@ True Cryptonaire:
over at Un-Ex, I am fumbling with 'Project Hoover,' which will make available for sale small 'packets' of cheap Uno. Feel free to spread the word among other newcomers (and come and start getting yourselves 'Trusted Trader' status):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=757232.0[There are 10 Uno available right now for .14 Btc.]
EDIT: In mid-2013, when Ian Ridgwell and I first started experimenting with 'in-house' exchanges,
people laughed at us. Well, it's official: B-ter is finished! Two weeks after Mycoin. After the Bitstamp hack. After Cavirtex. After DDOS on CCDEK.
Automated exchanges have a place,
but perhaps a wise community keeps one foot planted firmly in an unhackable, community-strengthening 'home-base' exchange?