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by delabay 4y ago
Oh boy, where to start with all the problems in this post. * you can buy helium hotspots for $100 now, on par with other lora gateways * " vast majority of the income of the project" is vague and incorrect. The hotspot OEMs (of wh
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by delabay 4y ago
Helium has a competitive Lora network at 100x less cost, in western Europe and US. Ducks
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by delabay 4y ago
Helium charges 0.00001$ per packet (about 24 bytes) using Lora protocol. But it's associated with crypto so people hate it. It also undercuts everything by a factor of 100x and is ubiquitous in US and western Europe.
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by delabay 4y ago
didn't feel in san mateo either
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by delabay 4y ago
related: Tether, biggest stablecoin, cuts its commercial paper holdings to zero( https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/tether-worlds-biggest-stable... ) Tether now only holds US treasury assets.
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by delabay 4y ago
Still beats putting it in a Lebanese bank
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by delabay 4y ago
Using a bank in Lebanon is the same as losing your life savings
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by delabay 4y ago
Not your keys etc. Picture this. You're in Lebanon circa 2020. You face a guaranteed loss of 90%+ if kept in traditionally Lebanese system. Or you can self custody a usd stablecoin. Which do you choose?
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by delabay 4y ago
Nah, bad example. Not ubiquitous enough. Nice try
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by 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.
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by delabay 4y ago
Sounds like your issue is with capitalism and not helium
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by delabay 4y ago
There are 30+ vendors of helium compatible hardware. Nothing is purchased "from helium".
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by delabay 4y ago
The beauty of helium is that it didn't exist, then two years later, it exists everywhere, covering most of the western world. People don't "agree" with how it got there: guess what, all other attempts to do the same have
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by delabay 4y ago
Too much friction. Reminds me of the classic HN refrain: why use Netflix when I could just setup a RAID storage server and my own linux-based media platform?
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by delabay 4y ago
Nova makes no money in the sale of hotspots.
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by delabay 4y ago
Check out helium network. Crazy LoRaWAN density in LA.
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by delabay 4y ago
In this life you can be selfish, stupid or a burden. Selfishness creates the most value in the world.
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by delabay 4y ago
What a ridiculous statement to make and perfectly exemplifies the absurdity of HN comment section.
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by delabay 4y ago
> Asking for clarification on battery life means I'm not their target demo? Precisely
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Easier IoT Deployments with LoraWan and Helium(windley.com)
2 points by delabay 5y ago|0 comments
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by delabay 5y ago
About usage, this tech has historically been used for industrial enterprise applications, like sensors, valves, environmental data. A large scale network has never been available to individuals so there aren't many consumer facing appl
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by delabay 5y ago
All Lora traffic is encrypted from origin to intended end server. Not to mention the protocol is for low power long range usage.
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by delabay 5y ago
The 40M figure is pure data from roaming partners and end usage. Here's a tweet https://twitter.com/DeWiGoSite/status/1508492610435903490?t=... You can measure this yourself at etl.dewi.org
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by delabay 5y ago
All great questions. Helium mining is unique in that operational expense is close to zero, once setup, it's actually more trouble than it's worth to turn off. In many cases, turning off literally means climbing a tower. Power and
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by delabay 5y ago
Helium reached a scale orders of magnitude larger in 1/5th the time. As TTN is a community effort it can't really fail in a traditional sense, but it has been lapped several times over at this point.
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by delabay 5y ago
Yes, it's an economic mechanism to build wireless networks. There are definitely externalities as you say. However what I find amazing is they successful built the network when all other traditional means of doing so had failed. See th
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by delabay 5y ago
Lora is for low data rates, such as sensors, location trackers, IoT applications. If your town has a Starbucks, you most likely have coverage right now. The network gets global utilization processing about 40M packets a day. Not big in term
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by delabay 5y ago
What's OPs view of helium network? It basically solved the issue of network deployment for LoRaWAN. It covers the vast majority of American population centers, Western Europe, and soon south america and APAC.
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by delabay 5y ago
> both take more time and cost more money than PayPal, credit/debit, ACH, etc. Stopped paying attention here. So, so..so incorrect.
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by delabay 5y ago
I have all the associated equipment for every US-based CBRS project. It all functions. My phone roams onto it, the eSIM / physical SIM works. The blockchain and various business agreements need to catch up for the dream to be realized.

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