Quote from: perezoso on July 19, 2014, 03:47:30 AM

Hushen: "I hired an accountant, I've had four turn over in the last two months." (@~2:52:30)

If the average tenure of employment of a new accountant at Hashfast is two weeks, it sounds to me like these guys take a look at the books and say "Get me out of here!"

But, man that's a long exchange between Igor and Monica. Both of them make me want to cringe. Igor for being such a pedant (although I'm on his side!), and Monica for being a condescending jerk.

And who was it, one of the women, who said (earlier), "He's from Europe, he has a different east." It didn't sound like a joke.

Please tell me it was their lawyer, and not ours, who thinks that the cardinal directions vary from continent to continent! Grin

This Guido Ochoa.... $500k... a Venezuelan Socialist politician? One wonders if his plan isn't to evade his own government's currency controls. Do we know if he paid USD cash?

At the very end... if it's "under $20 for the [new] substrate and assembly", and the new substrate is "less than half" the cost of the current one (quoting Simon), do I understand correctly, then, that the original assembled boards (without the chips) probably cost Hashfast something like $45-50 each? They had chips on hand. So chip + $50 = working board? And they had component supplies on hand? Why the hell couldn't they ship more systems? If this was the case, they could have furloughed everybody for a week, taken the salary saved, and had the money to build and ship quite a few machines. What am I missing?

The substrate is the little PCB that the four dies are placed on. Simon is saying that they can place the cut dies on a chip for $20. Making boards will cost significantly more than that.