You can make money through mining in three different ways, one, you set up a mining rig and start mining, two, you join a cloud mining platform, and three you mine on your device by using mining software, and your computer's has power. The most profitable mining method is setting up your mining rig. However, you will have to make some serious investments. You need to buy equipment, you need to pay energy bills. You need to make at least $1000 to set up even the smallest mining rig. Cloud mining can be done for free as well as paid. The free paid method does not earn you well, for the paid method you need to buy has power. This is where a lot of people get scammed because a lot of so-called cloud mining companies are nothing but scams. Mining on your device is good but earning depends on your device's computing power.