No, payouts are late again. I could add some sarcastic remark here about rewriting payout systems overnight, but I won't

This gives us a direct pulse on what's going on behind all the smoke and mirrors. They're just a bunch of hacks like everybody else.
Probably hipsters in there (cheap to pay) relearning the same old lessons because they're not following industry standard practices.
If you look at erics linkedin profile he has the chops to handle what they are doing. My bet is they are growing too fast and attempting to do too much at once. It also doesn't help that people are buying tons of hashlets and probably leaving them as singles which adds to the db and increases the time needed to process payouts.
Agreed.. i think a lot of the issues stem from the exponential growth the past few weeks... I'm sure they are staffing up more and creating more SOPs and procedures for things. You can't plan for every contingency with something this "new".
They should also add an automatic merge function, If more than 5 hashlets of the same type are owned they get merged to a set of 5, this would still allow easier selling of them until they offer the ability to split. When they allow splits, they should only be split when transferred to another user and then immediately merged.