I think it's way better to invest in lending in sites such poloniex , you will get daily interests
it's not big but it's way better than cloud mining
Ya it is right that cloud mining is nothing but puting your bitcoins in dustbin, and lending in poloniex also first check it properly and then start, if you want you can start lending in this forum lending section, here you can use escrow for lending against collateral of forum account or alt coins which ever is your idea.
Even lending bitcoins can be risky sometimes, i've seen people losing their coins in this and then opening scam accusation threads in the forum.
So better to think of something else, like trading or investing in something that you feel is quite safer then that, or to just hold them and sell them when the price is higher.