Feel free to correct me if any of my information is wrong and if you have queries feel free to comment.
Bitcoin its something all of you know about and you might have also heard about mining somewhere.You would have done research finding it to be too expensive or taught about the tax implication on the money you earn causing you to not invest into it. Now the rules on bitcoin in India is not yet final the RBI stated investment of money into crypto by an individual will be at the risk of the individual and the government would not help the individual if he gets scammed or losses money on his investment.for further information about what RBI has to say about bitcoin can be read here
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The article mentions risks but those risks do not apply to miners as miners setup machines that generate the currency for them so this means as a miner you are not directly investing into the currency you are investing into the machine that's gonna give you the currency. Which means when the bitcoin bubble crashes as most of them keep telling it will crash you can sell of the parts in your mining rig and make most of your money back which is the best part about mining the currency instead of directly investing into crypto currency.
Now as a miner ill share my experience with you. I started out small with just two GPU i mined with just two gpu's for about 3 months. setting up the cards and mining was easy but the difficult part was finding a exchange to convert the currency i mined. i found out about HITBTC a crypto exchange where you can exchange you crypto for bitcoin or any other crypto. now that i had bitcoin with me i had to find a trust able exchange where i could get money in rupees for my bitcoin.I searched for about a week did a lot of research and found many Indian exchanges. i used almost all of them and felt ZEBPAY was the best as they had the best customer service. But they need KYC [know your customer] which isn't a problem for me but many of you might not be okay with it so for the people who don't want to provide your KYC you can use local bitcoins India but i don't recommend it.
The reason i recommend zebpay is because they provide a professional invoice for the bitcoin you buy or sell and they also deduct tax applicable. So IF you were to be audited someday by income tax and questioned about the money earned from mining you can show them the invoices that zebpay provides you.
Its not necessary that you build a huge rig at once you can try out the mining with just one or two cards with a old computer at your home. setting up a mining rig is not a difficult task and with the right compatible hardware and some knowledge about computers you can have a mining rig ready in about 4 hours at max. you can find many guides online on how to build mining rigs but i highly recommend follow the guides i linked below
NOTE : please don't build a ethereum mining rig as its gonna reach proof of stake very soon and the difficult with mining Ethereum is also too high. personally i would recommend you to build a zcash oriented or monero oriented rig.
For Setup With Windows
http://1stminingrig.com/best-windows-setup-configuration-tweaks-for-mining/
for setting up the hardware
https://www.buriedone.com/
go to the site and click "start building yours"
there are other algorithms giving many other cryptocurrency's but i personally recommend the above for at most success
you can read about or watch videos on how to setup your mining rig for the specs of your system or just leave a comment with your specs and I'll reply as soon as i get the time.
In conclusion i would say its never too late to get into mining its always profitable with the right hardware choice and verdict from RBI is still pending over the legality of bitcoin.
P.S: follow me for future updates on India's rules regarding bitcoin. and strategies to use during trading your mined currency's to make the most profit
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