If he was competent and had well developed business acumen you could say he might be able to make some profit from such a deal. But you are right he has F-ed up everything he has done for ACTM. Nothing has been a success. It's failure all round and it's all down to Ken.

He ignored the Advisory Board advice that would have had us rich by now. If this is what Ken is planning WHOSE advice is he seeking? Is he being told it's a very bad deal? And is he again ignoring that advice because he is stubborn? Like you say he could be buying garbage. If the HF chips are good and could sell why wouldn't HF sell them to retail themselves???

I really doubt Ken has any funds to buy the HashFast inventory. He would easily be out-bid by any number of companies who have FAR more money that Ken has. He must be down to the last few hundred thousand. If anyone gets the HF chips it will be KnC and infact the quote mentions them going out of the US.