Category: Gristle Crüe

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Greg G took us through the tax impli­ca­tions of run­ning a Heli­um Hotspot, and it was enlight­en­ing! Oth­er mem­bers jumped in to guide the con­vo, this was a ultra infor­ma­tive per­spec­tive on the rapid­ly evolv­ing world of earn­ing HNT (and cryp­to in gen­er­al). The one word wrap up? Chickens. ** None of this is Tax…

Dove deep into the world of DeWi Grants with the Head of the Grant pro­gram, Claris­sa Red­wine. Great chance for us to learn about what the (now) Heli­um Foun­da­tion is doing to sup­port the growth of the Net­work, and how we might help out with it. Notes & Time Hacks 0:00:00 — IntroGris­tle Crue is brain­storm­ing an…

Deep dive into 5G with Jere­my Rollinson from PirateDAO. We also talked about PirateDAO in this one, and at the end dis­cussed pur­su­ing a DeWi grant as a team. Excit­ing convo! 0:01:27 — How is 5G dif­fer­ent from Heli­um?The Amount of Data. 5G will use lots of data. Heli­um is low data IoT.Heli­um will pro­vide mobile…

We cov­er using anten­nas in trees, get­ting grants from DeWi to build Heli­um usage, using the new Heli­um Wal­let, and more. Join us next time! 0:00:00 — Anten­nas in TreesUsing a high­er dBi (6–9) to punch through the trees 0:03:27 — How do you build out a new area?Use Hotspot­ty to check local ele­va­tion changes, cross­check that…

Atten­dance is grow­ing, good to see new and vet­er­an faces! Great dis­cus­sion and Q&A about all things Heli­um, includ­ing which plat­forms to use for what, a new app option with dis­count code for G‑Crüe mem­bers, and a new Ana­lyt­ics option. Here we go! 00:00 — Intro 03:02 — Hotspotty Get Region­al Aware­nessSet­ting Commissions 8:18 — Heli­um­Track­er —…