buy that. I had a bad experience with those "trusted" cloud mining before that are operating for years and then they just went off together with my investment so I don't consider it anymore. If you trust them it's up to you but my bad experience about cloud mining will never change.

There is no question that trading is profitable because you have total control over it. You can invest big or small depending on your capacity. As compare to mining or cloud mining which recently have been scamming people out of money. So I would never go to mining but will continue to go to trading, although there is risk, its up to the individual on how he/she mitigates it.

of course trade is way more profitable compared to mining,
why ? because right now,mining is no longer profitable,you need to pay an expenses which is quite many while facing the difficulty.
everyday the difficulty keep increasing and because of that the rewards will be decreased a lot,
other than that someday we need to do the maintenance and replacing other stuff beause of overused/old.
compared to trading,all that we need to do is to read the market and the movement.
everyday we can get the 'profit' if we're good enough,
compared to mining,we do not need to pay anything some like ; expenses,maintenance,etc etc.
so mining and trading are like sky and earth,
completely different in term of profit.

Sure,I do agree that trading can be more profitable than mining. Mining is costlier in any country you live,even in china because of the massive usage of electricity and updated computers in terms of graphics like updating from GTX 950 to GTX 1080 Ti etc and in terms of return I think one can get a return after like 1 year or something. Trading on the other side,is more user friendly and does not require a technical background or knowledge which is required in case of mining. The only harm in trading is that sometimes, one can make a wrong decision or even the exchange in which one trades has a possibility of getting hacked.

Thanks for slapping my face regarding the topic I made, I do this because I'm looking for some another source of income. I have some bitcoin and I can't decide if I invest it in trading or mining, however regarding to the reply of  some users I think it's better if I invest my crypto in trading. Since I have some idea regarding that, I've seen that all I need is to improve it.

If you have limited budget go for trading but if you have good enough capital for building your own mining site go for mining method and i can say that both are good source of income here in crypto and it always depending on the capacity of individual users.
Good to you that you already conclude what is your method that fits for your capacity hoping that your trading journey will be more successful just keep it in your mind that dont be greedy if you do not want to loose your capital. Goodluck mate

Mining is very long-term investment option. You are indirectly investing in the coins you mine by first investing in mining hardware. Due to the time and overhead involved, you are likely looking to ROI on a longer timeline -- many months -- probably with intent to hold for years.

If you are only looking to invest in the short term, or swing trade/day trade, you are much better off buying coins and trading. Then you can properly hedge day-to-day and you aren't tied down to your fiat overhead costs. You can always quickly ditch one investment and move to another with your capital intact.

trading is not profitable anymore because we all know that bitcoin is always going to be on a bullish trend, and it means that the opposite is going to happen to altcoins.
When bitcoin goes up, all those shitty altcoins below the top 20 start to go down for a lot of money, because all those guys start to put all their funds in bitcoin in order to make some profit from that.
And the same scenario repeats tons of times a week, this might be the reason of why trading is not profitable anymore.
better to buy some good antminers and build your own rig, it will give you a lot of profits in a few months from now

That's not necessarily true. It's much more complicated. I've been trading BTC since 2013 and altcoins since 2014. What I've realized is that all the markets go through different cycles. Any two coins are not necessarily in the same part of the market cycle. Sometimes we see positive correlations to BTC, sometimes negative. Sometimes there is seemingly no correlation at all.

When BTC is trending upwards very fast, I find that you are usually correct. However, BTC will often consolidate before continuing upwards, and during these consolidations, altcoins often rally. This is in spite of the overall bullish BTC trend.

The decision is always on your hand sir, anyone in trading and mining are both profitable. I suggest that choose the investment that line on your fashion, because if you do that you can easily adopted the environment you choose.
In additional the profit you can gained in work you choose are always depend on how can you work hard.

it depends on a lot of different factors. these two are not similar things to easily compare them!

for example if you know nothing about trading and have zero familiarity with the market, then trading is not going to be profitable for you. the result will be a lot of losses, one after another until you give up and are broke.
some people don't want to spend time to learn trading, they want more of a passive income type of thing. so trading is not suitable for the se people.

mining on the other hand is more like a passive income. you just buy some equipment (ASIC miners or GPU rigs) and set them up so that they can make you money and you just check on them. this may sound simple in theory but it is still hard and risky because of all the volatility of cryptocurrencies.
but it is much easier to get the hang of the mining and make it profitable.
the only remaining issue will be your electricity cost, and if you live in a country with cheap electricity then mining is a good option to think about.

