the chip was Barber. but all around him were hobbyist with actor skills and GetRichQuick mentality.
Barber was also the one that didn't stop his own company from claiming that everything was still on track for shipping in a few days:
1) The day before announcing an undefined delay, that would have afterwards be explained as a
2) Substrate delay
3) That doesn't explain in any way the board delay, since that in the delay announcement every other component of the miner is claimed to be "on schedule or ahead of schedule", and when asked to prove it, they
4) Claimed to have pictures of the boards on hand that couldn't be released due to a NDA and
5) After having realised that the outsourced things weren't going properly, failed to produce a working board until mid Jan, and last but not least,
6) Helped everyone else dissipating what was left after the involuntary chapter 7 converting it to chapter 11, negotiating a deal with liquidbits that would have profited him and the rest of the management, while taking a month long holiday in the process.
... And that is a partial list.
So yeah, the problem wasn't everyone but Barber. The problem was that they decided to fuck us and our money, and the us law has protected them in their legalised theft so far.
And off course, they did so collectively. So they must have benefited collectively.
