Buying and mining Bitcoins

You can aquire Bitcoin one of two ways, the first and easiest way is too buy currency online much like you would buy stock in a company. The second way is a process dubbed 'mining' mining is a process in which a computer can in a sense create Bitcoin using complex algorythims and past transactions from other users. However mining isn't always profitable since the cost of the energy to run a mine usually greatly outweighs the monitary gain.