to further mix metaphors:

Blood in the water has gotten the sharks into a feeding frenzy, and all the little fish have run away,

Dealing with a real world fabrication enterprise is never easy, and more often than not it will run over budget and schedule. Often there will be unforeseen delays and problems, such as the 100200th mine and bitfury chips. Even more often the people who know what is really going on are to busy to tell anyone other than the boss, who fears to lose face by admitting anything is behind schedule.
Hopefully news will be forthcoming soon