Category: Blockchain + Meatspace
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The Race to Usage Domination — The Gun Has Gone Off!
“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…
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Gristle Crüe Call — Anode Labs Primer
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…
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Helium HIP 70 Explained In Pictures
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.…
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An Off Grid Water Monitoring System
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…
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What Is The State Of Play In The World of DeWi?
Helium is the project that started it all, but the DeWi space is rapidly growing. With that growth come questions, mysteries, and opportunities. New players, both known and unknown, are entering the mix. As the idea of 5G starts to really get legs, one question you should constantly be asking yourself is, “What is the…
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Gristle Crüe Pollen Brief — What is Pollen?
We spent almost the entire hour covering the Pollen project, which is very similar to the Helium 5G play, using a DeWi model for CBRS radio. Pollen is a little different, though for people who’ve participated in Helium the learning curve is fairly easy. Here’s the presentation, which’ll walk you through the essential elements of…
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Weather XM — An Easy Way to Stack Your Pole
With the rise of Helium, many of us were introduced to the new concept of combining a blockchain application with actual physical real world usage and tokenizing the incentives. I call that combo blockchain + meatspace, and Helium is just the beginning. As most of us who got serious about Helium quickly realized, the name…
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How Do You Assess A Blockchain + Meatspace Project?
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…
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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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How To Turn Your Daily Drive Into Profit With Hivemapper
Mapping is big business. From 2016–2018, Uber paid Google $58 million for the use of Google’s maps. That’s $53,00 per DAY. Mapping, of course is a data flow technology, and where data flows, money goes. You and I, as “normal people” are just beginning to be able to tap into these pervasive data flows around…