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Hash rate closing in on 40 million.

So it's only CPU and GPU mining right now. How many months/years until ASICs?

I always read it was "Asic-resistant", however IDK what that really means. I mean, couldn't someone develop an ASIC for cryptonote? Is anyone trying?

If I recall correctly from old video (or audio) with Fluffypony it is possible to make an ASIC for CN. Please correct me if I wrong.

What it is is that ASICs don't have a big advantage over GPUs and GPUs don't have a big advantage over CPUs. When the price gets high enough the small advantage might make it financially feasible to design and manufacture ASICs. I certainly don't have the knowledge to analyze this.

Yes. But I think that ASIC will be a bit cheaper than GPU rig (as GPU rig slightly cheaper than CPU. I mean KH per $).

I would hope so. It's really expensive and probably a loss to even try and build a new GPU rig for cryptonote right now, right?

Not really. I don't know how about now (my couple of rigs are from 2014) but rig profitability mostly depends on electricity costs.
Higher hashrate means higher difficulty means lower XMR profit but with high hashrate we gain high security and therefore higher XMR value. So only electricity cost matters.