I think it was mostly a strategy of combining IoT hype with Blockchain hype, details be damned. Helium isn't nearly as crazy as IOTA, which was blathering on ab

I think it was mostly a strategy of combining IoT hype with Blockchain hype, details be damned. Helium isn't nearly as crazy as IOTA, which was blathering on about a starlink style network powered by trinary circuitry (no, I'm not kidding).