Well said. Mining could drag for some time before you recover your money! Trading on the other is purely based on chance. But you could calculate how much you are going to earn on your money over a span of it's life.

I think if you have good enough knowledge and skills. Trading will earn more profit than mining. With 1 dollars you can earn 1000 dollars.  :D

Both are profitable. But the more profitable is the trading exchange,but there is disadvantage. In trading exchage, more posibility of profit lost. It is more risky if you dont have knowledge of this system. But if you are a pro in trading, this is much profitable. In mining system, this is a stable and surely you will definitely earned even if you invest,but not as much than trading.

Maybe it depends on how can you handle the job you can chosen, for me both of this are much profitable. However you just need some professionalism in terms of trading, also you just need to bind a couple of time to monitor the movement of coins you been choose to invest.
While in mining you only need to invest high amount but surely you can earn income even for a long period of time.

Both are profitable if executed well. Profit really depends on how you do your job well. Trading needs to be decided well and market should be well monitored so as to keep yourself updated to the current price in the market. Mining on the other hand requires a lot of capital but if you are familiar with mining then it would benefit well. Big profits depends on how knowledgeable you are of what you are doing.

don't be rough bro, I think he don't want just getting "income" from this site.

I suggest to start learning how to trade. it might be hard to get profit if trading Bitcoin, but altcoin can be profitable if traded with Bitcoin.

For a cryptocurrency beginner it is far easier to trade than to mine. Mining requires some code knowledge and advantageous electricity price. However, I am still thinking of mining as an instrument of diversification. If you cannot sync with markets and make money by trading, mining can "ensure" you quite stable monthly/quarterly income.

HODLing is way way more profitable compared to the two options that you have mentioned. Your mining rig will only give you an A performance for the next 6 months and then after that, you need to upgrade. Trading is quite good as long as you can focus on the charts 24/7, otherwise, forget about it. HODLing a reputable coin will give you more profits in the long run. Trust me, I have been doing this shit full time for a while now.

For me trading is more profitable than mining, mining needs huge capital before you can start to mine and you need to have a free electricity for you to earn good bitcoin. But in trading, it is depend on us on how much do we want to buy or to sell, for me it is more easy to earn in trading than mining.

The two of them have a very different angles and aspects to earn digital coins from different people's perspective and situation, it is because some of them earn more a lot easier from mining than trading because they are into technical and networking stuff as well as a good researcher to target a promising coin to mine utilizing the mining electricity and equipment but some of them failed in mining thus experienced to earn more from trading because they have a better understanding and knowledge about how trading works in crypto.

So for the Op's question was always depends in your skills and situation yes mining takes a lot of time to earn the ROI but if the electricity bill is promising to be cheaper it will be the opportunity to gear some small mining rigs and the income is a sure ball. Trading can also be profitable and can generate fast results but the problem with this is you need to watch the market too often and the risk is high because the market is not stable you can lose your money easily.

At a first glance, it seems pretty simple - when you have enough skills and are ready to take risks, trading is more profitable because of the fast results. If you are ready to wait for a longer turnaround, you can try mining. And yes, like it was mentioned, both options require big investments from the start.

Exactly! There is no way that we can deny this fact that mining is something very much costly and it requires lot of resources especially some super computers along with lot of consumption of power and electricity. Trading is no doubt a little risky thing to do but as compared to that of mining, it is better to go fir trading. It will really help you in earning of more money than you can get through mining.

Honestly I would agree and disagree to you at the same time. I agree that HYIPs are very attractive to newbies (who are their prime targets) and they end up losing their money in the process of the scam. Again a mining rig may not be cost effective for everyone. There a lot of costs associated with it and they may not be always profitable. So research on mining is important and the ROI must be considered if they are mining on their own.

Trading should be done once a person has got enough of a captial of bitcoin and some altcoins and have learnt about it properly. Be careful of pump and dump schemes and stay away from the "trollboxes" of the exchange sites. That is the place for all shills of the world.

