About the NMC, if ASICMINER exchanges it on BTC-e, it should make it in a way that does not make the exchange rate sink down. The market for NMC is really shallow compared to BTC.
Besides, BTC-e is not the only NMC exchange, Vircurex and Cryptonit also exchange NMC <-> BTC
Folks, my sense here, is that even if he could get this to work, Friedcat would be mis-utilizing his time and energy to pursue this, as he is pressed to capacity hiring solid people, doing accounting and transfers, working on building out datacenters, sourcing parts, running a mining operation, running auctions, and generally overseeing production of a crap ton of boards and usb sticks.
Let's keep focused on the big picture here. At the scale AM operates this is a waste of time.
-helixone