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Anecdotally, rooftop telecom site operators, tower owners and WISPs have been approached by "helium" miner people for several years now, they're almost universa
by walrus01 4y ago
Anecdotally, rooftop telecom site operators, tower owners and WISPs have been approached by "helium" miner people for several years now, they're almost universally laughed at as a non plausible business plan and revenue source.
- vorpalhex 4y agoSomewhere in there is a gem of a good idea. Incentivize operators of a mesh network where you can buy credits to get data on the mesh. Like I can see the concept and in it's raw form it's exciting. Helium though got way overpriced and insane with the crypto bubble. Maybe they can rectify it and turn sane? I'd love a world where all this deployed helium hardware isn't trash.
- walrus01 4y agoLoRA as a method to implement serial bridges over very narrow channels and low RSL/CINR rates in radio is fine. LoRAWAN and similar are fine. Lots of possible applications. The crypto part is what's truly bizarre. I don't know how anyone who has spent any time researching bulk-data-service plans for embedded multi-band cat1 LTE radios (a few bucks a month from Verizon or Tmobile per radio) would think that a less reliable, vastly less-covered-area "helium" thing would be something you could rely on for actual traffic to/from your equipment.
- RF_Savage 4y agoThey looked at The Things Network and figured that they could do better by paying node operators in their own funbux as an incentive to host nodes. It worked, just that the customers did not materialize.
- klinquist 4y agoI, as an airbnb owner, was approached by someone wanting to give me a "router to put in my window for IoT sensors." Didn't take me long to figure out it was Helium.