Thanks for getting the ball rolling, Laszlo, history was made that day.

Florida state law is different than US law and much of what you are discussing is Florida law. Fincen is the US agency, not related to Florida.

"The first ruling states that, to the extent a user creates or “mines” a convertible virtual currency solely for a user’s own purposes, the user is not a money transmitter under the BSA. The second states that a company purchasing and selling convertible virtual currency as an investment exclusively for the company’s benefit is not a money transmitter,” the release states."
- http://www.coindesk.com/fincen-bitcoin-miners-investors-money-transmitters

"The second ruling enabled companies to buy virtual currencies for themselves, selling them on an exchange later for their own purposes."
- http://www.coindesk.com/congressional-leaders-foundation-praise-fincen-guidance

 ie NOT illegal in US. But again Florida is operating under their own more restrictive MSB rules.

So much non-sense. Seriously go do some basic trading on an exchange with 1 btc (or even 1 ltc) and get some basic buy/sell understanding of the market. Really it will open your eyes and mind to price movements. Not to mention there are these crazy things called computers that make trades automatically. 

Yo that's off the chain! 

ugh...unless our wallets are empty... 

BitcoinOrama, just wanted to say thanks for the significant insight (and putting yourself in the line of fire of seemingly drunk rednecks) thus robbing me of needed sleep... 

"It's the lure of easy money..it has a very strong appeal."

/namethat   

Sounds cool so far, especially auto-trading. I think your idea about a 5-7% fee structure of any gains is the best payment model since it proves your belief in your own algorithm/product. Making the charting free for others will eventually generate plenty of more and more "paying" customers. The 1m, 5m, 10m views would be most helpful to see the latest history trend of orders.

Gigabyte 7950 ~ 560Mhs (tested for LTC/scrypt 691Khs)
MSI 7870 ~ 420Mhs x2
Mac 6750M ~ 60Mhs
Nvdia GT something gets ~ 15Mhs

It's a minimal effort requirement to build trust... and to learn how to click the post button

I like the hybrid blockchain.info myself

Yea wish I had signed up a while when I started learning and reading up... o well, doin' time...

Guys just understand there is ALOT of market manipulation in trading with alt-coins... keep your eyes and ears open as the cream rises to the top. It seem at least open source projects at least have some level of trust.

While it may be true that BTC is the gold standard and most alt-coins are goofy, the marketplace is deciding what each is worth. If I can mine [insert-goofy-name/pizza]-coin and convert it somewhere to BTC then it clearly has value to mine. When chinacoin came out, I thought it might be cool if there was a world-coin...and poof... wdc appeared. Being opensource with fast transaction times makes it very interesting at least...

Yep I'm new to post here also but been reading and learning for a bit...