Thingiverse, Printables, and MakerWorld :)

Reddit has great communities too!

You should, be warned it's like going into a rabbit hole, it has A LOT of depth. Like, yeah you can download cute models and gift people or start a shop, but it can be more than that like engineering devices that blend with electronics, or even to improve people's lives.

Check out this picture of a carpal tunnel syndrom aid printed by someone I know when they were going through a painful moment, when a doctor saw it they decided to also get a 3D printer so they could do it for patients.

I just love the idea you can do so many great things with it, how can we not be excited and leveraging it as much as possible.

It's not that I don't want to get the Bambu, I'm just pacing myself, after all spending money is a small part in any endeavor and you can always spend lots of money, often without a clear need, so pacing spending with learning is my way of practicing low-time preference, if that makes any sense.

Honestly I'm just a tinkerer, I like to do cool stuff and it often pushes the boundaries of my primary education which makes me really happy, but that also means I'm often the newbie in different fields trying to learn my way.

Thank you for the words of encouragement, the post was a bit of a rant but mostly just an attempt to connect with people who share the same interests and struggles ❤

EDIT: Obico, former Spaghetti Detective is the name of the service. It can be found here: https://www.obico.io/the-spaghetti-detective.html

I have no affiliation with them.

Damn, thank you for the answer, this was more educational than a lot of research I've been doing.

My biggest takeway is that the "industry" is still infant so problems will be solved over time as new features, I say this in the spirit of adjacent industries like photography that used to have a huge entry barrier and nowadays a person with little photography knowledge and a phone can take great pictures or videos. So the complexity is usually abstracted away as technology matures.

That also means there is lots of opportunities in this space to help address these issues like the guys from Obico (creators of Spagetthi Detector) are doing, pretty cool stuff!

To be fair there are examples of movements like ethical hacking, cypherpunks and privacy advocates that are private and cause a bigger impact than laws IMHO.

I appreciate the criticism, I'm trying to understand this ecash space to see if there is really something to it or if it's just smoke.

I will play devil's advocate and challenge some of the arguments I read from @justin_shocknet.

Even if their current version doesn't support multisig which I'm not sure is true or not, is there any technical limitation stopping it from happening? If not it will probably happen over time, even it's a fork.

My main question is how the federation would be formed with a healthy sample of people who are unlike to collude later? If there is a group creating a wallet like Minibits and they also operate a mint, even if federated I think the amount of trust deposited in a group who are probably close to each other makes it unappealing to me.

Knots look cool and it's a dependency to use things like DATUM, so I've been planing an upgrade to my node's hardware so I can transition between Core and Knots without any disruption, who knows maybe I keep both. It would be nice if they could share the same blockchain files as they write and read from the same place.

Nice, I guess the note works like a context for that identity, if you wanted to be serious about "isolating" them to protect yourself.

I meant more in the sense of the "strategy" and boundaries for each identity, assuming you would reuse nyms across different sites.

Cool! I guess I missed the timing and never actually tried Casa node.

Assuming you have other nyms or had them in the past, how do/did you manage multiple identities?

Having a known name and face help with business at the cost of exposing you a lot more and making security a lot harder, right?

What about the Fermi paradox?

I remember that! It was sad when you guys decided to discontinue and didn't open source what was in place.

I ran a raspiblitz back then, but I wanted the Casa node.