Gristle Crüe Call — Abhay from Helium Foundation

Abhay Kumar, CEO of the Heli­um Foun­da­tion, jumped on the Gris­tle Crüe call today to walk us through both his jour­ney, the chal­lenges ahead, and some of the things he thinks are most excit­ing com­ing down the pipe. Very cool to get to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth!

10:01:15 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Yo!
10:01:51 From Travis L. Teague : yo!
10:02:01 From Eric Jonas : Howdy folks.
10:02:11 From 619OTA : wen geod­net heli­um part­ner­ship ?
10:02:51 From 619OTA : ya. tbh. geod­net needs some bet­ter mar­ket­ing. peo­ple hear space weath­er and just laugh
10:03:05 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Work­ing on it
10:03:47 From alvaro­gra­cia : Hi all! Hey Nik, be care­ful with elec­tric­i­ty man!
10:04:57 From 619OTA : Aussies pret­ty pissed at heli­um from what I hear
10:06:07 From 619OTA : lol mon­key hair
10:14:52 From Travis L. Teague : lim­it­ed edi­tion bags at Inter­na­tion­als!
10:16:12 From Jay M. : I miss mylar
10:20:04 From 619OTA : wen SD meet up ?
10:21:28 From 619OTA : ill take some wine track­ers for test­ing
10:21:51 From 619OTA : my sis­ter makes her own wine
10:22:18 From Michael Corum : Base­ment is great — cool, dark
10:22:23 From 619OTA : next meet up
10:22:29 From Eric Jonas : There are col­lec­tors that buy, store and resell.
10:22:50 From Michael Corum : We buy, store, and drink
10:23:04 From Michael Corum : some­times we gift If need­ed
10:23:34 From Abhay Kumar : https://twitter.com/web3princess/status/1592999789771509760 baxus
10:23:43 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Can be used for tea (puri­ty)
10:24:07 From 619OTA : Break­point 2022: Loca­tion Track­ing With Heli­um and Solana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckcPH7CBreI
10:24:13 From Nik Hawks : Thanks!
10:24:17 From 619OTA : think that’s the one
10:25:51 From 619OTA : ~6:30 into that video
10:27:27 From 619OTA : well. rede­nom­i­na­tion kin­da
10:27:51 From Max Gold : Well we’ve had HIPs that did­nt pass. They just nev­er got to a vote
10:28:29 From Max Gold : The com­mu­ni­ty is so good at dis­cussing HIPs that only the ones that will pass end up mak­ing it to a vote
10:31:16 From Michael Corum : That’s fun­ny — I like it
10:31:38 From Michael Corum : true
10:33:01 From Michael Corum : I was going to ask why not Binance Smart Chain
10:33:31 From Michael Corum : I know the answer — no wor­ries
10:38:44 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Smart Island Ibiza!!! @bo ?
10:39:27 From Alan Stew­art : ??
10:40:00 From Alan Stew­art : Hi Michael ignore that direct mes­sage lol
10:41:54 From Eric Jonas : Geod­net is pay­ing extra rewards for installs in India rn aren’t they?
10:42:03 From Nik Hawks : yes
10:42:19 From Max Gold : I have a solana relat­ed ques­tion
10:42:25 From Max Gold : Please don’t hate me
10:43:09 From Michael Corum : You men­tioned gen­er­al things you are excit­ed about — one of those was find­ing the 10 to 20 projects that can dri­ve a step change. Are there any spe­cif­ic projects that you think could do this?
10:43:18 From Michael Corum : Do you think there will be some form of incen­tives to help peo­ple put the box­es into rur­al areas?
10:43:19 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Abhay, there was an amaz­ing booth at Smart City from India! They were so cool and inspir­ing!
10:43:35 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Amir said that there was a com­mit­ment to aggres­sive­ly find­ing sig­nif­i­cant medi­um-large cus­tomers using the IOT net­work — what are the plans for that?
10:44:03 From Michael Corum : I guess my ques­tions were being sent only to one per­son by acci­dent
10:44:38 From Michael Corum : then BSC!
10:45:27 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Any word on the deploy­ment of the IOT token?
10:47:19 From Russ : Please explain the roles of Nova Labs and Heli­um Foun­da­tion
10:48:59 From Michael Corum : Yes
10:53:12 From Michael Corum : He cut out — how to spell that?
10:54:20 From Michael Corum : Try­ing — can’t get peo­ple to bite — only 2 so far
10:54:28 From 619OTA : make off grid­ding fun again
10:54:40 From Michael Corum : if you can only promise them $10 a year — they won’t go
10:54:47 From Jay M. : got­ta run. thanks for your time, Abhay.
10:55:29 From Russ : The spoofers will move to rur­al areas.
10:59:23 From Travis L. Teague : Thank you, Nik and Lee, for host­ing, and thank you, Abhay, for being on the show today. Take care, folks!
10:59:35 From Michael Corum : anoth­er great crue call
10:59:36 From Nik Hawks : Psy­ched! Lat­er Trav!
11:00:16 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Thanks Abhay, appre­ci­ate you!
11:00:20 From Michael Corum : Thanks — lat­er
11:00:30 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Thank you