I've been involved with allot of IT projects. with tight deadlines
Most of the times it was working throughout the night and really almost no time to even sleep.
Considering Labcoin is quite a small team. i would be even impressed if they can make the deadline exactly on time.
Remember the IC's and PCB's were delivered just 2 weeks ago. and the thumb rule is, everything that can go wrong will most likely
I bet their working their asses off right now trying to get it stable and hashing.
Even a batch of resistors who have bigger tolerance than expected can trow off the deadline, result all the boards must be re-soldered with another batch of resistors.
...but THEY are setting these timelines. Also THEY have a guy that lacks technical skillz but whose (only?) job is to liaise with shareholders. It's beyond dumb to set timelines of your own choosing and then miss them. While they haven't done that in this instance yet, they have done this in the past and TOO BUSY doesn't cut it, because they have a guy whose job description is talking.
+1