Don't try and get into mining right now. There are no cost effective mining gear available as of today. Antminers are sold out, the other ones are still in this pre-order limbo. I'd throw 10% of your money into Crypto, but depending on the amount of money you have, I would consider some less volatile investments also. Aluminum, Developing Markets, some fun tech stocks, would be a good breakup. My funds are something like this:
35% cash
35% stocks (with at least 20% free at any given time to flip into ETF's when the trends are good)
25% crypto (70% currency 30% mining)
5% retirement IRA's
Try to spread your money out. Crypto is great, but I have a lot invested in it because I believe in it, its part of my life in a big way. For people who are not living and breathing crypto, I wouldn't put that much of your capital forward, because if you get sour in the short term and take a loss, you'll not only hurt your own funds, but you'll hurt crypto as a whole as someone who came into this with the expectation of profit, and maybe got slapped around a little bit and couldn't stick it out through the volatility. From then on you'll be a disservice to bitcoin, so don't let that happen to you, or our community.
That said, I think right now is a great time to buy the coin itself, and not a good time to mine, so if you were going to dip your toe in, I'd grab an Antminer from a reseller, buy a few bitcoins have just have fun with this! It'll be a wild ride, but do yourself a favor, and read the Satoshi whitepaper docs a few times. It'll help iron out any doubts
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