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More power to you, and thank you for the comment! :) Again, mining can certainly be profitable, especially with the appreciation rate of the majority of the coins. I just wanted to show people that, for the most part, because of that appreciation rate, they could make more by simply buying the coins with the money they were going to spend on the miners/mining services.

This is true but I like to do both so I can slowly build more coins while the ones I have do grow