Mining is already dead to the people who are paying for a gpu any price above msrp, for the others mining still surviving but not sure if it survives this year. The thread I created is an example of how my sentiment is concerning mining and it has never been this bad. Right now eth gives only $1.20 per card and if the difficulty keeps rising then soon will be $0.50 and then 0.
1 free advice there is a world outside of eth...im still doing ~3.5-4$ day / rx 580
whatcha mining?
That's always the real question; cause the second a horde jumps on the smae algo/coins you are mining; bam... hit in profits lost.... Kinda sad, but true.
Best advice: Try many algos, see what ones have coins that pay well and which algo is the most efficient when it comes to that notion.
Last year around August/September; it was Skien for my GTX 10 series cards... right now, its different..... But definitely not an algo that the masses are mining. I am still pulling over $300/mo with the equivalent of 2x 1070 in hashrate on one account.