I think you're characterizing the opportunities in Mining too favorably, optimistically.
Mining is very expensive, takes a lot of time, and doesn't pay much (considering how much investment needs to be made). You could spend a few hundred dollars on a mining machine and wait months (and spend more money in electricity) to get paid very little.
Risk Level: High
Profit Level: Low
Reliability Level: Medium
Providing services is THE BEST way to earn bitcoin. Signature campaigns pay more than money when you consider the amount of time, energy and investment put into the endeavor.
Right, although i never mined, i did some calculations and showed that with an initial invesment that some of us have, you can barely earn 0.05-0.07 bitcoins daily.
So most of us dont even have that money for equipment to mine a net 0.01 /day.
Although I dont think the risk is high since it's pretty stable, since the difficulty & electricity costs are very predictable, so the risk is not that high.
A big risk would be something totally unexpected like with investing & gambling, but i think mining has much less risk than those.
