Please link you article when you are finished  

This is a fair point (not that my opinion is relevant, as no court case or other precedent has yet established either way)

However someone would have a legit argument if they wanted the cost and complexity of a court case.  A Bitcoin miner can't make any Bitcoin not allowed by the protocol.  The protocol has always allowed only 21M coins.  On day zero there were 21M coins available (for someone with sufficient hashing power).  The protocol decides how and when a Miner will receive a coin (as a subsidy for securing the network).

^ Note the above shouldn't be seen as legal advice.  Ultimately on this or any other issue what matters is what the old guy in a robe thinks, still many judges are logical and a logical argument can be made that Bitcoin miners aren't "creating" coins anymore than gold miners are creating gold.  They are simply "unlocking" them.

Jesus, you people really don't pay attention to anything at all.

A "money services business" is someone who holds (fiat) money for someone else.

A "money transmitter" is someone who holds (fiat) money for someone else and carries it across jurisdictional boundaries.

"Money" is guaranteed future value.

None of this has anything to do with Bitcoin, although they would like you to believe it does.  It's a hoax.  It's a psy-op.  All they are doing is telling you how they will respond if you try to peg your "virtual currency" to the US dollar.  And they are telling you this because they have to give you notice in order to limit their own liability for any assumptions made regarding their defective ponzi money.  They are limiting their own liability for their practice of transmitting the use of force via scrip, in arbitrarily regulating its value by money-printing and confiscation.

Bitcoin is not pegged to anything.  It does not have "equivalent value" in "real" US dollar currency.  It is not a "substitute" for "real" US dollar currency.  It is not given arbitrary value by anyone and thus is not based on the transmission of force.  It is not "convertible" for anything.  It isn't even "money" technically.

This is 100% nonsense that only applies to perhaps a couple of businesses in the Bitcoin community that peg their vouchers to the US dollar.

If you idiots respond to this in the way in which it was designed for you to respond, and stop mining and increase the centralization of Bitcoin and voluntarily sign up for regulations that don't actually apply to you, then you might as well just flush your Bitcoins down the toilet.

Yeah this is the hard part

MSB is an umbrella term.  A money transmitter (or check casher, or issuer of prepaid access) are all MSB.  All Money transmitters are MSB but not all MSB are money transmitters.  FinCen has no specific "Money Transmitter" registration.  They register MSBs.  They register check cashers as MSB, issuers of prepaid access (stored value) as MSBs, and Money Transmitters as MSB.  There are seven activities which a company can declare when registering as a MSB.  It is possible for a single entity to be registered as an MSB conducting more than one activity (i.e. WU is a money transmitter and also issues money orders).

From the source....

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=1308d21216c7d185f6892cfa3276c899&rgn=div5&view=text&node=31:3.1.6.1.2&idno=31#31:3.1.6.1.2.2.3.1

This is what Bitcoin businessmen actually believe.

Good one...

yes, What about bearer bonds and letters of Credit, Or Stock futures, this guideline is ridiculous

http://www.fincen.gov/forms/files/fin107_msbreg.pdf

For those curious, this is the actual federal form.