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Not if plated. Anyway, I can electroplate Bronze with silver anyway, so there's no real point in making a silver plated copper version. If I alloy some bronze today into casting grain, I'll post pictures. Its a really nice color, not sure that you'd want to plate it in silver anyway.

I'd really like to make things like this in Argentium, but for some reason people seem to be against non pure silver. I'll probably do that on another project and just tell people to deal with it 

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That is also an option! I'll try out a few things and post pictures to see what looks best.

Glad people are liking it. I had a lot more detail in mind, but I cant make it come out how I want it without a much larger model, or a much better printer... one of these days.

On a side note, I think I'm going to go ahead using the larger model for both silver and bronze. I figure it should be pretty affordable at least for the one that doesn't require 25 ounces of silver. I actually might cast a prototype tomorrow weather depending.

So here are some pictures. The larger model just came out of the printer, so its all ugly and needs to be cleaned up, the smaller one as well, but to a lesser extent. Just posting pictures for size comparison since we were discussing that yesterday. The smaller one is the original 1x1x1 inch cube. The Larger is 1.5x1.5x1.5 inch.

I had to make some changes due to mold constraints. The Bitcoin face will be the front, the globe with nodes the top, and the labyrinthy pattern on the back. I had originally planned on putting the labyrinthy pattern on three faces, but there would be structural problems with it on the production side if I did that, so two faces are smooth. (Maybe a place to engrave key pairs later on?) Uhhh, if I was an artist I'd say I did it intentionally to symbolically represent that the blockchain is whats going on behind the scenes. Yeah... lets go with that.

The smaller one should be around 7 ounces, the larger one, around 24 ounces. I might play around and see if I can get one to exactly 1 kilogram, but I'll need to cast these first to see how they end up first.

An additional idea that I had is to make a massive bronze statue for those that want a large Bitcoin statue, but don't want it to have a $1000 melt value. I have been working on an aluminum bronze alloy to make pan handles out of anyway, it looks pretty similar to gold color and shine wise, maybe it'll make a good statue material.

Regardless, I'll have all decisions set in stone relatively shortly.






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And cleaned up a bit, still haven't fine sanded the lines off, but this gives a little bit better look at the detail.
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We are now entering the final day for this auction, it ends in just under 24 hours of this post.

Current high bid!

Well it depends on what the ban is for, as well as how severe the actions are. You'll get a warning for spamming, but if you make 20 spam posts, you may not. Things that are more likely to get you a permanent ban are illegal activity (Bitcoin forum != Darknet forum) , posting malware, copy and paste spam, or breaking any rules with the obvious intent to avoid being caught. Warnings are given to those who mistakenly break the rules. If you are trying to cover your tracks, there is far less leniency.

The way I've kind of decided to do things, is to use pieces like statues and such to help pay for some expensive machinery I need to make coins and other things with wallets on them. As I've mentioned a few times, I'm not really content with paper wallets. I found the laser cutter I need in order to engrave into metal pieces, however its going to cost around 1 BTC. Once I have it, I'll be able to put wallets on near anything. I've already got some coins in mind, but until I can engrave their keys on them, they are on the backburner.

I'm not sure how I'd do this or if it'd be worth it, but in the future, I'd be happy to engrave encrypted keypairs onto the base of the statues. And of course, I'll try and record everything. Sometimes I'm rushed for time, like when plaster is drying on me, or when I've got 10 lbs of molten metal in one hand, and miss a few steps, but I'll get as many as possible.



Absolutely no idea at the moment. I'm not at the stage of taking orders or anything yet. If all goes well I might be able to have the first one made next weekend, and I'll have a better idea then, but I don't do preorders (I lived through the BFL days). I will be sure to keep everyone updated.

 

If I make multiple sizes, getting to 1 kilogram wouldn't be too difficult. My only concern is when you are doing large pours, its difficult to get all of the metal to solidify at the same time. If it cools even a little bit while you are still pouring metal, you get layers like this.

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I'd like to make it bigger as well, but the issue is with the laws of scaling. If I make it 2x2x2 instead of 1x1x1 we are now up to ~50 Oz of silver . I'd prefer not to use 0.1 BTC in material, because then it'd start throwing the statues out of many people's price ranges. I would potentially make it a bit bigger at 1.5x1.5x1.5 for ~20 Oz of silver.

I could always make multiple sizes available, I suppose. One for the guy who doesn't have enough BTC to throw at a 5 Kilogram solid silver statue, and another for those that do. But that'd probably annoy the hardcore collectors here who have to have a matching set of everything (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!)

regardless, I'll figure out a workable solution. Thanks for the input.

Ahoy all, so I've been playing about with the idea of a physical interpretation of the Bitcoin blockchain. This is a VERY rough model, and things will change quite a bit, as I fine tune and fix the little details that I find have ended up strangely, or as I add more detail. The top face is supposed to be the globe with the smaller circles being nodes (its lacking detail at the moment) the left side will have the Bitcoin symbol (also needs some touchup), and the remaining faces will be sort of a labyrinthy circuit board looking design, which also requires changes from the model.

For scale, the main feature is a 1x1 inch cube, and the statue should weigh in at around 7 ounces. This will all likely change quite a bit. I think I'd like to make it a bit bigger, but we'll see how all of the numbers end up when done.


https://i.imgur.com/BLUPR3t.png

There will be a limited number of pieces made, the quantity of which, I'm still deciding on. As of this moment, if anyone has any feedback, please don't hesitate to let me know. I fully intend to do a LTC and ETH version as well, but one thing at a time.

There are multiple ways to make a garlic paper wallet. Either through your wallet client, or you can use a tool like https://walletgenerator.net/?currency=Garlicoin

I'd be happy to buy it for melt value as others have said, but yeah, that is kind of a waste if its not a damaged necklace, which it doesn't seem to be. Look for similar style and length necklaces and sell it at a comparable price, fleabay is probably your best bet, even considering their 10% take.

this is from a post regarding a database breach a while ago

not relevant.

Yes it is, and while the rating from Zepher is over 2 years old, Hhampuz's feedback references "considering past dealings" which makes it applicable. Had the rating been solely for asking for additional details about an item in a vindictive way, I'd agree its an overreaction, but there is more referenced in the negative feedback which is supported by other claims.

Saying that you don't trust someone because of their behavior is completely valid.

I see three claims against you regarding dodgy business practices, so I dont think the claims are unsubstantiated. It doesn't say that you have scammed anyone as indicated by the 0 BTC risked, it just says that due to your business practices, they wouldn't advise trading with you.

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and will ship tomorrow!


From the feedback I've been getting from people, like I thought, they are pretty happy with the texture. Had a person PM me saying that they doubt they'll load theirs, and they just carried it around in their pocket over the weekend. I stopped trying to avoid the little flaws, rather I just finish them up so that the flaws are textually appealing.