Mining on your own takes a lot of time. It consumes your electricity hence you are not getting your profit entirely. I don't think mining is  a good way of earning because it is quite complicated. Meanwhile, mining websites aren't so reliable because some are scammers as well. You can do trading but it takes knowledge and experience, as well as mental & emotional preparedness.

Clear winner here is trading since mining takes a lot of preparation, resources and operation cost whereas trading only requires you to sit in front of your machine, study how the market is doing and trade according to what nets you some profit. You only need some time to read and learn about trading and you can start right away without risking a huge amount that could be bound for a loss. Trading is so flexible as well compared to mining. You can mine coins for certain profit but you can never maximize your hashes if you are trying to hit a certain goal unlike trading which gives you enormous profit since the market is always moving and you can cash every single mistake made by others.

Even if you say you want to use your PC to mine which obviously will not even give you anything but trash, 0.01 BTC will not even buy a good laptop to consider mining some altcoins and looking forward to the profit you will make from its value in the future.

All the above with trading, this is something that you can start increasing gradually and in no time you can make something good except that it requires some learning, effort and some pretty hard work from you.

i think mining is porfitable than trading with statment you'r new on crypto , i say this statment because i see lot people do trading with high investment and fall down because he / she didnt know about how to trading , but if you trading you just like invest ur money and get passive income
and with the electry , i think before do mining calculate 1st money u will get and u will spend

CMIIW ;)

Mining need not be own their own. You can join a mining pool and mine along with other miners by sharing you hashpower with the pool. Then you get proportional share of your hashpower. Doing this by setting up your own mining rig is a tough decision in terms of an investment.

Never trust any website which allows you to "buy" hashpower. Most of them are scam ponzi schemes and will never actually return any profits. Most newbies fall for them but they are easy to detect. Auroramine is one recent scam in this aspect.

More profitable activity is in which you invest more. You need to invest money, then knowledge and in the end you need to have time to do what you wish. For me more profitable is trading, cause I don't have money to invest in proper mining equipment, then price of electric power in my country is high. Both are great things to do and it invest in it, I think that anyone who have money for mining should do it, and for trading its not necessary to have a lot of money, a bit time and good will and you can start practicing and learning about bitcoin trading.

I think trading will get more profit than mining now. Let buy Bitcoin and hold it. You will not be regret

In recent months the difficulty in mining has increased a lot, I recommend trading with the currencies down because mining is hardly even giving good returns.

At the present moment, instead of investing in mining, I would buy bitcoin and keep it, because the valorization is yielding much more than mining. There are the mining in the cloud as well as the genisis mining that has some very cool yields and would be much better than investing in a machine to mine.

Just be careful with absurd profits that some miners promise as it can be a scam and you could end up out of harm's way

i have noticed that also, maybe because the price of bitcoin increases that is why it really is hard for the miners to cope up right now, but overall if asked which is better, mining can be good also, as long as you have the resources and you can manage the financial needs for your resource. it will be difficult also if you don't have enough resources and you are just planning to build your own mining resource, it will cost a lot nowadays, and to think that there is also extra money you need to reserve for the maintenance.

For me, trading exchange is more profitable than mining. Most people will agree with your opinion because they realize mining need more capital and hard work to understand how it works?. I believe you know the risk and which is the best to do about invest, you're an expert I think. But mining and trading has the same chance to become our way to make profit. Just take one, calculate and do the best. Good luck with you.

for me the more profitable is mining, although initially has a large capital but the mining is a job that provides many advantages. even for me trade also gives big advantage but we should be able to understand market activity and also have to know a lot of information about trade.

In trading you need to have some commission first in order for you to have a mining rigs and such but with trading you just need an internet and just a small commission in order for you to get profit.

it is true that you mention it, I also choose the trade, because with the trade makes me profit. but certainly not as easy as you say, if you are not careful in trading, especially with ico, you can lose your money, because investing has many risks.

Mining I consider less and stable profitable and it is more long term

Rather than trading a lot with is very risky.

Er, actually, higher Bitcoin prices is better for miners. They mine Bitcoins to sell, to pay for maintenance, so of course higher prices mean more income. In fact, the theory that miners are the ones driving up prices partially holds true to me, since costs are increasing for them, they need wider margins of profit, so it makes sense that most newly-generated Bitcoins from miners would have a premium price tag.

