No fan of VMC, but if they're real, well then, why not just form a small miners coop, take the chips, and collectively negotiate assembly by VMC (or other bidders, if any) onto boards?
You are failing on me... You don't need VMC, you don't want to have anything to do with VMC, and you probably want to sue the hell out of VMC.
VMC adds exactly zero value to our case. It subtracts it.
You and me and few other guys on this forum are not going to create a viable production line overnight. It's going to have to be somebody with the capability to do it. I hate VMC too, but if they are able... I'd rather have liquidbits, if they are able, but the size of their illegitmate chip claim rules them out. They'd have to come to Jesus and come to more reasonable terms with the other creditors.
But to be clear, the chip divvying scenario, in my head, is predicated upon the absolute and final death of Hashfast and stripping of the management of any proceeds.