Gristle King - A Guide to DePIN

Author: Nik

  • How Do You Assess A Blockchain + Meatspace Project?

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    How do you know if a new blockchain + meat­space (B+M) project (like Heli­um, or GEOD­Net, or Plan­et­watch) is like­ly to suc­ceed? What are the key indi­ca­tors of suc­cess or failure?  Since join­ing the Heli­um Net­work when the Hotspot count was around 7k, I’ve got­ten to see what it’s like to be part of a…

  • Gristle Crüe Community Call — Helium House

    Gristle Crüe Community Call — Helium House

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    We’re back from Heli­um House and talk­ing about what was (and WASN’T!) dis­cussed there. We’re catch­ing up on the news as the last few GC Calls have all been with guest experts, so we final­ly got a chance to talk about HIP 51–53, installing 5G units, and what’s new in the world of blockchain +…

  • Gristle Crüe Community Call — GEODNET

    Gristle Crüe Community Call — GEODNET

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    Mike Hor­ton from GEODNET joined us today to walk us through the project, from where and how to place ’em to why it’s impor­tant to have cen­time­ter accu­ra­cy. By the end of the show we had a cou­ple of Crüe mem­bers put in orders and heard the sto­ry about the mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar data trans­fer bill…

  • Gristle Crüe Community Call — 5/30/22

    Gristle Crüe Community Call — 5/30/22

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    Back to talk more about sen­sors and talk about how to pull the thread all the way through, from data col­lect­ed to the visu­al­ized out­put. Nick from UplinkEngine (owned by LSS) came on and we walked through some of the chal­lenges of the Peo­ple Counter project as well as brain­stormed some real­ly cool solu­tions with…

  • The Transition to Light Hotspots — What Happened?

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    TL;DR Despite a mas­sive change to the Net­work, at a macro lev­el we’re more or less where we were (up 3%) with the num­ber of Hotspots get­ting reward­ed for bea­con­ing, and down 4% for num­ber of Hotspots get­ting reward­ed for wit­ness­ing. The rewards them­selves are low­er, but that’s always the long term trend of any…

  • Gristle Crüe Community Call — FOAM 5/24/22

    Gristle Crüe Community Call — FOAM 5/24/22

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    Had the folks from FOAM on today to talk us through what they’re doing and how to par­tic­i­pate. A pret­ty excit­ing project, and one more excel­lent “blockchain + meat­space” option to put on your Heli­um Hotspot locations. As we move away from rely­ing total­ly on PoC/HNT rewards, find­ing projects like these ear­ly is going to…

  • An (Early) Rough Guide to Setting Up GEODNET

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    The Heli­um Net­work demon­strat­ed just how pow­er­ful tok­enized radio cov­er­age could be, and a host of oth­er com­pa­nies are rolling out wire­less net­works, from WiFi to satel­lite to cell, using token incen­tives. GEODNET is one of those companies. GEODNET allows you to set up a Hyfix Base Sta­tion in order to improve GPS accu­ra­cy. Most…

  • Advice: You’re On The Moon, You Just Don’t Know It.

    Advice: You’re On The Moon, You Just Don’t Know It.

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    Dur­ing this tran­si­tion to Light Hotspots, which has been pre­dictably uncer­tain, it hit me that many, if not most of the peo­ple who have been buy­ing Heli­um Hotspots and deploy­ing them don’t have a strong under­stand­ing of the system. It’s as if you’re on the moon and you’re con­stant­ly won­der­ing why there’s no air, or…

  • Gristle Crüe Community Call — 5/17/22

    Gristle Crüe Community Call — 5/17/22

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    Bryan Bui from Par­ley Labs came on to talk with us about sen­sors and the grow­ing space of IoT. We cov­ered sen­sors, where the oppor­tu­ni­ties are, what you might start with, and one of his first Heli­um projects.  Lost almost 19ETH, NFTs, etc. being dumb giv­ing out my 12 words.Light Hotspots still under devel­op­ment.Inter­view with…

  • How To Get Remote Access to Your Hotspot

    How To Get Remote Access to Your Hotspot

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    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…