anenome5, that was such a good point I just had to quote this time....gets the wheels spinning a little bit in regards to long term adoption by the masses as a form of currency worldwide, especially as a form of remittances and what you just brightly pointed out....TRANSACTION FEES!!

A wafer level test usually takes less than a second. The infrastructure is there already. All you have to do is to provide a test pattern file (STIL/WGL). For a miner even a small amount of vectors would give you very high coverage. IMHO the only reason for not doing this is if the yield is known and so low that the cost of in-fab testing exceeds the cost of the scrapped devices, boards, re-flow, re-ball or whatever cost you have related to mounting defective devices and testing them during your own production run. I would expect them to save time by doing in-fab test since they will have more confidence in the actual ASIC if the first assembled miner does not work and it might save debugging time. Of course this is not an at-speed test so there might be other issues, but still you will have a higher confidence that the actual part you just mounted is not faulty.

Well lets hope we hear some good news this coming week!

In my experience it's not always optimal to do things different than the regular procedure as you will deal with people which have no experience on how to handle the situation.

What will the Arlanda customs officers do when someone arrives with a huge box of heavily packaged commercial merchandise worth thousands of dollars sealed in foil? They are used to search for drugs, alcohol, and other stuff among dirty underwear. What if they insists on keeping it for further inspection? Or what if they open the sealed bags and you have to re-bake the chips and get another delay?

Hopefully they have checked out this in advance.

I'm sure Arlanda customs will be more than willing to oblige native residents with local businesses only a few miles down the road that pertain to the exact product being transported, especially as it clearly isn't a substance, but a necessary component. That is if it is arriving by this means at all...

*If* that's the case, they will probably arrange clearance ahead of time by informing customs as to the exact nature of their goods. In any case most customs care less about legality, of which this isn't even remotely a concern, and more about duty and levy, of which KnC are doing everything by the book. They are paying tax and not breaking rules either legal or ethical with respect to queue order. They want a legitimate long term business, not  a throw at a roulette table with customer funds, otherwise they would have avoided accountability from third parties securing payment and fraudulently lied telling you whatever you wanted to hear with respect to promised power consumption, theoretical, not realistic hashrate and bullshit, now 'anticipated' bullshit delivery times, to make you part with your cash for indefinite periods of time like other companies doing this right now.

Lay off the crack pipe. 

What if it went like this

So, it's 8 days an counting down for KNCminer to fulfill their first ship promise.