Gristle King - A Guide to DePIN

Author: Nik

  • The Gristle King Industry Insider Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1.

    The Gristle King Industry Insider Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1.

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    This is the inau­gur­al issue of the GKIIN (Gris­tle King Indus­try Insid­er Newslet­ter), which is writ­ten and researched by myself, Nik Hawks, and my good friend Max Gold, own­er over at PPL Anten­na and one of the most dogged inves­ti­ga­tors into these projects you’ll find. We’ll be writ­ing and releas­ing these on a week­ly basis.…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — LoneStar Tracking

    Gristle Crüe Call — LoneStar Tracking

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    Excit­ed to see some new faces this week and to go wide on what run­ning a telem­at­ics com­pa­ny using Heli­um looks like. Very cool run­down from Thomas Rem­mert from Lon­eS­tar on all the things they’re doing, from tiny ear tags on cat­tle to track­ing vehi­cles to start­ing to use satel­lite backhaul.  Hotspot relo­ca­tion https://futurenetworks.host/relocation-service/ Thomas…

  • The Explosion of Blockchain + Meatspace

    The Explosion of Blockchain + Meatspace

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    At the recent TIPIN Sum­mit put on by Lat­tice Cap­i­tal, it became appar­ent that blockchain + meat­space projects are about to hit the main­stream of the cryptogalaxy. With pan­els fea­tur­ing every­one from Heli­um, the largest and most suc­cess­ful play­er in the space, to Anode Labs announc­ing the launch of the React Net­work (tok­eniz­ing Vir­tu­al Pow­er…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Anode Labs Primer

    Gristle Crüe Call — Anode Labs Primer

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    This week we had Evan from Anode­Labs on to walk us through how Anode is going to approach a blockchain + meat­space project deal­ing with the ener­gy grid, decar­boniza­tion, and dis­trib­uted ener­gy sys­tems. This may set the record for most infor­ma­tion in the least amount of time. Here are my notes: Evan Caron is based out of…

  • Helium HIP 70 Explained In Pictures

    Helium HIP 70 Explained In Pictures

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    HIP 70 is sim­ple. We (the Heli­um Com­mu­ni­ty) are mov­ing from doing every­thing our­selves to farm­ing out a few things to experts. Here’s what it looks like. Let’s start with the cur­rent sys­tem. Every action on one blockchain that tries to do every­thing and is get­ting bogged down: Yes, I know Val­ida­tors aren’t in that graph­ic.…

  • An Off Grid Water Monitoring System

    An Off Grid Water Monitoring System

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    I got into Heli­um to deploy and use a LoRa Wide Area Net­work (you can read about that here). Along with every­one else, I then got caught up in the wild gold rush of ’20-’21, deploy­ing hotspots and earn­ing HNT, help­ing clients do the same, and occa­sion­al­ly just look­ing around and won­der­ing at the mad­ness…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Flash Flood Project, Dashboards, 5G

    Gristle Crüe Call — Flash Flood Project, Dashboards, 5G

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    This week we cov­ered a TON of top­ics, from Eric’s flash flood warn­ing project in New Mex­i­co to Nick­’s “Dash­board Epiphany” after talk­ing with Thomas from Tingkart. We hit 5G news, Pol­len’s odd posi­tion on phys­i­cal gam­ing, Heli­um Hotspot dash­boards, and events sur­round­ing the upcom­ing Heli­um House in New York. -$1,500 sen­sor -recep­tion­ist in CBL Indus­tries…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — 5G, FUD, Water Sensors

    Gristle Crüe Call — 5G, FUD, Water Sensors

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    Jumped right into 5G Eco­nom­ics today (not much is known, still Wild West), then went into deal­ing with FUD. From there we flowed into the water lev­el mon­i­tor­ing & flash flood talk, maybe there’s a grant there. Upcom­ing pro­posed talks were for a WISP to talk us through set­ting up advanced back­haul, hav­ing a hydrol­o­gist…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Open Discussion

    Gristle Crüe Call — Open Discussion

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    Open call today with no par­tic­u­lar agen­da. Was good to just check in with the Crüe. We talked about the MOBILE price, doing prop­er tax plan­ning (unlike the HNT fias­co many of us went through), and some cool options for blend­ing Heli­um & real estate. Rock ‘n roll! Chat Tran­script: How are you remote man­ag­ing your…

  • Gristle Crüe — Tingkart Presentation

    Gristle Crüe — Tingkart Presentation

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    Amaz­ing pre­sen­ta­tion of a tool we’ve all been hop­ing some­one would build; a way to eas­i­ly use the Heli­um Net­work. I saw this tool a while back on Heli­um Hacks Hap­py Hour, and it’s pro­gressed nice­ly since then.  Chat Transcript 09:11:13 From Michael Corum : He is writ­ing all this 09:12:09 From Rus­sell Thomas : Do…