My humble opinion is that cpu-s mining is future. Mostly because of upcoming ASICs that will destroy gpus.

CPU mining is dominated by botnets, and it's hardly profitable most of the time anyways. Monero's usually the most profitable crypto you can mine with a CPU, and GPUs easily outhash any CPU you might have (see flashed Vega 56/64 at ~2KH/s versus CPUs at ~500H/s). It's very likely not the future, and most CPU-mineable coins are also GPU mineable.

I think that GPU mining has die long before ...

Every few months We have an info that GPU mining will die. I heard it since first ASIC came to market. But, GPU mining is here, and will be here in the future. Maybe, with some new algos, new coins... and new GPUs...
Let's try to look it from another side. What is the profitable life time of one brand new ASIC? Not more than 8 months, and You will never know would You make return of Your investment. If You bought RX470/480 in August 2016, it is still profitable.
 

Right now I'm concerned cause I really thought the asic companies would never build a cryptonight asic cause that is too shameful, cryptonight is the last defense right now against all evil in the money world. This is really bad, those companies don't have a single bit of decency or morality whatsoever.


To make you happy you got one from me now hehe

Metroid, instead of post FUD and spread the fear on new miners, why don't we fight against Asics?

New miners are not the problem, Asics and big farms are
You are an active member and together we can boycott Asics

The ASIC producers, cheat their buyers several times.

- D3 Dash miner: todays profit 3.96USD (if You calculate the electric power cost, not profitable at all)
- L3 Litecoin miner: todays profit 8.2USD (hardly profitable)
- S9 SHA256 miner: todays profit 9.98USD (with small drop of BTC will not be profitable)

Some of those units people bought for over 3000USD. Now they have only noisy heaters, and lost their money.

What a business model! Produce the unit, take money from buyers in advance, put it in mining farm for 3 months while it is very profitable, and than deliver it like used ones. Make a huge oversold of units and algo diff. skyrocket, profitability ZERO.
They know what they are doing, and doing it with every new model. Huge hype on the beginning (representing big profitability at moment), presale etc... Only early adopters can profit, all others, when they receive units, have very long period of ROI.
I hope that new buyers will understand this "ponzi scheme" and protect their money.

Regarding this new "cryptonight miner", I think that this will be the first time We have here antihype atmosphere.
Monero team  (biggest Cryptonight coin) announce antiASIC fork, followed by other (IPBC etc...). All other cryptonight coins do not have enough daily trade volume, and when we will have more coins than it can be sold price will drop.
Coin owners invest lot in their coins, I believe they will protect projects, and will follow the Monero, IPBC etc...in anti ASIC algo change.
It is much better than see the prices around one satoshi.  

I left mining on 2013 when ltc crashed, after that I only bought and sold coins, I do test things though and help the community with few things. I have always been against asics and the people that know me, can confirm it. I'm never against gpu mining in any way, I'm all for it cause gpu mining regarding proof of work is the most practical and correct way cause that is why decentralization comes in, the idea about btc's creator is no different than mine, spread coins to cpu/gpu owners, in a computer today we have 2x more cpu cores, back then we had only nehalen 1366 socket and core maximum 4 ht on 8 cores and that was the corner stone of computing and for that time it was right, nowadays is the gpu era and decentralization still applies to it. I know  is not the same way cpu did back then. I'm against gpu farms the same way I'm against asics, decentralization of power means a percentage of population holds the power and not few people. There are ways to prevent centralization and implement close to 99% decentralization right now, hopefully we will see soon a g3 cryptocoin that will blast everything away that we have seen yet. Decentralization is the future and nothing will be complete till such coin reaches 100% decentralized which will eliminate any farm or asic and will be based only on cpu or gpu alone cause that is what is meant to be.

Thanks Metroid
This is the best post I read from you, totally true and honest
Let's keep this "war" against Asics, I'll do anything to prevent the centralization