GPU mining is capital intensive and power hungry operations.it has a long term effect and is not desirable to environment as it generate more heat, the more the miner the warmer the environment and we didn't care about the after effects as long as there is profit from it. ehereum got a wise decision of switching from POW to POS because they knew the adverse effect of it. we can still decentralize the blockchain and that will be the next thing to solve without the need of GPU or highly effecient power hungry super computing networks.
lmfao... dude! please take your Al Gore nonsense to a site that appreciates it... like maybe any of the global warming hype sites run by the people who benefit financially from the propagation of that lie. btw, how many trees do i need to plant to get a carbon offset to megawatts of power my 24 470's are pushing while mining ETH? not like Im going to do it mind you, i just want to know if you know the answer ;-)
The only thing 99.9% of the people in this forum care about are profitability ratios, and that's as it should be. To address the OPs question... GPU mining isn't dead but it is a very tough time to get into, mainly due to the global shortage of good mining GPUs. Its true that the effective end of ETH mining I think on Nov 1st (if memory serves) is going to cause some issues, but the recent rise in price of XMR should help alleviate that at least somewhat. Nobody really knows what is going to happen but hopeully, a new couple of coins to mine will pop up soon... kind of like with ZEC last year. That can go a long way to spreading the world-wide hashrates.
