For me GPU mining will not die... it will minimize or only few will be using on it. With the price increase of Video Cards and Electricity bills i guess only few will be using the mining.

Its funny that you mention hypocrite and Vitalik in same sentence,its like that you forgot Vitalik promising that ethereum will be asics proof and that he wont allow asics being used on his project...

Even is ETH and BWK can't be compared due to huge volume and popularity difference I really like how Bulwark team reacted to asics for Nist5 algo. BWK community is currently voting on 3 various options of overcoming this.

I think  GPU mining will not die this year and in the next too. There will always be coins that can be mined. The question is to preserve and increase profitability. As for ASICs, after Monero and other alts have switched to other encryption algorithms, I think that ASICs producers will no longer be able to manufacture this equipment.

The thing is, though, you shouldn't count of the price of a coin rising in the future to calculate mining profits. There's no guarantee that coin prices will rise in the future, and adding more variables into something that is already an estimation isn't good.

There is a chance that GPU mining will become continually unprofitable in the mid-term (most cards can break even in around a year, albeit with free electrical costs), but I doubt GPU mining will truly die off. Difficulty will continue to rise, and ETH's supposedly going the route of PoS soon (something rather interesting as no major crypto has successfully turned to a fully PoS system), and these things will lower profitability in the long run, but mining profitability will likely somewhat stabilize in the coming months. The question is what's going to happen after that. It's anybody's guess with everything happening recently and what's planned in the future; 2018's going to be an eventful year for crypto and mining in general.

Dude that there will always be something to mine makes no sense when it comes to eth and amount of gpus on it...Atm about 80% of all gpus that are being used for mining are on ethereum and what you think will happen with profitability on other coins when all that hash moves on them?Eth pos or asics taking over is death for miners,only large scale operations can survive because they are located in low power price already but even then its not 100% sure

i rarely leak things, if you followed me on this post 2 days ago, you already made 25% - 70% more profit, the 2x is coming.

For once Metroid is bang on. Break out the bubbly!! Buy buy buy, the jump is coming

I don't think it will completely die however your strategy I believe will have to be small startup coins and you will be basically gambling that the one you choose will take off. Otherwise you will loose money as cost will not be covered.