I'm pretty sure ZZ is thinking there is some advantages that Ken can take over the failings of Hashfast. I'm not sure what those would actually be, because Hashfast owes people orders/money. So Ken can't turn out replacement Hashfast boards if he hasn't been paid. And he can't afford to buy them and their debt out. Maybe he could sell to future orders, but I think getting into bed with Hashfast could be a huge mistake...
Ken said he has the potential to order 5,000 boards. HF have enough chips for sale that's clear but they are broke. For us to fab 5k boards would likely cost 500k USD (100usd each)? And to buy the chips would be another 1Mill (200usd each)?
Problem number 1 is we don't have 1.5 Mill usd (3,300 BTC)
Problem no 2 is no-one is buying from us even with some of the cheapest prices on the market.
We have no money left - we can only make these boards if BTC shoots up.
There will be plenty of companies making HF boards soon who DO have funds to invest right now (HF didn't just sell board plans to actm). There could be 20 HF board fabbers soon.
Problem 3 - even if Ken had the money to make lots of boards and put chips on them I think he would not be a success at it. He can't fix a website and sell some of the cheapest miners on the market that are IN STOCK right now. Ken ignored advice from the Advisory Board that would have had us all well off by now. He is too set in his own ways and doing things his own way to be a success at this game. The competition will be miles ahead of us right now as always.