Author: Nik
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How To Get Remote Access to Your Hotspot
How do you manage your Hotspot if it’s at someone else’s location? Whether there’s a formal “Host Agreement” or it’s your Aunt Sally, having the ability to remote in to your Hotspot’s dashboard and do anything from a quick check on the latest transactions all the way to a reset or reboot, it’s nice to…
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Gristle Crüe Community Call — 5/11/22
This week we talked about sensors, running an OUI, the upcoming GK NFT launch, ideas for what to build and the future of Helium, 5G and more. This week’s contributions were awesome, as Crüe members brought up some excellent points on use cases and data streams as well as helping each other. Rock on team! 0:00:00…
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Want to Explore NFTs with Gristle King?
When I bought my first NFT, the whole thing was complicated. It still is, and it’s risky. Most NFTs are art, so the value is in the eye of the beholder (and the market). While that means you can make a lucky million, you can also be left holding a bunch of NFTs that were…
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Gristle Crüe Community Call 5/5/22 w/Nick from LSS
Nick Hough from Lake Street Software came on this week’s Gristle Crüe call to talk about the IoT business he’s building on Helium, from how he finds customers to how products are quickly improved. The IoT space is still new and challenging, so hearing from the “front lines” like this can be super helpful! Here’s…
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What Is HNT Crypto?
So you’re into crypto and you just discovered HNT? Let’s go through the basics so you can decide whether or not you want to jump into the world of Helium. First, what is HNT crypto? HNT stands for Helium Network Token. HNT can be traded on crypto exchanges like Binance.us for whatever you’d like (dollars,…
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How Much Better Is Your Hotspot?
After I did the statistics video with Matthew Patrick, I heard from @cryptofulness via Twitter. He reached out from Portugal to offer some help with a “t‑test implementation” to test some Hotspots. If you remember, a “t‑test” compares two sets of data and tells you whether or not there’s actually a meaningful result. In this…
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The People Counter Project: Beginnings
In less than 2 years, a group of strangers has managed to deploy 700,000+ Helium Hotspots worldwide. We’ve got the worlds largest contiguous wireless network built. So, uh, what do we do with it? I got into Helium because I thought it could be useful to track paragliders back in September of 2020. Like many people,…
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Government, Surveillance Technology & IoT
What is the single biggest obstacle to the Helium project, and the decentralization of wireless networks, from LoRa to WiFi to cellular? It’s usage. It doesn’t matter if you have an amazingly robust network. It doesn’t matter if you have commercial grade antennas, or nodes, or locations. What matters is that people use it. So, the…
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Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 4/19/22 — Mat Sorenson
An in depth discussion on crypto taxes with attorney Mat Sorenson. Mat laid out an excellent way to think about structuring your business & mining efforts when it comes to taxes. All Gristle Crüe calls are available to all members, whenever you join. TIME HACKS 0:00:00 — IntroMat Sorenson, Tax and Crypto Expert 0:01:03 — Mat’s…
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Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 4/12/22
We had planned to do another cryptocurrency/tax call this week with Mat Sorenson but pushed a week due to scheduling conflicts. That didn’t stop us from scratching a few tax itches, but we spent more time on the privacy issues with deploying sensors. 0:00:00 — IntroNo Matt this week, taxes next week.You have an off…