If many say shiba coin has no potential that's why I tried to buy shiba coin a few days ago yesterday I sold it and made a profit, based on my experience we must have a target, don't easily believe what other people say.
Good for you, if you have a graphic card laying around at home use unmineable platform to mine some Shiba inu, this will make it easier for you to hold, I am mining Shiba inu every day, earning me 500k Shiba per day and 30 million is my target, I plan to hold since Shiba burn is very serious and also Shibarium is in work ( Metaverse ) I believe making profit from this project in future is highly possible.
That is not a "terrible" idea considering you are not spending too much of anything, just your bill will go up and that is it. But, is it impossible to redirect that towards something like ETC and mine that? I feel like that could be a possibility as well and you could make some profit from it, plus it would be for something that is reasonable, since ETC is a legit coin and not a joke like shiba.
This is of course based on whatever you want, there is nobody that says you should be avoiding shiba, if you want to invest your time and money on shiba, then it is up to you and you are welcome to do it, I would suggest otherwise, but it's your own machine and nobody can stop you.