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Category: Helium

  • Reports From The Field: Helium In The Wild — Lisbon

    Reports From The Field: Helium In The Wild — Lisbon

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    On Nov 2nd, my bride Lee & I set off to 4 cities in Europe to con­duct a Heli­um Foun­da­tion project called “Heli­um In The Wild” with three goals.  First, to see how Heli­um was being used in the wild. Obvi­ous­ly sen­sor usage isn’t huge yet, and lots of b.s. has been thrown around the inter­we­bz…

  • Crypto & IoT Black Friday Deals — 2022

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    Gath­er­ing togeth­er blockchain + meat­space as well as oth­er rel­e­vant deals here. In some cas­es the links are affil­i­ate links, so I’ll earn a small com­mis­sion if you use ’em. That seems fair to me, but you can always just Google the project and “Black Fri­day” and find ’em your­self as well. If you know…

  • What Can You Do On Solana? A Guide For The Helium Community

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    We’re switch­ing over to Solana as our Lay­er 1 (L1 for the cool kids). What does that mean for you, a Hotspot owner?  Let’s start with the impor­tant stuff: On a day to day basis, about the only dif­fer­ence you’ll see once we switch over to Solana is that the whole sys­tem will run faster.…

  • Find Out Why Helium Hasn’t Stopped Those Rotten Cheaters!

    Find Out Why Helium Hasn’t Stopped Those Rotten Cheaters!

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    Let’s go through sev­en aspects of why stop­ping cheat­ing, also known as gam­ing, on the Heli­um Net­work is so damn dif­fi­cult. I know, I know, you just want an answer or *some­one* to do *some­thing*. First, and let me be very clear: A group of tal­ent­ed peo­ple, both vol­un­teer and paid, are work­ing on com­bat­ting…

  • GKIIN Vol 1 Issue 3

    GKIIN Vol 1 Issue 3

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    The Gris­tle King Indus­try Insid­er Newslet­ter is a week­ly pub­li­ca­tion gath­er­ing all the intel and obser­va­tions we col­lect as crit­i­cal nodes in the blockchain + meatspace. -GEOD­net is look­ing for third par­ty man­u­fac­tur­ers for their min­ers.  They are aim­ing to grow to 100k min­ers world wide.  They can cur­rent­ly run on a Pi4, which is…

  • GKIIN Vol 1 Issue 2

    GKIIN Vol 1 Issue 2

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    Crit­i­cal news for indus­try pro­fes­sion­als and investors in the space. This is sec­tioned into News, Oppor­tu­ni­ties, Issues, and Unknowns. NEWS HELIUM MCC Video — Due to Light Hotspot sched­ul­ing, the MCC has paused hard­ware audits for the month of Octo­ber. I’d think of this as a “stan­dard delay”. MCC — Video 19:46 All 5G gate­ways will…

  • Helium In The Wild — Start Your Engines!

    Helium In The Wild — Start Your Engines!

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    Ready to push hard into IoT out­side of the US? Meet Heli­um In the Wild! Start­ing in Novem­ber with Solana Break­point in Lis­bon, Por­tu­gal, I’ll be head­ing out to see how Heli­um is being used in the wild. I’ll be look­ing for and shar­ing lessons, inspi­ra­tions, and inter­views with real peo­ple who are get­ting up…

  • Opportunities in the Ice Age of IoT

    Opportunities in the Ice Age of IoT

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    Heli­um ain’t the only LoRaWAN net­work out there, and it’s cer­tain­ly not the one that’s been around longest. Thomas over at Tingkart recent­ly sent me this excel­lent video from the The Things Net­work YT chan­nel called “The Sil­ver Bul­let to IoT Success”.  Spoil­er alert: The “Sil­ver Bul­let” involves hard work.  If you don’t have 20 min­utes…

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

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

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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…

  • 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.…