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I wouldn't have spent so long talking about $HNT spot price, as it erodes the impact of the article. There are companies doing good work with share prices that

I wouldn't have spent so long talking about $HNT spot price, as it erodes the impact of the article. There are companies doing good work with share prices that aren't pumping, too. Helium is a scam regardless. I've read additional criticism where bad actors in China operate fake nodes which report as being in the middle of the ocean; using the network browser tool you can see arrays of nodes there. This is far more alarming to me as it indicates that the security model isn't real and the network is compromised.

wmf 4y ago
AFAIK they "fixed" the fake node problem by preventing people from building their own; now you have to buy them from Helium. Arguably this is semi-centralized but no one really cares.
- delabay 4y ago
  There are 30+ vendors of helium compatible hardware. Nothing is purchased "from helium".
  - wmf 4y ago
    AFAIK those vendors are officially licensed.
    - delabay 4y ago
      by a third party who gets paid about $5000 to validate the hardware/firmware/business entity of aforementioned HW manufacturer. It's not shady, as others would have you think.