Good Evening,

This is my first post so please god easy.

I am keen to get involved in Bitcoins, preferably mining them. There are posts, articles everywhere online and to be honest many I for some reason find confusing so thought I would look to speak to a real person on here.

My questions it whats the best start kits for my circumstances?

At present I have a laptop and mine using the laptop using GUIminer - in 24 hours so far got 18 shares. No idea what that means but thats what I got, apparently, Although my slushpool account shows no activity happening.

From what I have read, using just a laptop to mine is absolutely useless and non profitable - So what should I use, I was considering a USB hub that hold 40 Bitcoin USB devices and treat this as a hobby, leave the laptop on all the time and let it mine. What sort of expectancy would I get from that?

Also considered an Antminer S4 - But is it simple to setup, I heard a paper clip needs to be put into the cables somewhere to which I aint sure I feel comfortable doing myself.

Any thoughts or comments are appreciated