I need to figure out how to apply an image to the surface of a 3d object to be stored as an .stl file, so I can 3d print branded swap for individuals and businesses. How about I print and mail your own branded medallion, with an NFC tag embedded in it as payment for your assistance?

I'll practice what I learn with your own custom design...

What can you find for us all on this subject?

I may not be the only one interested in the subject of custom 3d modeling. I've found some stuff, but more eyes on this subject will find more solutions for us all.

If I offered my services as a traveling "Make-Ready-4-Sale" punch out guy, would you pay me in LN sats for knocking out the punch-lists you prepare your property owners?

Have tools/skills, will travel. Updating US passport ASAP...

Self-sovereign home/office compounds for self-sovereign sats anyone???

I offer the fiat plantation house slaves I often still work for (Bitcoiners tend to be too DIY and too frugal to pay for construction upgrades) a 10% discount of my stated rate for paper fiat at the time of service. Almost ALL of them take me up on this, IF I provide sufficient forward notice.

I also offer another 10% for payments made in LN sats, a 20% "banking inconvenience fee".

The fact is, 90% of the wealth in the world is still in the hands of ignorant, fiat-games winners now in near retirement/dementia/Alzheimer's age ranges. Many "old dogs" can't learn "new tricks", they simply don't have the mental bandwidth. I'm still dealing with clients writing paper checks, as well as not-so-useful idiots using payment rails like Venmo/Zelle/etc.

The ONLY way to be able to demand ONLY sats is to be so useful and have stacked so many sats already that you're able to wait for and find those who value your market offerings more than their sats. For many Bitcoiners, this means we must be Very Thirsty for a solution, or we'll keep our sats to ourselves.

More of us need to learn to value high quality art though. Becoming direct patrons of the Artists and the Arts we personally love, showing it with the apex form of Love Language: satoshis!

Your point here puts the risks of Near Field Communication into perspective.

When do I get to #tap2zap with LN sats on an NFC tag, as a voucher or a pin-protected wallet like nostr:npub1mayqdaq0sd5f4uexa6aky3agr982vhqs3rw7qwm6yr9h5zetdg4q4shl50

What do we have to do to activate this super power?

How about a #GeyserGrant to fund a bounty to the Dev that writes that Nip for us all..?

This is truly a state-of-the-art construction solution. Both the locally grown bamboo and the basalt versions are amazing building materials in their own ways.

I've been working on many similar designs for decades now. In typical 100th Monkey Effect, the smartest humans having been exploring better ways of building our homes coming up with the same answers. Each variation on these answers works in different times and places for different people.

Our self-sovereignty tool box is filling in beautifully.

Combine this with the www.homebiogas.com and #aquaponics, #blacksoldierfly, as well as #wood-gas on-demand #hydrogen-generators, #micro-hydro, #wind, & #photovoltaic/battery technologies to craft a full stack of solutions providing on-site residential utilities.

Add in #vermiculture earthworm cultivation, bio-sand water filtration and passive heating to fill in the jigsaw puzzle. This is how we use biomimicry to design, build, and inhabit our homesite as highly adaptive and resilient living ecosystems.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDUlw4KLar92_z_xEXQU9tA0i4g205NvQ&si=Rl10Ul35EctiwlEc

#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1600x720&alt=A+blue+and+white+tiny+dome+home&blurhash=Z36a%23Gr%3D9GITkXNL9GWWE1tS%3Fa9FRkkDRj%252IUkC_3WA%25MIURiR*NG%25LIT%25L%25MIUxYt6IVWXRkt7&x=0d511aab3594c406e88855545f3646a8324ca1e65c13e8b3c30098302e5d3427

You can also use LN Bits on your own server, a rented one, or even LN Bits SaaS. It's wallet excision toolkit let's you spin up your own node through there.

I am about to test this myself soon. Please share your experiences if you try this route, or whatever path you do find works for you as well. Thanks.

I guess that's why as a Taoist Tai Chi practioner I was called to write The Tao of Bitcoin Banking in 2019. It's past time for me to update it with the Lightning Edition of the Tao of Bitcoin.

To my eyes I see Bitcoin as Chi, life force made storable, measurable, and transmitable. Simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, a cloud-like Tai Chi master providing no surface area to attack. A bio-electric battery cultivating the fruits of work by closing the money-printing/inflation voltage losses that t can transmit power across time and space at the speed of though/light/energy.

Does this then mean, like The Force, the Tao/Bitcoin doesn't flow through me, it IS me..?

Wow. It was a huge disappointment when I discovered when in PR in 2021 that Strike didn't work there.

I have been wanting to return there. This is just the sort of reason I needed to return to one of the most beautiful places on earth that's home to some of the my favorite people on Earth.

The population there needs Bitcoin's technology in so many ways. I will be very grateful to help bring liquidity portals out of fiat slave-coin to the entrepreneurs there. I am not talking about most of those in San Juan, the Cantillonian City. I aim to serve those living in the smaller cities and in rural PR. Long time local families not the mainland fiat funded House slaves who've retired into their gilded cages are the ones hungry for freedom and responsibility go up along with number go up technology like bitcoin.

nostr:nevent1qqsvjfdeqyx6ynvvtw0pwucumklz4tprrmtvt9c73q0de92av4z6ykspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrymmd5jemclgqend0n7pfulssmwd77ryksd96r5d39hxs3rfcn6gqcyqqqqqqgf55lyn

Water IS Life! Here's a high pressure non-electric water pump.

https://youtu.be/DFGvAYUc7gM?si=QV8RgM5-5MjnBnwy

This is such a beautiful design for solving one of humanities universal homesteading challenges, "How to efficiently transport water uphill?"

