Your optimism regarding GPU miners is commendable. However, ASICs long ago took over scrypt, and I am not certain that GPU miners mining XMR by the boatload will do anything positive for the price.
PiMP release for XMR GPU mining
Lloydimiller4 posted this 10 years ago
http://www.getpimp.org/community/blog/174-pimp-1-6-0-1-7-0-released.html
Hey guys.
Just found out that PiMP's latest release has Claymore's XMR linux miner on it. IMO that is great news. Getting more GPU miners interested in mining XMR will have huge positive effects on the price. There isn't much profit in mining XMR right now, but I am sure that will change soon. All those GPUs have to go somewhere now that ASICs are taking over scrypt, and I don't think any of those x11/x13 coins have anything over what XMR has to offer.
Good to hear PiMP has an XMR release finally. I'll have to check it out on my rig when I get some free time.
Good info here on PiMP older video but insightful especially for those Linux users