Will my pending mining balance still be paid out? I Haven't received a payment for more than 12 hours from alpha pool.

Anyone who claims ASICS kill coins are out of their mind.

Look at bitcoin, the first ASIC PoW coin... Still going strong.

ASICs make any network safer at a higher cost efficiency. The fact that the companies that make them are unethical by selling them only after mining them for 3-6 months has nothing to do with ASICS, it has to do with those people. So instead of going after ASICs, which are only great, go after the companies that are doing unethical business.

The cryptonight ASICs (or many of them) were sold at discounts recently, this makes it highly likely that the hashpower coming from them is rather distributed

1/2 arrived yesterday, the other one comes today.

Setting up Wifi bridge and unpacking PSU as we speak.

Ordered two miners yesterday, transferred payment through WU. First I got an email from WU stating I had to call to provide more information. Decided to do it the next day and go to bed. When I woke up 7 hours later the money was picked up so it went through without my call. A couple of hours after that (like 6) I got a DHL tracking number in less than 24h from them as well as detailed contact information. A couple hours later the order was processed at DHL in China. All in all about 20 hours from order to processing at DHL.
Expecting arrival on monday.