If I sell you equipment that makes bitcoins using 500GH/s and offer to ship it (per our plan) in October if you pay a very high premium. Then fail to send it within that time frame....
What you get is a machine that produces less product (bitcoins) as the days roll forward. Every 11 days, the machine losses a percentage of it's productive capacity.
If in the time from October till December the machine lost -90% of it's productive capacity....then a representative being "happy" to announce a +25% increase in efficiency makes no literal sense.
Why would someone be happy about a meager increase in efficiency if by the time it ships it will be completely negated by rising difficulty when it gets into it's customers hands? The machine might not even pay itself off due to decreasing efficiency at producing bitcoins.
HashFast still anticipates shipping Batch One before the Dec 31 deadline.
If we fail to ship within the advertised Oct-Dec time frame, refunds will be issued.
All Batch One orders come with the Miner Protection Plan, providing up to 400% more hashpower than initially purchased.
This MPP has been upgraded twice, free of charge.
The first upgrade changed the raw chips into complete miniboards.
The second upgrade started the MPP countdown on Oct 31, instead of the shipping date.
And now, HashFast is giving its customers an extra 25% initial hashing power beyond the advertised spec.
Those are three significant factors giving HashFast customers a good chance to keep up with the rising difficulty (which is beyond our control).