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by delabay 5y ago
Nitpick: validation is the consensus process and resembles proof of stake, you don't need to buy any mining hardware to do this. Proof of coverage rewards require the approved hardware. You can make your own packet forwarder and get pa
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by delabay 5y ago
I'm happy you looked into. But I adamantly refute your point that these networks function better as charities, because the charity approach has been tried with an identical LoRaWAN network with something called The Things Network. Cove
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by delabay 5y ago
The crypto value add is early adopter rewards as well as settlement when using the network. So, you basically captured it in your post. If the initial conditions are structured properly it becomes a virtuous cycle. You can call it a pyramid
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by delabay 5y ago
Helium has built the largest contiguous wireless network using a crypto incentive model. They have started with LoRaWAN and are moving into 5G neutral hosting using CBRS spectrum. Helium effectively solves the chicken and egg problem in wir
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Dish Partners with Crypto Shop Helium to Help Expand 5G Network(bloomberg.com)
2 points by delabay 5y ago|1 comments
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by delabay 5y ago
Have you read about Helium? its an open Lorawan network. permissionless and $.00001 per 24 byte packet. coverage is great in the US & europe.
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Actility and Helium Blockchain Announce Roaming Agreement Driving Enterprise IoT(blog.helium.com)
2 points by delabay 5y ago|0 comments
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Crypto-mining IoT network to fund internet access in San José(cities-today.com)
1 points by delabay 5y ago|0 comments
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San Jose to Fund Low-Income Internet Access with Helium Crypto Mining(decrypt.co)
1 points by delabay 5y ago|0 comments
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GigSky First to Launch 5G Cellular Data on the Helium Blockchain(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by delabay 5y ago|1 comments
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by delabay 5y ago
this is probably the only valid criticism in this thread so far. But your statement is not entirely correct: - An organization different from Helium Inc. disperses keys to hardware manufacturers. - Said independent org also performs an audi
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by delabay 5y ago
There is a concept of saturation in Helium network. You can see the effect in real time as rewards are plummeting in oversubscribed areas like San Francisco. Too many nodes --> reward scale goes down --> network deployments percolate
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by delabay 5y ago
spam control and token demand. crypto places a huge value on large public burns.
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by delabay 5y ago
Onboarding fees maintain a buy-side for the network token until true network utilization catches up. The original article is an example of network utilization literally catching up. How did they arrive at $40 I'm not too sure. It seems
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by delabay 5y ago
With DIY they couldn't insure the security of participants. The temptation is too hight to create 100s of cloud miners. That said, there are 50 HW manufacturers queued up to supply. Incorporating Helium into an existing Lora framework
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by delabay 5y ago
To add to this, Semtech / Lorawan tech is literally _so cheap_. There really aren't technologies as optimal on the cost per evilness spectrum.
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by delabay 5y ago
Helium CBRS will be the largest neutral host carrier of 5g by 2023 :)
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by delabay 5y ago
Yet helium solved Lorawan coverage in spite of it all :)
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by delabay 5y ago
If your goal is to build a global network with unheard of capital efficiency in 1/10th the time as incumbents, then the crypto bullshit is means to an end. Helium will go down as one of quote unquote "actual uses for blockchain&qu
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by delabay 5y ago
Just use a Faraday cage in your home if you're worried about errant RF signals.
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by delabay 5y ago
All these devices must be FCC certified so if you don't like the products, dont buy them. There are already thousands of societal beneficial uses of lorawan.
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by delabay 5y ago
> Silly misapplication 200k operators climbing their roof to deploy beneficial coverage beg to differ
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by delabay 5y ago
They have already built the worlds largest contiguous Lorawan network (a spectrum and application woefully underserved in the united states), and the network grows at 40-50% monthly. Token distribution is inherently tied to providing provab
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by delabay 5y ago
LoRaWAN is extremely cheap (BOM and data costs) and quite frankly old tech compared to any other standard which fills the same market need. I have a water sensor that has a battery life of 10 years and $1 pays for all the data credits it e
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by delabay 5y ago
This announcement is for 900Mhz (unregulated spectrum) coverage which is woefully underserved in the united states. 900Mhz LoRaWAN is for low power IoT devices. Helium is using blockchain coordination / incentive to change this equatio
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Senet and Helium Announce LoRaWAN Network Integration Partnership(senetco.com)
68 points by delabay 5y ago|55 comments
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by delabay 5y ago
single best tip for navigating the space. the best thing you can do in crypto is cut out noisy sources, this eliminates reddit, youtube, hacker news and most news sites. crypto twitter has some high signal, but curate regularly. follow sma
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by delabay 5y ago
5G deployment would be on the range of $2-5k. $500 for the gateway and between $1500-4500 for CBRS antennas depending on the flavor. People in the community estimate you would have to move about 1tb a month at $.50/gb to break even. La
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by delabay 5y ago
The 5G play will start as a cheap means of offloading 5G data transfer to select MNO/MVNOs at a cost of $.50/gb, using the CBRS spectrum. $.50/gb is between 80% and 95% cheaper than the typical rates. The $.50/gb goes di
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by delabay 5y ago
Congrats to the Helium team. They have proved that one can use crypto incentives to build meat-space infrastructure to great success. The Lorawan network they built already has 10x growth baked in based on preorders, and the first 5G launch

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