This can be used to fill storage tanks/towers uphill capturing potential energy for use in many ways by using far more reliable technology than electrical pumps that have many points of failure.

For locations with water flows there are many ways to make use of that resource as a pump like this and with enough height drop the potential for micro-hydroelectic power generation too.

The answer to this is for us all to become fully-noded. Becoming 1st Class Satoshi Citizens AND Business by running public/private paired nodes out of our homes and local community server vault/s. Federated, entrusted, portal nodes providing physical servers running Start9 VPNs, LN Bits, BTCPayservers, etc. sheltered within private liquidity lounges. These might start as private cooperatives popping up as hosts for Satoshis-only zones providing afrrdom forum for food, drink, & farmers/food/arts/crafts in a hybrid LN/Nostr trading bazaar. (I am about to plant the seeds for one of these Bitcoiner community cultivators in a college town soon...)

I think LSPs and Noderunners will be wise to Private Membership Associate Membership paperwork as a regulatory prophylactic protecting the Host and the Associate Members.

My "Nym" is a privately created WY LLC created on my behalf by a WY legal agent. Clients pay the LLC, avoiding their needing to 1099 me when compensation exceeds $600. This LLC has a River Financial DCA account setup as a fiat off ramp that turns fiat accepted into LN sats sent to a prism wallet dispersing sats out to multiple accounts.

First of all it got a rave review from CryptoCloaks who has more experience than I do with 3d printing. My limited experience on a low end entry level printer was that bed leveling, adhesion, print time, and climate control of the filament all impact the efficiency of quality prints. I like that this set up has cases for both the filament spools and the print bed to keep chemical smells contained and dut out, while reglating temperatures. I also expect this to give faster prints, done quietly, more consistently, with multi-color prints made even easier.

With the holiday shopping season on us discounts on these are becoming available too. Spending that on more filaments of different types and colors is something I intend to do.

I have seen other printers that have a laser attachment as an add on, but haven't seen one for these yet. Not being able to add that functionality is perhaps cost of better printing, for now at least.

Toshi

Soon I will be getting my hands on one of these. I look forward to running this 3d printer around the clock.

I am already collecting 3d models to print on this printer.

Please send suggestions and requests here.

https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/x1-carbon-combo

3d printer

Let's build a Nostr Market for these 3d model files, perhaps a Plebian Market stall, for selling these files for Zaps...

I like the idea of having trusted hardware hosts running 3d printers, for instance PlebLab out of Austin, with sats-bounties for Plebs in the office who clear these off the printer plates & provide Proof of Print/Shipment to the designers and the Buyers.

This will let 3d graphic designers to outsource the printing hardware acquisition and labor costs out to the closest host of a 3d printer. Printers NOT running 24/7/365 waste opportunities to collect sats, just as letting a mining rig sit dormant. Let's fix this "waste" print capacity!

This seems like potential use case for the hardware that www.satslink.com is about to make available to us all...

I envision localized physical popup only at first, then permanent #SatoshisOnlyEconomicZones, with the Hosts running a Satslink device to enable off line Zapping between peers in the local LN trading post.

Am I mistaken here?

Do you see what I see?

When I build I don't just sweat, I bleed, and if I reacted to pain and/or failure by crying rather than laughing, tears would likely be a daily occurrence, too. A true Warrior, not an armchair spectator, enters the fray prepared to fail, bleed, and possibly die. Doing so because it needs done, without concern for their personal survival.

Building one off prototypes by oneself like this is hard. But coordinating the capital and the people to do so at scale is exponentially more difficult. This applies to the contractual, digital, and virtual realms, as well as the physical.

Here's a solution I've found works great to activate phone numbers anonymously. I used a BTC Co prepaid USD cars to pay the $4.99 one-time expense for them to ship me a Sims card to a friend's PO Box.

Now, my Uber drivers only see me as Ov1!!!

www.textnow.com

There are zero monthly fees for unlimited calls & texts, only some ads to deal with. IF you don't use your number at all for a week or so, they will take it back and issue a new one. Which I like as it creates a Dead Man's switch that makes even that number and those I've used it with, effectively "amnesiatic". Or not, if I keep using it.

I've been working out of PlebLab in Austin, using the 3d printer there to create NFC tag holders that can be programmed for spending, receiving, and/or ID badges. We have local private poker houses using PMAs to enable gambling behind their Membership contractual wall despite the State not allowing gambling.

These protocols and contracts can be adapted for our own use to enable EVERY Member to become a LN OTC desk. KYC docs need only be provided once to the House, in this case TCT. Building all that from "scratch" isn't necessary, we simply need to fork their contracts to better serve our use cases.

I am working on creating and coordinating a League of these sort of Private Membership Bitcoiners Clubs. Open-sourcing the hardware, software, contracts, and OpSec for all to use and/or fork for themselves.

Please DM me so we can coordinate efforts between ourselves and our peer groups.

I would expect that my idea of combining Nostr IDs, LN Bits, and NFC wallets as access medallions into a Private Membership club ID badge/wallet interface is not an idea that's crossed your path yet...

https://eastcoastpma.com/strength-in-unity-the-advantages-of-unincorporated-associations/

Seems to me these Clubs, like yours, could also provide node, relay, and VPN services to it's Membership.

I'd love to discuss how to pull this all off with anyone else interested in these tactics. In this thread or my DMs.