Gristle King - A Guide to DePIN

Category: Application

  • The Race to Usage Domination — The Gun Has Gone Off!

    The Race to Usage Domination — The Gun Has Gone Off!

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    Nik
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    “Inno­vate, be relent­less, and make the net­work usage grow” says Robert Putt, an ear­ly Heli­um adopter and LoRaWAN expert. Rob wrote one of the most use­ful arti­cles on get­ting your Hotspot off relay (back when that was an issue) and has spent years in the LoRaWAN space. He’s now work­ing with the well known BFGNeil…

  • An Off Grid Water Monitoring System

    An Off Grid Water Monitoring System

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    Nik
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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…

  • The People Counter Project: Beginnings

    The People Counter Project: Beginnings

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    Nik
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    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,…

  • A Rough Guide To Helium Hotspot Placement

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    Nik
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    This is writ­ten for folks curi­ous about opti­miz­ing a Heli­um Hotspot placement.  Most start with their anten­na, which is (almost com­plete­ly) the wrong approach for max­i­miz­ing earn­ings. The only way you could make a less effi­cient improve­ment at the start is to focus on what cables to buy.  There are four fun­da­men­tal aspects of an opti­mal…