Also, why do you think they're migrating to and fro between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, if BCH wasn't ever going to go up in price? Mining difficulty is one reason, but definitely price attracts them, just like when Monero and ETH started rising in price.

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Both have risk it would really depend on which one you would prefer when it comes to duration of earning profits. Trading can really give you fast profit but would be somehow riskier compared to mining.The thing I doubt on mining is the cost since we do all know its very expensive and also mining difficulty do rise overtime.If you are really mining enthusiast then you will surely choose this over trading.

It's not that easy, and it all depends on your skills as a trader. If you are a miner you don't really require any skills to read market or anything like that. You just need to invest and let the ASICs do their job. It's a real business, and trading requires on speculation and you skill to trade. Not saying mining is easy, since it requires a huge investment to be done properly, and you can start trading with just a few bucks and grow from there.

Of course that mining can be quite speculative as well, if you actually keep your coins. But if you earn then and sell them right away, then it's just a normal business. Which one is more profitable? Again it would depend on your skill, but with the same amount of capital (and I'm assuming it's big enough to actually set up a mining farm), I would say that mining would work best for the majority of people.

And that is really what makes trading fun. Once you can pay your dues by learning all the important things you need to learn at first, trading is way better.

It takes a lot to be able to get a lot from mining which before you even get your ROI will take some time. With trading on the other hand, you already have your capital which you can withdraw at any time but trading with it makes you keep increasing what you have.

It is both risky buy I would rather choose trading in exchange.

The return of investment from mining takes a little while before you could feel the profit.
Why? The difficulty grew and there is a lot of competition there now.
Unlike with trading, you do it yourself. You rely on news and information about the coins that you are trading and not on just a computer calculating everything.
I think that is way easier although riskier than mining.

Good to know that you have discovered the area that you have a comparative advantage and you are utilising it well. To some people mining is the best which mean they don't know how to trade crypto currency as compared to mining Bitcoin and altcoins. As for me, Trading is the best for me because I have ample knowledge of trading although, i don't even have enough money and electricity for mining business.

Yeah , I agree with your example that which is better to go with the investment in with our bitcoin .
In the starting when I entered in this field then I was always looking for the mining sites but in actual that all gone wrong with scam , so I left everything realted with mining Because every cloudmining sites are scam only because they scam in 2-3 months by making big profit and loss for the investors .
After that I am making regularly trading to make money and with better conditions I am making better amounts of the earnings , here with the dump of the coin's price there remains always a chance that once the coin will jump and will make profit but in case of the investment in the site of cloudmining we can't make big Because our money will remain in the site Wallet and you will not be able to access them and also after the scam you will not able to make even a 1 Satoshi in the future .

Since i have never experience bitcoin mining then I would agree to trading because your given example has points. Comparing both object will be great to know which is the better process despite of its differences. Trading is a big impact to double your money since that's what we all looking for.

Currently, I would take buying as a better option as against mining. Mining is just too complex for someone who does not know much about the technicalities that surrounds the configuration alone is enough to make me avoid it not talk of the cost of setting up the rig and to make it profitable. With all this, buying would save all that and wait for it to appreciate and you could get the profit maybe with longer time but surely lower effort.

It is profitable for me to just trade in an exchange because it is the best and not expensive way to make more money is to just trade some coins in the trading sites in the internet rather than spending thousands of dollars to just buy and afford a mining rig. If you are really into profitable and fast profiting business then trading is the best.

Right. They are both totally two different forms of making profit and so many things have to be considered when thinking about the route to take.

Trading is more of it for me once you are good at it as you can make a whole lot from the amount of money you would have put into mining to be able to earn something good in the first place. Also, like you have mentioned, trading is something you can even start small, whereas mining requires some huge capital.

I will choose Trading compared to doing Mining. I think that when I trade I can earn unlimited income, Trading gives me a chance to get more profit. while doing mining I think more static because usually nominal that we will get calculated and estimated, oh yes mining demanded to us to have a quality hardware device, because without good hardware then we will not get good results.

