Can you point to which Washington law disallows playing skilled games for money? As well as point to which law in those states that disallow playing skilled games for money. I tried searching but couldn't find anything.

The chessmoney.com website faq says that some states disallow online gaming for money even if the game is purely skill based and has no random chance. It lists the following states as disallowing playing chess for money: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisana, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Washington and Vermont.
https://www.chessmoney.com/cm/main?page=faq#faq11

I also found on Yahoo answers a question where the person said he made over $1000 on PlayE4 chess but couldn't withdraw the money because playing chess for money is illegal in Washington state.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090210183008AADK6Dy
 
Can anyone confirm if these statements are correct, wrong, or misleading? Also it would be interesting to ask the same questions about bitcoin instead of money.

On Bitme's website (bitme.com) has the below message. Does anyone know why BitMe is shutting down?

    Important!

    BitMe is suspending operations indefinitely. The website will remain up until April 15.

    Great thanks to all of our customers, it's been a lot of fun serving you!

Given that the Heroku platform has only a read filesystem how does one generate bitcoin address for each sale on a site running on Heroku. Is there a simple solution to using bitcoin on Heroku?

And the fact that cyborg players will win is the whole reason why allowing computers doesn't make chess boring.

Thats my intention. I don't see anything wrong with fights between supercomputers.

How exactly would you make a site about playing chess competitively for bitcoins? Use of computers would be allowed so that would eliminate the problem of trying to prevent cheating. Exactly how would you handle deposits of bitcoins in a secure way. Would accepting bitcoins for deposit for use in chess entail having to deal with money licensing laws or whatever laws out there. And how would you make the user interface for arranging a game of chess very smooth and simple?

Also on a side note, whatever happened to the various play chess for bitcoins sites out there?

Computer chess tournament gambling sounds good. But that doesn't answer the question, what happens if people from outside the United States uses the site even if the United States itself calls it legal.

Is starting an online chess bitcoin gambling site like online poker sites illegal? I've heard that because chess is a game of pure skill it does not fall under the typical illegal status in the United States. Is this true? Supposing that online chess gambling was legal in the United States what would happen if players from outside the United States started using the site? Could the company running the site from United States be in legal trouble with regards to the law in other countries because their citizens accessed the site and gambled?

Does anyone know the comprehensive list of instant payment solutions? And specifically among the green address category, whats the list of sites that implement it?

Oh ok so then whats the idea after the transaction to the unique address is confirmed? Should one just send all the bitcoins to a single address before selling on mtgox?

Also how computational expensive is it to create a new address each time?

How does the idea of green addresses work at www.instawallet.org? It looks like there is one singled out "green address" that the buyer is suppose to send bitcoin from. But how does the seller know the bitcoin transaction originated from the buyer if it comes from a generic green address. And suppose there are multiple buyers using the same green address then how does the seller know who paid for what?

Does the seller verify bitcoins were sent by looking at a 2nd transfer from the buyers bitcoin address to the green address? But then what if multiple buyers are buying the same type of object and one of them decides to send bitcoins manually to the green address and so no bitcoins are sent to the seller. How would the seller figure out which among all these buyers didn't actually get bitcoins sent from the green address?

What is the consensus on how to make instant transactions work in bitcoin while of course avoiding double spending. I've heard of various things like green address.

But consider implementing some generic game on a website that involves betting with bitcoin. How would you make instant transactions work given the following constraints.

• No deposits
  The website must not hold deposits of bitcoins. Maintaining deposits is a security annoyance. Bets are instead placed through transactions from a bitcoin wallet that is under full control of the player. When a player wins the bitcoins that were being temporarily held by the server are sent to the winner. And the game continues on. Therefore response needs to be fast and the transactions must be instant.
• Minimize having to refund because one player backs out of bet
  A bet involves two players and before the game continues both players must send their bet of bitcoins. If one player sends their bet but the other leaves the game, then the first player must be refunded their bitcoins. However this means that those refunded bitcoins are useless until the refund transaction is confirmed by the bitcoin network (could take tens of minutes?). In a fast paced game this decrease in effective usable bitcoins could be unacceptable. I would like to avoid the effects of these annoying leavers.

In order to make using bitcoins easy and user friendly there obviously needs to be something like one-click purchasing (just like buying with google checkout doesn't require 50 million clicks).

Since bitcoins are typically stored on the user's harddrive and the browser doesn't have access to the harddrive this presents a problem.

Is there something like a chrome extension that manages the user's bitcoin wallet and makes it so that the seller can integrate a special button on their website that the extension understands. A click on that special button executes the code of the chrome extension to send bitcoins since obviously this can't be done through javascript given security issues.

If someone can show me this working as simple as google checkout I would love to see it. Right now using bitcoins is just too damn involved. There needs to be a simple interface.