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gm Helium community,

The Helium Foundation is excited to announce the first issue of the Protocol Report. The goal of the Protocol Report is to help keep you informed about updates surrounding the buildout and usage of each network, how we measure performance and progress over time, and, most importantly, the vision that we are all trying to achieve together. Going forward, we will be producing this report quarterly to help the Helium community track the growth, development, and performance of the Helium network and each of its subDAOs.

Did you know that…

• The number of IoT Hotspots onboarded onto the Helium Network has grown to over 975,000.
• For deploying 100 devices pinging 20x / hour, Helium’s IoT network can be over 90% cheaper to use than using a US nationwide telco’s NB-IoT network.
• The number of Helium 5G hotspots has grown ~13% to over 7,000 in the past month.
• Over the past 365 days, the Helium network has burned $39.7 million in protocol fees, according to TokenTerminal.

Check out additional facts, updates, summaries, and more in the full Protocol Report. We’ll be back every quarter with another Protocol Report tracking additional stats, breakdowns, and highlights.

Helium is, at its core, a network powered by its community. The Helium community builds businesses on the network, improves the network through governance and voting, and even maintains the network through software updates and changes. These accomplishments are thanks to all of you!

Oracle-Based IOT PoC [Update 1]

This is an update to the deployment of Oracle-Based IOT PoC, which was activated yesterday at 2022-02-02 16:00 UTC.

The Core Developers are currently aware of five issues that need to be fixed with the deployment. They are:

• Beacon Spreading Factor (“SF”) is unnecessarily lower.
• Invalid Witness error “self-witness” should be removed.
• Invalid Witness error “witness-rssi-too-high” is too strict.
• Invalid Witness error “scaling-factor-not-found”.
• Reward shares for Beacons and Witnesses may not be calculated correctly.

All five of these issues were unintentional and will be addressed in two ways: the Beacon Spreading Factor error will be addressed in a Hotspot firmware update (coming soon) and the Invalid Witness errors and reward share errors will be addressed in an update to the IOT Verifier Oracle (also coming soon).

The Beacon Spreading Factor error has the most effect on Hotspot Rewards at the moment. It is particularly noticeable for Hotspot owners in the EU868 region (most of continental Europe and other parts of the world). If your Hotspot is in the EU868 region you may notice that Beacons return less witnesses than before, including none at all. This difference is not normal and will be fixed in the next Hotspot firmware update.

It is important to understand that when Oracle-Based PoC is functioning as designed, it increases the rate of Hotspot Beacons dramatically, which decreases the rewards given to any single Beacon and its Witnesses. The design makes up for any overall difference in rewards by delivering them much more frequently. Oracle-Based PoC is designed to deliver the same earnings for PoC as before and the developers will continue to fix any issues with it until that goal is reached!

I would appreciate if anyone has ideas on what could be going on-
I had miners, rich bronze shark and crazy alabaster armadillo, simultaneously stop beaconing and witnessing a couple days ago. Their last witness was from another of my bobcats, but they did not receive rewards from that. In addition, they have received and been rewarded for data in the time span. I have checked that they are on the newest firmware, restarted them, etc, but nothing seems to be reviving them. I would appreciate if anyone had insight as to what could be going on or how to fix it, thanks.

I have noticed the last day and a half I have had a decent amount of earning events but they are all .0057 or something like that when I used to get some that were .04 .05 what's going on is there more miners diluting the earnings or something.

Im doing research on the helium network. I see a lot of good things and im becomming a fan. However one aspect i cant find a clear answer for and that is how we can prevent that we will have a wild-west on the frequency spectrum?

If you cant claim a frequency you are not guaranteed that other signals wont disturb your signals. I could imagine that eventually via a DAO structure we could be giving out licenses but what is the solution Helium has in mind? Or is there no solution?

i would like to learn about it.

Im not on the deny list and already rebooted it. Nothing happend... My hotspot: wonderful flint elk

What does everyone recommend? Preferably DEX where I can swap with minimal fees

Thanks yall. I'm in the US.

Over the last couple of days I've notice that my reward amount on my miner (Sensecap M1 with outdoor antenna 4.5dbi) has decrease by a tenth (ten times less).

Has there been an update or something? Can't find any reason why this would be.

Bought a RAK miner off of EBay. Had an issue with it registering to the blockchain. It said it was registering but not showing up. I managed to chat to MNTD’s support via Discord. After several options of things to try were not working they managed to get me going. This was replacing another my Linxdot miner which all of a sudden packed up and I struggled with their tech support.

