A couple thoughts:

1) Surely the number of refund requests will not exactly equal a multiple of 10K. What will happen to the remainder? Clearly, some refunds will not be processed.

2) I’m wondering how many later batch purchasers have not paid for assembly but would be willing to if given the opportunity to move to an earlier batch - especially if rumors of impending shipments of ASICs are true.

I believe steamboat will do the right thing, a fair thing, regarding refunds on assembly - his past performance has been a clear demonstration of this - even if some here are too impatient for his methodicalness.

However, if his situation does not allow him to come through (i.e. he has sunk funds into infrastructure that is not recoverable), could we not solve the situation in some cases ourselves? I’m suggesting purchasers of earlier batches not request ASIC refunds but sell their assembled K16s to later batches of chip only buyers who claim a refund on their chips in order to fund the purchase of assembled miners. I’m hoping that the silence from SB on this matter is him trying to organize a similar solution. If such a thing is possible it is a very complex problem that depends on how many of which type of order was received and in what order - and in the end, as with refunds, not everyone would get what they want.