Mining no longer makes a lot of profit unless you were investing in bitcoin ASIC miner. So, trading the exchanger should be a good idea but you have to make the right pick.

in trading yes that was true you really wanted to be careful on it unlike in mining but you have atleast some tools before you have done of it , in trading you have atleast some knowledge before you start cause if you dont have any knowledge then you may loose some of your money on it then your effort means nothing. before doing taht two even in trading or mining make at least some patience and knowledge also.

Trading unless you are a IT person that understand the maintenance and regular work that goes into mining other investing in the equipment and hooking things up!

With the same amount of money I think trading is the better option for now. Because you can earn a lot of money everyday if you have good trading skills, enough knowledge and experience about trading. But with mining it's really difficult to earn big amount at the moment because of the mining difficulty of Bitcoin is increasing day by day so the amount of Bitcoin you get everyday will decrease as well. Before it took 10 - 11 month for you to take all the invested money back but for now it'll take to years to take all invested money back :)). Don't join mining if you don't have million or maybe billion dollars :))

In my opinion, Trading is more profitable because if you are lucky, you can win double or more per day which mining couldn't.
But mining is more stable and fewer risk.
But I like adventure and enjoy the challenge and stress, so trading is better for me

It is not only in your sight but in reality, trading is more profitable than mining. Some altcoins has given an investment Return Of over 10* this year alone and if you study most of the analysis by the experts on mining you will find out that it takes more than 2 to 3 years before you can actually get returned on investment. Trading though very risky and you should not embark on it except you have adequate knowledge on how it works is far less in cost.

It’s not a matter of which one that can be making profit or not, I think the first thing to take a look at is the risk that are involved. There isn’t much risk in Bitcoin mining, the problem is that there isn’t much profit coming from it. Trading is good, but you can only make profit from it only if you know what you are doing. You can’t make profit if you’re not good in it. So for those with no experience, Mining is best, while Trading will be best for those with experience.

I say trading is more profitable than mining. If you have the knowledge in fundamental and technical analysis on candlestick charting you have a higher chance to get back your ROI.

For a newbie, I would also recommend going for mining first or even much better is to join a signature campaign as it demands zero investment while mining requires a good hardware setup before a person really earns something out of it.

However, the most beneficial method of earning or increasing capital is trading. A new trader must try it with small amount and understands all the tips and tricks of this profession.

whenever you look for trading is more better than mining cause we may see a lot of potential and possibility that trading is more good cause it can give you a profit , mining can give you but not as much in a positive way on trading , just take the risk of this two.

This depend on the skill, hoby, fashion and experience each person. But my personality I choosed also trading because for trading can learn about technical and fundamental analysis by my self in google and youtube. But for mining will be more difficult to learn it by self and should be any other person/miner guiding directly. And also trading promising higher profit than mining though the risk is higher.

Mining requires a lot of investment and there is also doubt, if it would be profitable or not. On the other hand, trading doesn't require much investment, you can start with a small amount of money and it can be profitable.

you are absolutely right about financial investments, but you still need to pay attention to the fact that trade requires a lot of time and first of all you will lose almost all your free time.

Mining allows stable earnings, but that's not possible for trading. I prefer to make stable earnings rather than earning a lot.

If it were just about losing your leisure time, even then it was much bearable but here in trading, if you are a beginner you are going to face some good losses. This is why it is recommended to do trading or practice it with small investments in order to learn how to synthesize successful strategies and act upon them. Trading has further many types and you need to understand which suits you the best.

Even ASIC mining is no longer profitable. The real profit in mining is long gone since 2013. Also its called trading in an exchange and not "trading the exchanger". You should work on your knowledge about crypto a bit more. :)

Not even an IT personnel can take care of all the mining equipment specially if you are doing bitcoin mining on a medium scale hoping to get decent ROI in a few months or at least a year. You will need a team with experience in this field as well.


Profit from mining varies according to the difficulty and the hashrate which is determined by the miners all around the world. So profitability fluctuates.

I think trading BTC and altcoins is a lot more profitable than mining nowadays. Mining actually is very expensive and you have to spend a lot of money for equipments and electricity, and after this you have to wait several months or even years to start getting profit. Trading can give you fast profits if you have the basical knowledge at least.

That's right, but the risks of losing everything in trade are much higher than in the mining. At mining at you in any case there is a starting capital enclosed in hardware.

I think trade is more reasonable. because mining requires some time and cost. good deals in trade.
The costs of mining are fixed. if the price is low you can be harmful. in trade you can save money.

