you don't think its more likely that they've finished their first silicon and are now hiring a team for their second silicon. In other news, kncminer's design partner, Alchip announced they're working on their second KnC silicon yesterday and BitFury is working on their second one..
Starting the second chip seems to be what people tend to do after they've finished the first chip. Since hashfast has taped out already, do you think their asic engineers are now twiddling their thumbs or do you think may also be working on the next one too? which is it, hashfast fanboy?
While that is possible, it doesn't seem likely to me... but the purpose of the post was to have Cointerra comment on why they are hiring prior to announcing a chip status update for Goldstrikes.
Cointerra please respond.