As a hobby venture, yes, cryptocoin mining can generate a small income of perhaps a dollar or two per day. In particular, the digital currencies mentioned above are very accessible for regular people to mine, and a person can recoup $1000 in hardware costs in about 18-24 months.


As a second income, no, cryptocoin mining is not a reliable way to make substantial money for most people. The profit from mining cryptocoins only becomes significant when someone is willing to invest $3000-$5000 in up-front hardware costs, at which time you could potentially earn $50 per day or more.

There are many ways you can plug into the eth network, one of tge easiest ways is to use its native mist browser.
  Mist provides a user friendly interface and digital wallet for users to trade and store ether as well as write, manage, deploy and use smart contracts.

Is the process of mining Ether. Simply put ,mining ether equals securing the network which in turn ensures verified computation.

Is just a phrase used to describe computer code than can facilitate the exchange of money, content,property, shares or anything of value.

An initial coin offering,also commonly referred to as an ICO, is a fundraising mechanism in which new projects sell their underlying crypto tokens in exchange for bitcoin and ether .....ICOs are a relatively new phenomenon but have quickly become a dominant topic of discussion w/in the blockchain community.

What are cryptocurrencies?
    Are digital or virtual currencies that are encrypted(secured)using cryptography.

For me , ethereum is an open-sourse , public ,blockchainbased distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality.it supports a modified of nakamoto consensus via transaction based state transactions.while,
   Bitcoin is crytocurrency and worldwide payment system.it is the first decentralized digital currency,as the system works w/out a central bank or singke administrator.

Yes, because eth are popular now.