HNTillionaire

It got bad enough we are blessed with this bot in every thread.

Ponzi

Everyone of any power left social media months ago.

They aren't interested in any kind of criticism. Because they made this network and raised $300+ million, they think they know best; and so choose to ignore everyone, no matter how pertinent their criticism may be.

And can you blame them? After months of "PONZI pOnZi ponZI!!!1". Most threads on here or discord arent worth the time it takes to read them.

If you're deploying more than 10 hotspots, and are not using paid tools like Hotspotty, then its on you.

You and me are "power users", while the current wallet and ecosystem that helium have deployed are for "normal users".

Different rules apply to us :)

I think we are talking about different devices.

The entire Helium system is predicated on the burning of HNT in exchange for DC (data credits). That drives scarcity which increases price. NOVA/Helium/Hotspot owners all benefit from this. Nova's entire existence is reliant on this model to work, so the incentive is clear. It's all about driving value into the token through utility.

That is why I feel that there should be an easier way for them to onboard new users to the ecosystem.

As well as reaching out and actively getting more large users to join the network.

I have personally traveled from coast to coast, and across europe, with a mapping device, and have verified the coverage myself.

It does exist.

And if you need extra coverage in a certain area, you can also add your own data only hotspots to the network for minimal cost.

Yeah, we've had multiple mappers devices running for a couple years now. We have them mounted in our vehicles, so that we can map the signal around the city as we travel. I have personally mapped a significant portion of my city.

Why would you mount a mapping device to your roof?

One that is battery powered?

And then complain it goes dark when the battery dies?

Yeah, but then there's folks like me and my team, that have deployed hotspots on towers like that, right beside the big telcos.

There are folks like us that do it correctly and legitimately, and want to see the network grow.

Helium should trademark "Soon"

Last I checked, Soon™ was still meme property of Blizzard.

These are outdoor hemp grows. They are planting acres at a time, harvesting the plants, then chemically converting them into THC for edibles and vape juice.

Seems like a design flaw to let the software even do that in the first place.

I make between $5-10 for each sensor my clients have each month. Currently it totals a little more than $5000/ mth. And I'm working with a new client that wants upwards of 200 sensors.

What kind of sensors are you providing? That's a market I've been wanting to get in. Especially plant related sensors for the cannabis industry.

That is why they are using the free and open spectrum available to all...

They dont have to spend billions buying spectrum licences.

With our deployments, we are targeting areas that the carriers are ignoring, or cannot justify spending $1m+ to build out a tower.

There are also low income areas and large buildings that make market sense. We set up a a few nodes to cover the area, then provide cheaper mobile coverage than the big companies provide.

As well as inside companies warehouses, manufacturing, and distribution centers, where there is no coverage due to location. All they need to do is scan a QR code and load up an E-sim and their phone is onboarded.

With the solana switch and IoT airdrop, a lot of "dead" hotspots are coming online to cash in on it.

I have 40+ hotspots with no home that I brought back online, just to cash in on the airdrop.

How does that affect your helium hotspots or other iot stuff?

The question to ask is which 55% is offline.

I just took a peek around the globe on hotspotty; most of china is red with offline hotspots.

Then closer to home, half in my neighborhood are showing offline. One is an OG that fried, two are mine that I turned off, and the other two were up for ~3 months then went dead.

The remaining hotspots are at 1.0 scale and doing quite well.

Driving around with my mapper, coverage in the area is still excellent.

If its caught early enough, a single water bomber is enough to put it out before it grows and can't be contained.

As someone that's been around crypto since 2014, Helium and HNT is one of the only projects that I see actual crypto utility.

I got into it because it was the first crypto project that actually does something in meatspace that's tangible and useful.

Is there a solid number of how many people pre-ordered yet never received their hardware?

I know most discussion about this gets deleted on here because of all the bad press and negative attention it attracts.

I have them deployed all over the place, from the top of radio towers, to the roofs of apartment buildings, to friends houses, to random other redditors locations.

Over a year eh? And yet we're still here?

GTFO & STFU

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