this is true.. asic manufactureres arent stupid. how else will they test the asics theyre developing? by mining on it before they even advertise it for sale. of course that will turn a profit.. and i imagine.. would be hard to turn off when you can build asics and rape all of crypto investment markets in a week. but way before them it is done by a kid in his bedroom with a soldering iron. alot of people dont know that there are already asics working with x11 and x13 algorithms.
Whoa, ASICs aren't made that way. Maybe a loosely efficient processing mod, sure.
If a "kid" really is designing ASICs in their "bedroom," he/she can easily be a multi-millionaire working on actual design projects not in the crypto-currency realm.