There are so many things you need to consider if you really want to go into mining and that would determine the profitability of the activity itself.

Mining can be as profitable as trading and does not require much effort than setting up your rig. However, when considering the type of gadget for which type of coin as well as electricity, this is what makes the difference.

I totally agreed on this because mining needs big capital if you really need to explore in this area of profiteering you cant just start with small amount or else it will took you foreve to return investments lol..

While trading is much riskier and must be skilled,lucky. And learnedly to start making some trades.

If I don't want a hassle work I would prefer mining but of course a good tech should always choose the best rigs, less malfunction and in a very good condition then your good to go, also you have to be wise and do some techniques on how will you lessen the electricity bill.

Moreover, if you love trading and you have a good foundation about the inside and out and really knows how to pick good crypto then it will make you a good amount for daily living. The bigger the money you trade the bigger the amount you earn for sure.

I think both are profitable if you really are into it. Like in trading, if you strive harder and go for day trading you will achieve the amount you want to achieve in within a month. In mining also, you can get that amount you want but would need to buy a lot of things and spend much also to compensate everything.

Well, I'm prefer trading since I'm not tech geek.

But every people have their own desire whenever they fit with their selection. I've trade bitcoin almost 4 years but my friend already mine more than 2 years and the result is mining provide more bitcoin !

I think the most profitable today is trading because now for the mining results and costs are very high and the results are not too sufficient to cover the losses. better trading alone that proved more profitable.

Mining and trading are equally profitable.
1. in the type of mining, can be done manually and how to invest. if by manual of course takes a lot of time and maintenance costs like electricity or maybe spare parts that we use is broken. but now there are many mining companies that provide some kind of stock for us to buy, then they will share the profits according to the capital we invest.
2. on trading activity of course besides capital, we also have strategy to get profit. with fluctuations coin prices in the market, susceptible to losses

I have never done mining either directly or invest in a mining company. I do more trading activities, because in addition to not requiring large capital, trading can I do at any time by often observing the movement of coin prices in exchange market. although the profits are also small, but with the right strategy and moment (luck) I can do it as often as possible.

This so called investing in a mining company is most likely cloud mining, right? Cloud mining is not investing, it's wasting time and money and should not be even given as an example of mining.
If you are considering mining Bitcoin, it's not a viable option right now, but let's say you have enough money to start, trading is a better option/ If anything happens you're able to quickly turn your coins into another coin or fiat money, unlike mining, where you have to auction off your hardware first.

Practically speaking, they are both profitable as it depends on the person involves in it, if you are good at technical, computers, whatsoever needed in mining then go for mining, if you are good in making short term decision, loves to read market, love numbers, wants to have a daily income then go for trading.

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I choose mining because it is very easy to earn a permanent income from mining that's why I choose mining but it's starting investment is more higher than when compared to other ways of earning,

If you invest in mining (real mining, not cloud), there is no risks to your funds, except coin price fall. If you are trading, you have a lot more risks to loose all your funds. Next thing, mining do not tie you to the place. You just turn on your PC and\or farm, start mining and go where ever you want. Trading is a hard job that tie you to the place. So it's your choise what's better. I like both.  :D

the commercial exchange because the profits are faster than the mining in which you have to invest

Doing profits in a falling market is not easy. Profit in trading is higher, you can start making money faster than mining, but the risks are much higher.

When you mine, you do not risk ever but you spend the money on the equipment and electricity. Thus, the profits from mining are less than trading profits.

Keep in mind that mining needs too much funds to build a system that can mine coins in the market and also electricity is your best enemy here. If you want to earn money while doing nothing but waiting for your mining unit then go and have it but make sure you know things and calculate all the necessary information because there's a lot of people right now that doing mining but they end up losing their money instead of getting profit. So if I were you I will choose trading so that my knowledge about Bitcoin and altcoins would be bigger and bigger as days pass because in trading your skills and strategies will be the one who dictate your income.

For the long term, I think trading is the most profitable since what you need is skill in trading and the skill you acquire is not limited only to cryptos but in all types of markets.

