Exactly, were they this close to hashing there would be a plethora of news about the progress of the project. Not enough time to take 5 minutes to update supporters is BS.
I think it's amazing how entitled everyone here seems about getting news. It's the same in every bitcoin security thread.
They gave an update not too long ago that everything is going as planned and that they plan on starting mining not later than september 10th.
Whether you believe that or not is up to you, but you can't deduct from lack of news-feed that they are not just simply working hard on getting everything running and want to present results when there are results to present.
Lack of news right now says absolutely
nothing. If there are no news until september 10th, THEN you can start to be angry about it.
Anyway, I too have a strong feeling that they won't keep that "10th september" deadline, just because empirical evidence suggests that no one in hardware production ever keeps any such deadlines...
They have an untested chip to put on an untested board, and their expectations seem to be that everything will work without any problems, which I find a bit naive.
I'm still absolutely bullish on LC, and I really don't mind if it takes them a little longer, but I can already picture how absolutely batshit insane people will go if there's just the slightest bit of a delay.