Max Gold came on today to talk about what to look for with various 5G DeWi projects as far as incentives, and how to think about your approach to any of these TIPIN projects. A very sharp operator, it’s always good to get his perspective on these.
CHAT NOTES
10:02:30 From 619OTA : $80 for 4gb version. Rakwireless
10:02:47 From Travis L. Teague : what is the latency on it?
10:04:00 From Travis L. Teague : yeah, not bad!
10:07:46 From 619OTA : im confused on this whole hip74 too.
10:10:24 From Nik Hawks : Mapping showing signal strength to be lowest from the Helium 5G & Pollen units vs telco.
10:12:43 From Eric Jonas : I gotta bounce. I feel like hell. Got a savage cold.
10:12:53 From Nik Hawks : Rgr. Lates!
10:12:54 From Travis L. Teague : feel better
10:13:01 From Eric Jonas : ty
10:15:57 From Nik Hawks : AAA baseball team + access to high points
10:18:05 From Russ : I have not invested in 5g because I felt wifi is a better indoor if security can be assured. Repeaters can also bring the signal indoors for just upfront cost.
10:18:12 From Michael Corum : Helium needs incentives for hotspots in under-served areas — rural
10:18:39 From Russ : Outdoors I think 5G has promise in fringe areas
10:21:47 From Lee (Team Gristle King) : Fascinating, thanks for chatting Max ?
10:29:40 From Russ : I think it’s been reported that the founders of helium kept 60% of the tokens. Do we know about the mobile tokens kept by founders?
10:32:03 From Nik Hawks : HST vs HNT
10:32:36 From Nik Hawks : Staking
10:33:44 From Michael Corum : First I’ve heard of HST
10:33:47 From Nik Hawks : HST = Helium Security Token
10:34:33 From Nik Hawks : Early investors in Helium (when they switched to blockchain model), anyone who holds HST gets paid in HNT.
10:36:52 From Nik Hawks : On 5G, founders get zero. 15 billion MOBILE grant (6% of total MOBILE) given to Nova to develop 5G. Nova missed their deadline to hit dev goals, so gave back 2.5 billion MOBILE to Helium Foundation.
10:37:40 From Nik Hawks : Kevin suggests a deep dive on the positive side of Helium.
10:39:33 From Michael Corum : That’s how companies fail
10:39:51 From Nik Hawks : The crypto attitude: “It’s there if anyone wants to see it.” Not the greatest marketing plan.
10:40:01 From Nik Hawks : (Crypto project marketing attitude)
10:40:20 From Michael Corum : Agree — bad marketing — lots of stories in history of superior technology dying because of poor marketing
10:45:03 From 619OTA : not only bad marketing. but idk what sensors work on the network and what ones don’t.
10:46:06 From Kevin Weidemann : Oh, crap. I have 5 validators
10:46:31 From Nik Hawks : There’s no good reason for a project to stake UNLESS you have a ton of the tokens in a lockup period.
10:49:12 From Kevin Weidemann : Celsius. ?
10:49:44 From Kevin Weidemann : To be fair, I made a shit-ton on Celsius for 4 years
10:49:54 From Michael Corum : Funny thing is I was in BlockFi because I thought it was one of the safer centralized ones — yet my DRIP (super-dangerous defi) has given me 20X returns
10:51:04 From Michael Corum : Now that the DRIP token is down to pennies, it’s only paying me $65 a day (yes, a day) — it was crazy back when the token was over $100
10:51:30 From Kevin Weidemann : Can we talk about the depressing price of HNT?
10:51:57 From Michael Corum : Interesting — loss harvest to pay back self-employment tax
10:52:21 From Nik Hawks : Pay attention to capital gains and what’s in a business that has self-employment tax.
10:53:32 From ElonTusk : Crue-tax channel
10:53:48 From Michael Corum : Staying the course
10:55:16 From Michael Corum : Soon will be time to buy — another few months
10:55:28 From ElonTusk : Not now?
10:55:29 From Michael Corum : learning through loss
10:55:49 From Michael Corum : DCA in now but with small amounts
10:55:50 From Lee (Team Gristle King) : This is awesome everybody, so enjoy these convos.
10:57:01 From Michael Corum : Ha Ha Ha
10:57:34 From Lee (Team Gristle King) : This is just all beginning
10:57:43 From Michael Corum : If we could figure out how to incent putting hotspots out in the rural areas, it will be huge
10:58:06 From Nik Hawks : Agree, Mike.
10:58:25 From Nik Hawks : If someone builds a better incentive structure we’ll see a big change.
10:58:38 From Lee (Team Gristle King) : yep
10:59:01 From Michael Corum : I’m working on bartering approaches
10:59:47 From Travis L. Teague : thanks, folks!
10:59:51 From Lee (Team Gristle King) : Next week, yes, I’m in.
10:59:52 From Michael Corum : Another great call
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