Gristle Crüe Weekly Call 3–2‑22

Mar­vel (my dog) tries to steal the show with his squeaky toy. Russ drops some pen­ny-saver tips and resources, BFGNeil walks us through updates and some pret­ty cool impli­ca­tions of Light Hotspots. Still wran­gling all this in, appre­ci­ate all the sug­ges­tions for improve­ment, thank you for help­ing make this awesome!

https://vimeo.com/684024427

Time hacks

• 3:22 intro
• 4:35 BFG Neil updates, Light Hotspots
• 5:53 HIP 56 — Dis­putes on the State Chan­nels (allow­ing Dis­cov­ery Mode to come back)
• 6:23 Infor­ma­tion pub­lished say­ing that 248 mil­lion peo­ple live with­in 400m of a Hotspot
• 6:55 It’s the per­fect time to be plan­ning entry into the ser­vices mar­ket (actu­al­ly USING the Heli­um Network)
• 07:28 Dif­fi­cul­ties of cur­rent sys­tem using Helium
• 08:29 What will impact of Light Hotspot be? Pric­ing, advan­tages, disadvantages
• 10:29 BFGNeil Screen­share — Dragi­no application 
• 11:05 Ven­dors Staking
• 11:30 Price Predictions
• 13:08 Oth­er ser­vices run­ning on cur­rent “full fat” Hotspots
• 13:44 Decen­tral­ized stor­age on Hotspots or VPN Providers
• 14:38 Light Hotspot weaknesses
• 15:59 First Light Hotspot Manufacturer
• 17:27 Paid App updates — Hotspotty
• 18:27 Mov­ing to HeliumTracker.io
• 19:19 Hot­pot­ty Pricing
• 20:18 Heli­um Out­ages status.helium.com
• 20:35 Future of Hotspot Apps — Mov­ing away from Heli­um being the app on your phone. Check vocab section.
• 21:06 Mak­er = Man­u­fac­tur­er, will have their own apps
• 22:00 Hav­ing an address book on Heli­um app
• 22:19 Mul­ti­ple Wal­lets — Basic secu­ri­ty measures
• 23:06 HNT Stor­age — CLI Wal­let vs on an Exchange
• 23:54 Ledger hard­ware wal­lets (requires CLI)
• 24:42 Deeplink explanation
• 25:05 12 or 24 words should ONLY go into the Heli­um app, NOT Mak­er apps, specif­i­cal­ly Sensecap
• 26:15 Where to get Heli­um announcements?
• 26:59 Upcom­ing interviews
• 28:25 Where will we make mon­ey in the future?
• 29:22 Does HNT fol­low when Bit­coin ris­es? When will that stop?
• 30:18 What is a Con­sen­sus Group?
• 33:17 What are tax rules for Heli­um? Koinly.io
• 35:00 How much pow­er does a Hotspot use?
• 35:29 Set­ting up off grids, cable size (NOT 4 AWG). 🙂
• 36:35 Ander­son Pow­er Pole connectors
• 37:22 14 AWG cable is fine
• 38:25 Tax sem­i­nars around the nation
• 39:03 Mak­ing your own anten­na cables, what are the downsides?
• 40:37 Prac­tic­ing on small pieces 🙂
• 41:03 Can you test a cable with a nanoVNA?
• 42:47 How are you han­dling humid­i­ty issues?
• 43:45 Bob­cat & Sense­cap tem­per­a­ture updates
• 44:20 Heat sink vs Pelti­er device
• 44:50 Seal­ing vs Ven­ti­lat­ed units
• 45:35 What is Heli­um try­ing to achieve?
• 46:30 Get­ting sen­sors on the Network
• 46:53 3 Month Strategies
• 47:28 The Biggest (Heli­um) Gold Rush
• 48:45 The Per­fect Time (to launch a Heli­um business)
• 49:38 Oppor­tu­ni­ties with DeWi
• 50:49 Are there any good con­fer­ences on Helium?
• 51:58 Orga­niz­ing local Heli­um meets
• 52:45 What is an essen­tial tool list you might need for Helium?
• 54:44 Leav­ing a Map­per on to check all the Hot­pots in your area
• 55:09 WiFi Plugs
• 56:59: How are you find­ing information?
• 57:30 Cal­en­dar link requests
• 57:59 What you should see on Gris­tle Crüe website

Updates with BFG (Find more on his YouTube Channel, here.)

Light Hotspot time­lines — Firmware rolled out on cur­rent Hotspots, then Firmware acti­vat­ed so new Light Hotspots come online, then will turn all Full Hotspots to Light Hotspots.

Test­net will be open to Man­u­fac­tur­ers so they can test their own Hotspots.

Time­lines for Hotspot prices are dropping.

Light Hotspot questions

Today the retail val­ue of hotspots sold aver­ages $500. And the eBay mar­ket val­ue is $900 (down from $2,000)

Will light hotspots actu­al­ly go on the mar­ket for $150-$200 retail? If not how much?

Is there any rea­son to believe that the mar­ket val­ue of lega­cy full and new­ly man­u­fac­tured light hot spots will be dif­fer­ent from each oth­er on eBay?

What man­u­fac­tur­ers will deliv­er the most light hotspots the fastest? Bob­cat? Will man­u­fac­tur­ers give us an option to down­grade exist­ing orders for a discount?

How can we be the first to order 100 light hotspots direct from a man­u­fac­tur­er (not a scammer)?

How long will it be before light hotspots won’t sell for a pre­mi­um on eBay?

Oth­er Updates

-Hotspot­ty mov­ing to paid app, free for up to 3 HS, $10/month for 5–9, $50 for 10–19, $200 for 20+

Light Hotspot time­line: https://docs.helium.com/mine-hnt/light-hotspots/

Ques­tions from last time:

Light Hotspot Mfrs:

• Atom (South Africa only)
• Dragi­no LPS8
• Bob­cat

Heli­um Official

Out­ages — use status.helium.com

Future of Hotspot Apps

Vocab­u­lary

-Mak­ers: Hotspot mak­ers, not peo­ple mak­ing things in their basement

-deeplink — sends users direct­ly to an app (instead of a webpage)

-Onboard­ing serv­er — how onboard­ing works

How it will work: A new Heli­um Wal­let to man­age your HNT & iden­ti­ty on the Heli­um Network.

Your seed phrase only goes into that Heli­um Wallet.

Mul­ti account access.

New announce­ment chan­nels in Heli­um Discord

• main
• blockchain
• val­ida­tors

G Crüe News

Upcom­ing Interviews

• Haru­mi on finan­cial lit­er­a­cy, Fri­day at 10:30 PST
• Scott Sigel from DeWi, Tues­day the 8th at 2:30 PST
• Max at PPL Anten­na, Wednes­day the 9th at 2 pm PST
• Sean at block­joy (Val­ida­tors), Tues­day the 15th at 2:30 pm PST

NOTES FROM THE CONVO

Top-rail from fence posts.

Air tags or oth­er blue­tooth options for track­ing stolen hotspots.

Hologram.io alter­nate to Olivia Wire­less for Light Hotspot off grid sim plans

Coin­lead (tax tracking)

Mark J Kohler & Matt Soren­son in Phoenix — legal, tax seminars

Tools

• field tester (GLAMOS, WioField Tester, Mappers)
• cable tools (crimpers, cut­ters, strip­pers, etc)
• vna
• lad­ders
• map­pers
• WiFi plugs

Adding a Google Cal­en­dar to keep track of events?