There's plenty of good services in the US. Not sure what your point is there. New ones popping up all the time, e.g Atomic-Trade, licenced to trade crypto to USD, and bittrex, also US based. The UK has also just clarified tax laws to make it easier for UK services.
I don't want to come across as a troll who just turned up on your quark thread, but I took issue with QRK being called "fast" and "the most secure". To be fair to you guys, you have a great community. Best of luck to your coin.
I don't think you were trolling, its an aspect of different markets this market here is a mining market just like Cryptsy is a mining exchange, i'm not saying mining is not important it is , but one has to recognize that there is a whole other world out there.
the big question is confidence so that was my point, when Crypto is existing in a hostile environment in the US, when Banks and Banking agents are setting up institutions to fail, this come from that hostility its a known fact that BRICs nations do not have that hostility because they are not directly threatened by Crypto, only the Financial institutions that are attempting to rule the world are threatened.
if you have not been keeping up with things they are not in BRICs nations, while the Central Bank of China has influence its ultimately an institution, same with the Russian general situation etc.
in the West, due to weak government structures these financial institutions rule absolutely, that's ok if many can not understand that it take a little time to understand these things.
so in summary its about where is the safer place, in the West unless an exchange is definitly linked to a name we can trust, how do we know its not a Bank setup job?
then even if it is legit how can we know how much pressure Banks are putting on the owners? , this was obvious with the MtGox USD withdrawal issue.
BRICs Exchanges exist with no molesting hands, the best they can pull off is a DDos.
so right now the future of Crypto looks eastward to me, its not that simple but just how it looks.