So ASICMINER don't have secondary pool in case 1st pool went offline

. Isn't that like.... easy to setup or something?
We are switching to solo mode since we could not find enough pools having stable connection from China to distribute the hashpower.
The solo solution is being tested/done along with the deployment. The only problem is transparency. We plan to do it with writing information to the coinbase transaction to let everyone check.
just use the same address the whole time...
(sorry if this was said already)
also should I be upset that I sold shares at 1.1 to buy a blade?
hmm. complex situation... i honestly don't know what i'd have done in your shoes. depends on how many shares you sold compared ot your overall holdings, as well as how much the blade will increase your personally hash holdings.