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Category: Helium

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Want to Explore NFTs with Gristle King?

    Want to Explore NFTs with Gristle King?

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    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…

  • What Is HNT Crypto?

    What Is HNT Crypto?

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    So you’re into cryp­to and you just dis­cov­ered HNT? Let’s go through the basics so you can decide whether or not you want to jump into the world of Helium. First, what is HNT cryp­to? HNT stands for Heli­um Net­work Token. HNT can be trad­ed on cryp­to exchanges like Binance.us for what­ev­er you’d like (dol­lars,…

  • How Much Better Is Your Hotspot?

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    After I did the sta­tis­tics video with Matthew Patrick, I heard from @cryptofulness via Twit­ter. He reached out from Por­tu­gal to offer some help with a “t‑test imple­men­ta­tion” to test some Hotspots. If you remem­ber, a “t‑test” com­pares two sets of data and tells you whether or not there’s actu­al­ly a mean­ing­ful result. In this…

  • The People Counter Project: Beginnings

    The People Counter Project: Beginnings

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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,…

  • Government, Surveillance Technology & IoT

    Government, Surveillance Technology & IoT

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    What is the sin­gle biggest obsta­cle to the Heli­um project, and the decen­tral­iza­tion of wire­less net­works, from LoRa to WiFi to cellular?  It’s usage. It does­n’t mat­ter if you have an amaz­ing­ly robust net­work. It does­n’t mat­ter if you have com­mer­cial grade anten­nas, or nodes, or loca­tions. What mat­ters is that peo­ple use it. So, the…

  • Getting Healthy With Helium — Community Starts here

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    Are you look­ing for a cool com­mu­ni­ty project to con­tribute to that blends Heli­um with Health? I’m start­ing one right here, right now. The idea is to build a Healthy Heli­um com­mu­ni­ty where we share plans to DIY devices that mon­i­tor health. I’m think­ing the fol­low­ing:-weight-heart rate-activ­i­ty track­er (maybe just a pedome­ter)-blood sug­ar (CGM for you…

  • Helium Analytics: Data, Truth, and the Results

    Helium Analytics: Data, Truth, and the Results

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    Heli­um is a com­plex sys­tem. If you don’t under­stand it, that com­plex­i­ty can be REALLY frustrating.  There are radio fre­quen­cy con­cepts, Hotspot den­si­ty rules, dif­fer­ent anten­nas, cables, split­ters, and a con­stant­ly chang­ing Net­work. Those all com­bine to make an extra­or­di­nar­i­ly com­plex sys­tem. In any com­plex sys­tem, the big oppor­tu­ni­ty is to look for big pat­terns…

  • Why Do You Need The Helium Wallet App?

    Why Do You Need The Helium Wallet App?

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    The recent­ly-opened-for-beta-testers Heli­um Wal­let app is not the Heli­um app; that’s the first con­fus­ing thing. The Wal­let app is all about keep­ing con­trol of your 12 words in YOUR hands, and no one else’s. Out­side of the Heli­um Wal­let app, you should NEVER give your 12 (or 24) words to any­one. Per.i.od. In the world…