Either directly buy them or trade mined altcoins to invest. Unless you have millions of dollars to blow on a warehouse for SHA256 ASICs, mining Bitcoins directly is pointless.

@OP I didn't add this to my other post since you had not yet edited your title,
but as with Dogecoin, you really shouldn't be mining Bitcoins. Even lazy skids mining at multipools would make a better profit than that.

Dogecoins have never been really profitable compared to other coins (if you actually did your research/invested wisely), and now they have tanked even more.
After tanking in price, they had a block halving, which makes it even more worthless to mine. Not sure why altcoins still use POW and block halvings to give their pointless coins some sort of "value", lol.

SemaphorismI personally think they're a waste of computing power, plus it will ware out your computer faster.

Unless mining an ASIC resistant coin, you would not GPU mine, and even then it would be done with a separate rig built specifically for that purpose. Please don't call something pointless or a "waste of time" if you know nothing about it.

TeamCraft-RobbieSo technically, you could buy a 500 dollar laptop, pay someone to run this program on a McDonnell's WiFi, and keep it going until you make a profit?

You have to actually invest and do your research. Mining some "popular" coin like Bitcoin or Dogecoin with a laptop just because people who know nothing on the topic told you to is not going to yield any sort of ROI.

FoxyI swear someone needs to make NyanNickels to go along with the DogeCoin thing

There is already a useless coin for that.

SkiooBecause one bit coin is $521CAD...

You aren't going to solve any Bitcoin blocks without investing millions of bucks, so the value of one coin doesn't really matter when deciding whether or not to mine it.

DruxeI might get an awesome laptop in high school to mine bitcoin. Dogecoin, waste of time.

I'd love to see where you heard this. Again, do your research if you want a good investment.

Bitcoins aren't more profitable to mine simply because they are more valuable, but rather more difficult to mine and less profitable because of how many huge companies and users do mine them. With the Bitcoin difficulty where it is, you're much better off either buying them directly or investing in Scrypt ASICs and doing your research to find a good altcoin.

funny bunnyI will eventually

I can help you a lot with anything related to Crpytocurrencies, so feel free to drop me a PM whenever you'd like some help.

Randomness3333No since I don't have an ASIC for them. You'd probably be better off mining an alt coin if you want to make a decent amount.

Finally someone who has at least done some research before posting things as fact. Hopefully everyone can learn from and discuss this, but rather than saying things like "Mining is useless because laptops don't make a profit", post facts and help people with things that you've researched.

/post. I don't often post on this forum anymore, but as this is a subject that I know a lot about, I thought I'd contribute to the thread and help people out. Hopefully this can get back on topic and we can avoid people simply stating how mining is useless.

You'd probably die before you made actual money.

Look up BitCoin mining or whatever and get started. Basically 'mining' is the program makes your computer solve complex algorithms and you get rewarded when you get a result.

This, and the electric bills.