Smaller accounts is apparently getting paid already according to Pirate himself on IRC. Proof posted by another guy on IRC:
As predicted:
Anyway, let me remind you all that the stalling tactics were predictable and have been predicted. Another prediction, by the way, is that he may pay out a few small accounts to stall for even longer.
If he represented a serious business, he would, of course, pay his biggest, best customers first. But then he would not shut down a smoothly running business in the first place.