Absolutely do NOT buy mining equipment right now. Every miner that you could buy right now is operating at a loss.
Buy bitcoin, or some altcoins, or put it in index funds in the stock market, but do NOT invest in mining. The only possible way you could make money doing this right now is if bitcoin increased significantly, but if that happened then you would have made much more money just buying bitcoins.
At the present time buying bitcoin mining equipment is strictly worse than buying bitcoins.
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