Hi, I'm a video game designer out of Ontario who has noticed my "research" purchases have been taxing to my marriage. The wife doesn't take kindly to 200 dollar purchases every few months regardless if it keeps me industry aware or not.

So I got to thinking how can I generate some spare cash (understandably with an investment ) to make money on the side.

At first I was hopeful that bitcoins could help, score a few once in a while, buy the games and software I need when I want them and leave our normal pay cheque alone.

I heard miners are still at it but with poorer results. Pooling is a thing but again the hardware required is steeper then the devolved hardware I buy now.
I heard you can rent cloud servers which seems promising but I'm not sure who is reputable.

Honestly I just want to land a few coins once a month or so, enough to pay for my gaming habit and hopefully itself.

Can someone help point me in the right dirrection to make an informed choice.