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I have pointed them to the API documentation that I use, however they were uninterested in that. I also tried contacting the maintainers of the API, they didn't have anything for me.

It's using the official Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), not scraping web sites.

Actually I did ask them, they (unsurprisingly) didn't have anything like that.

A few weeks ago I updated my Hacker News iOS client to use the new API:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-zero/id764890985...

What is someone were to trade one cryptocurrency for another?

For example, if I bought Litecoins with Bitcoins, and later sold for a gain in Bitcoins, how would I be taxed? From the article it seems I would only be taxed until I ultimately realized my gains in USD. Would I have to maintain a record of all my "altcoin" transactions in this case?

The article mentions there is a $200 exemption for personal transactions. However this only applies to personal transactions, not investments.

This also appears to not yet apply to Bitcoin, only "recognized" currencies like the Euro.