If you really keep up with HYIP, you can make money. It might not be honorable, because many of them are Ponzi's. But if you are careful, you can make money off them.

Nahh...this is not my way.Maybe you can do money with this in short time,but is risky to loose all investment.Past year i heard about 1.and many people lost hes money.some like 48 milion euro.
I'm already using a well-placed infrastructure, and at the moment I really think it's more profitable than btc mining.
As I said, it also requires well-equipped computers, but they are not as expensive as an ASIC, and already the energy consumption is not so high.
But i have a problem, finacial.For a big proiect is need money.