In my opinion, mining is currently not very profitable anymore, because payments to miners continue to decrease by half, while electricity costs continue to rise, this can no longer cover mining operational costs. If I have money as capital, I will use it to buy Bitcoin and hold it for a certain time. I think Holding is more profitable at the moment compared to mining.
then why need to mine when you can earn in trading and HOLD? mining only profitable in some areas but in majority it is not , though there are altcoins that still good to mine but Bitcoin isn't that good idea at all specially in countries like my own.
also consider trading as well but of course you must learn deeper before putting funds in trading .
just HODL and then find place in trade.
Well whatever knowledge that i have i would surely prefer holding rather than mining, one simple experiece that i faced that once i invested ethereum in genesis mining for 2 years contract it even have not given the amount of ethereum back that i invested and the price of ethereum had gone up by 5 times, so that resulted me in loss only.
my brother use to mine but that makes me have in mind how hard to gain in mining .