thanks bud. I'm new to the forum and I changed the section accordingly. I understand the mine and HOLD concept. What i ment to say was Ethereum needs the miners why not give them a bit more coins instead? When there are no miners there are no transactions. Miners have more power in this then we realize.
There is so much misunderstanding in those few few sentences I hesitated replying...
The rate at which you earn coins is proportional to the hashrate of your cards, but also inversely proportional to the hashrate of the entire network; that is what dictates "difficulty". So the more miners that decide to mine ETH the more difficult it becomes to mine ETH.
Furthermore, Ethash is not the 1070's strong suit: Lyra2v2, Equihash, Skein, Nist5 are several algos that perform much better on it; AMD cards do a lot better at Ethash (and Cryptonight).
So if you really want Ethereum I would suggest either selling your mining equipment and buying ETH directly or mining a coin your hardware excels at, such as ZEN, ZEC, VTC, XVG, etc., then trade it for ETH (NB - you may have to trade for BTC first).