exchange instability is a big problem for BTC right now

bitcoin really needs established escrow services to take off

Satoshi Nakamoto mentioned this in his white paper if you recall

I've been using slush's pool and it seems to payout when it says it will and has a pretty straight forward interface.

Would love to see some more recommendations though.

So do they even have the production capacity to make 400 units a day (as some have estimated) with 1 mydata m9 pick and place machine and the other 2 different machines they bought? Shouldn't they be buying more machines with all that pre-order money to fill their pre-orders ASAP?

The answer is yes. Sort of. If a massive EMP blast or a large number of smaller ones knocked out a big chunk of the network then somebody like ASICminer could easily control the majority of the blockchain if they are lucky enough to be unaffected. They could initiate a 51% attack soon pretty easily even without an EMP blast knocking the network out.

I haven't heard of that service. Did you research them before ordering?

I assume they just order stuff from amazon for you?