You did not ask about that clearly. Is it for short term or long term. If you really want to help community and make good profit in very long term and your electricity bill is not expensive in your country you can be miner and mining coin. But if your electricity bill is expensive its good to trade then moning. But trading have bigger risk then mining.

exactly we cannot actually over emphasize the values of trading if you have a good skills in other to invest at the right time.  Investment is a game of skills and if you can train yourself in other to be able to spot opportunities then sky will be your limits on what you can make.  Mining is good but now I have realized that trading is far more profitable compared to mining.

I do all of them and basically, all of them are profitable if you have patience. mining incomes are very low nowadays, but if you hodl your mined coins you will get very big return, also if you have patience and you can get really good profits from trading. Pls be careful, trading is not only daily trading.You have to learn hodling as well.

i think mining is not enough profitable comparing with trading. but income from mining is more guaranteed. like there is no chancce to loose huge amount of money by mining. but you can loose all your investment by trading.

Both are profitable. Wont you consider on having a mining farm which do make passive income without doing nothing?thats the goodness of mining but still profitability would still vary on market prices which we do know it still a risky investment which is normal.I do also believe that trading would really be more profitable but still it do need skills for you to make money.It isn't really simple to make profits on both side. Money and effort would really be always required.

I guess mining is more profitable in the long run but I prefer trading over mining. Unlike trading, mining needs to have a huge capital since you want to have a unit with good specs and runs smoothly to mine efficiently.Also in mining, it consumes huge amount of electricity which in turn can be bad for a beginner miner. Everyone can be a trader,you can start without huge capital and you only need your knowledge in trading to gain profits.

mining as a promise masked with a fake mask.

because every mining is not easy, with the website at give ease and ease it is the mask of fraud.

hopefully you do not get caught in the scam.

For me the most profitable in this business is trading exchange although mining is still profitable because in trading exchange business you will be more profitable because of the daily basis unlike in mining not at a same amount of trading exchange do.

I agree that mining requires not only plenty of time and electricity, but also sophisticated and expensive equipment. But in terms of trading, I can't agree or disagree. In my opinion, it depends on many factors.

I guess that I’ll agree that generally mining is less profitable then trading. But I also thing the amount of profits which you can get from each of this activities will probably depend on you as a trader/miner.
For example, if you decided to trade, it’s important to find fast and trustworthy exchange. I've just started trading on cex (https://cex.io/), as I heard they have good liquidity. Well, let's see how everything will go.
And as for mining, I agree with recklessME, it depends. First of all there are two different kinds of mining: hardware and cloud one. And it's true, the first one may turn out to be too expensive. And there are lots of scam cloud mining sites.
Actually, each of this activities has its own pros and cons. 

I think that the mining is way more profitable because there is always a chance that the new coin that you're mining will skyrocket.

In my own opinion, trading will be more profitable because the profit you will earn will be always depending on how long you stay looking at the market prices and trading.

I think it will depend on the situation. One thing to consider is the skill you have when it comes to trading. Do you have the ability to trade very well during bull and bear market? If you are not good enough in trading then I suggest  to go mining. On the other hand, mining would be profitable of the electricity cost is low in your place. Do you need air cooling for these mining rig to work very well? So what I mean is that you need to assess the good and bad side of both first.

Why not do both?
Trading can cover mining and mining can bring you huge profits from mining new coins that rise quickly. It's a win-win if you can offload obsolete tech quickly.

To mine crypto is complicated for me and hard to understand  it,  so I prefer to learn about crypto trading which look more easy to to do and to make profit from it. High volatility  of crypto make possible  to earn profit 30% to 100% a month from crypto trading. And also now there are platform that allow to make profit from bearish market of crypto like Bitmex and MT4 platform.

for me both is good to generate income defending on the individual which are most capable to them, me i used to do trading while running my mining site, do not involve in hype mining site because that is 100% lose your money. You should need to be contented in small income with 100% sure money than finding hype which is taking huge risk for our money.

a hard day for trading, unstable bitcoins and altcoin unpredictable movement. Another alternative is mining, but it requires substantial capital to build a rig and buy a VGA.
looking for moment when VGA price falls.

You can look but you won't find a cheap GPU for a long time. The GPUs pay off themselves pretty fast.

and the bad thing happened I did not seem to be able to afford it.
$ goes up and this is a heavy blow for my country. the economy is increasingly difficult to increase.