The 3D industry needs someone to figure out how to make the printing process itself faster, not the slicing.  I don't care if someone can make slicing take less than 1 second if the print itself takes hours.

If you have used a 3D printer before, you would know that slicing models for most users takes a second.  There's no need to distribute that job across a blockchain.

weird, it doesn't seem to like the BTC address I gave it.  I'll try another.

Thanks, I'll have a look!

I want to learn more about tracing transactions, and wanted to see what I can find about BTC I purchased on GDAX and transferred to Cryptobridge.  Using blockchain.info, it's easy enough to take my Cryptobridge deposit address as a starting point (even though I should probably use my GDAX address).  I can see the transaction from GDAX to CB.  Then I see another transaction from CB to two other addresses.  I assume these are either two trades, or a single trade with the balance getting transferred back to myself.  How do I use these addresses to figure out what altcoin was purchased, if any, on CB?   

Still doesn't justify applying blockchain to it.  I also find it interesting that no one has posted a rebuttal to my previous statements about the feasibility or usefulness of this project.

I'm with you there, buddy.  I've lost $20k according to Delta.

I totally agree.  In addition, you need to have a plan that makes sense (i.e. a good whitepaper) that outlines exactly what the goals of your project are, a timeline for releases, and a description of your team.  If you're trying to do this to make money, no one is going to invest if it smells like a get-rich-quick scheme.

by all means, I would avoid yobit!

This must have been a joke, and we're all still posting in this thread.   

Once the blockchain is capable of distributing the physical printing of parts so that it doesn't take so damn long, then *that* would get a lot of people excited. 

I'll just say this -- I bought a cloud mining contract and I am on track to lose a lot of money.

I doubt it.  I would expect them to release APIs to allow others to easily leverage their blockchain.  So I *think* it would be closer to competing with Ethereum, Infinex, Stratis, etc.

That's not what I'm asking.  I believe it would be great to invest in.  I just don't understand what the investment vehicle is.  It sounds like it's the token, but in the KYC (or is it CYA?) clause it explicitly states that the token is not an investment.  Are those just words, i.e. can you still trade the token in the exchanges?  If so, then I suppose that the token is indeed the investment vehicle.

Just because it can be done, doesn't mean that it should be done.

I think 3D printing is still in the ooh-aah phase so it seems like marrying the two is going to be big.  For me, I don't understand the real use case or utility behind this project.  I'm waiting for someone to convince me otherwise. 

As a 3D printer user, I'm not seeing a use case for this.  For the hobby to prosumer users that run something like Cura or Simplifi3D, slicing takes a second or two.  For more complicated machines like Markforged, slicing takes a fair bit of time, but their slicer is limited to their cloud service anyway.  What actual commercial products need parallelized cloud slicing, and why is blockchain required for this, vs. distributed computing-only?

Nice job!  This was really helpful.  I might end up doing something similar.

I'm looking for help with understanding things here.  I want to invest in the platform, but when registering for the token sale, it's very clear that the Bob Tokens are not considered securities and are not an investment.  They are to be used on the platform.  I don't necessarily want to use the platform itself.  Is there not really an investment opportunity here?  Please help clarify this for me. 

ok, I really like this idea and I think it does solve a modern, real-world problem.  I'm going to have to look into this one!