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This is my first post in here, so greetings everyone!

My first item in sterling silver arrived yesterday and I thought I'd share my excitement here.

It is a bitcoin ring. If you don't know what bitcoins are, they're a new decentralised, digital peer to peer currency that's got a lot of people really
excited. If you'd like to find out more, check out http://www.bitcoin.org/

Here are some pics of my new design, and some of the original design too:











The ring with the larger logo is the original design, in stainless steel.

Hope you like them
Cheers!



]]> goebat 2011-07-05T15:30:43-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30237&th=5722#msg_30237
Crazy virtual coin concept !

Just read a minute ago about it and how a hacker created those coins for him self on some victims PCs.. nuts..

What's more amazing is that there are e-businesses/merchants that started accepting this coin.. a new e-revolution?





]]> dizingof 2011-07-05T17:31:00-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30279&th=5722#msg_30279
It is a pretty revolutionary concept. I'm not sure exactly what hacking incident you're referring to, but there have been some high profile hacks targeting bitcoin recently, most notably one of the major exchanges got hacked and they got away with a few thousand bitcoins, and some guy had his wallet file on his pc breached. As for creating fake bitcoins - that's nearly impossible to do AFAIK. You'd need access to processing power greater than the combined processing power of the entire bitcoin network to do that - which at this point is MASSIVE. Because people can generate bitcoins by processing the algorithms necessary to keep the network secure, thousands of people have started "mining" bitcoins using dedicated multiple GPU based setups, so that's a lot of processing power preserving the integrity of the currency.

Anyway, it's definitely an interesting technology to keep an eye on. It's not the most stable currency right now with some pretty wild fluctuations in value, but I recon it will stabilise once more people start to adopt it.

An e-revolution indeed! I like that the ring is kind of a mash-up of 2 revolutionary technologies - 3d printing and bitcoins! Now, if only I can get shapeways to accept bitcoin as payment...

]]> goebat 2011-07-06T10:13:57-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30317&th=5722#msg_30317
Leigh ]]> MuseumofSmallThings 2011-07-07T00:51:19-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30343&th=5722#msg_30343 goebat 2011-07-07T09:21:05-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30344&th=5722#msg_30344
If you update the second photograph on your model page to be the first image, we can feature this on the front page.

Awesome]]> bitstoatoms 2011-07-07T09:58:43-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30348&th=5722#msg_30348
I've deleted the rendering and re-uploaded it to shuffle the images around.

Many thanks!]]> goebat 2011-07-07T10:55:44-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30353&th=5722#msg_30353 bitstoatoms 2011-07-07T12:25:16-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30355&th=5722#msg_30355 Youknowwho4eva 2011-07-07T12:27:30-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30357&th=5722#msg_30357 goebat 2011-07-07T12:38:07-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30358&th=5722#msg_30358 goebat 2011-07-07T12:39:20-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=30361&th=5722#msg_30361 Sorry to bother, but can you make a real tight crop the first image as it is a little hard to see on the front page gallery.

Cheers

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]]> goebat 2011-07-07T17:25:21-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=31483&th=5722#msg_31483
I just received my first Bitcoin ring in Silver Polished - and it looks stunning!

Close - up:


Another close - up:


Side-by-side comparison with a Silver ring (hand polished by myself - I obviously didn't do as good a job as the shapeways team):


Another comparison shot:


A cheeky shot with my stash so far:



It even came in a groovy little black pouch - very nice touch guys!

I'm very happy with this finish - well worth the extra cashola.

Cheers!

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