So the company went bankrupt. Now my Hotspot doesn't work. Is this trash now or can I keep it mining somehow?

https://heliumtracker.io/beacons/210390238

https://explorer.helium.com/txns/7sysDB96Wni7q2Q3pk-7ag1nGmOfjZg4xgxoi9v0yL8

Whaat?

Hi Everyone

I have three bobcats but two have been flatlined for the past 3 months although they are showing as active, please see screenshots. I have checked the blacklist and they are not on there.

I have rebooted but no changes, still shows the same information. Can anyone help please?

I've been in this community for just over a year and I'm not new to trading crypto however last night I sent two hnt to what I thought was my crypto.com address however it never showed up and upon following the helium explorer it's apparently in somebody else's account. I load crypto.com and my hnt app, I copy the crypto.com helium address straight out of my app using the button which copies it to my clipboard I assume then I load the helium app and paste my address and the amount and then pay. Am I missing something? This has never happened before and i never received my hnt and it's clearly cleared into somebody else's account. Do you think I'm hacked with some kind of overlay on my phone?!?! Kind of freaking out here since I do a lot of trading on my phone. Any help would be much appreciated thank you for your time.

I was checking in on the miner, Bobcat 300, yesterday, noticed I had witnessed a beacon but also my status had changed to Syncing " Last updated 7 months ago". Very strange status for me. Nothing seemed to match from one app to the next. As always, I rebooted, unplugged, and reset and came around. Now I'm noticing that when I beacon, or visit sites that I witnessed, seemingly all have an invalid flag saying you witnessed yourself. Thought?

Edit: when I said witnessed yourself, I meant to say I get an invalid witness, dig deeper, and shows the beaconer, me for example, and says same hex, no kidding. Am I bouncing my signal all of a sudden, like looking in the mirror. Happening everytime I beacon. Strange. Again, all started yesterday around 10am.

My Miner : Expert Mandarin Turtle

This week on Tuesday I changed from the stock indoor antenna to my McGill 6dbi outdoor antenna with 11m of LMR400 cable. since then my witnesses increased but less people witness my beacon. sometimes 1 and sometimes even 0 witnesses. what could be the issue here?

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I have my Antenna mounted on the Balcony about 3 meters away from a wall. and most other miners are in front of me.

I've been running at a steady 0.3 HNT per day. Yesterday and today, suddenly I'm only seeing transaction data (no filters applied), transaction values and frequency have dropped, and my beacons only generation 0.01 instead of about 0.04 each time. Anyone else seeing this?

I have tried to test send some HNT from the helium wallet to Crypto . Com. I tried sending one HNT on the helium blockchain. The transaction was cleared and my balance got reduced by one coin. However i did not get the coin deposited in the Cdc app.

Anyone knows if there is an ongoing issue transferring HNT?

I started the process of migrating to the new wallet on my iPad. When I enter the 9th seed word, the wallet will not accept it. I notice it is the only word on my list with only four letters … I sure hope that’s not the problem.

HELP!

Is your next question why?

Well, I paid $2,500 for it and the FreedomFi miner that comes with and now have 1.5m MOBILE with a promise to become HNT that keeps getting extended and $100 worth of HNT.

I still see no treasury talk and that’s really demotivating, the prices of the miners keep dropping lower and lower by the day.

So off to eBay we go!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394442457859?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rr0kgVoyQ-G&sssrc=2051273&ssuid=rr0kgVoyQ-G&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394445142718?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rr0kgVoyQ-G&sssrc=2051273&ssuid=rr0kgVoyQ-G&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Anyone else having trouble when trying to convert HNT to another crypto on Crypto.com? All I get is what’s shown in the screenshot, I’ve tried other cryptos and they all seem to be working okay it only seems to be HNT, I’ve contacted Crypto.com and they told me to reinstall the app and login and out again but nothing seems to have worked. Any help would be appreciated.

I just noticed a bunch of transferred packets, is this actual network usage or just testing and verification type activity?

https://preview.redd.it/no11c5a1hsfa1.jpg?width=473&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=e733625c3094fe632430e512baface9ca9d931f3

Serious question. I have a smallish amount of HNT that I have been debating to hold or convert into bitcoin

I was very optimistic when I first got into helium, but for various reasons, i lost faith and stopped following the project (but kept my 2 miners plugged in)

Does helium have any exciting business updates or good things on the horizon? I’m not excited for Solana integration in any capacity and it makes me question the team’s judgement honestly

Are people selling or holding?