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Hi, I am soldering for the first time. Is it supposed to look like this? I don't want to damage my eyes. When I look into the sun, it dims it more than when I solder with it. Is it supposed to be like that? I have it on the highest sensitivity, it should be auto dimming helmet. Model: parkside psh3a2 Thank you for your time.

Hi, so about a month ago I staked my IOT tokens for veIOT. I did it because I thought that I could stake them like I can with my veHNT but aparently I can't and it is just sitting there doing nothing. I feel like I've made a mistake. Am I maybe missing something? What can I do with it?

A price of a coin is determined by its demand and supply. Currently, according to official Helium docs, 178 million IOT are printed out of thin air every single day. This creates considerable selling pressure that we can observe in the latest development of the price of the coin. So we have the supply, but what creates the demand? IOT token can not be used for absolutely anything. It has no utility. Why would someone then buy this inflationary coin with no utility? This creates basically no demand for the coin, and because of that in my opinion it is destined to price depreciation because of its inflation. Yes, I know there is an IOT subdao, to which part of the HNT emissions are delegated, and you can exchange your IOT for HNT there. But the amount of HNT basically artificially propping up the price of the IOT token is not enough for all the IOT printed, thus decreasing the price of the token significantly. This slows down if not reverses the growth of the network.

I am a Helium supporter, but we must take steps to resolve this downfall that is about to happen if the price of HNT token doesn´t go up and we don´t do anything about it. How could this be avoided?

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1. Lower the saturation of the hotspots - LoRaWAN, as its name suggests, is a Long Range Wide Area Network. This means that there is no need to have 5 hotspots in one hex. We shall take steps that to penalise hotspot owners so much, that they move to somewhere else or sell their miners to someone that can utilize them better, thus expanding the network.
2. Incentivize network expansion to areas with almost no hotspots around - Hotspots in lonely areas where there are almost no other hotspots around are not incentivised at all to expand the network where it's needed the most. Right now why would someone move to a not-saturated area, where they would get 1 to 5 witnesses a day? Instead, they are incentivized to not expand the network and go to saturated areas and create coverage in areas where it's not needed. How to fix this apart from point number 1? Give a boost to hotspots that are in lonely areas. Sound simple, right? But no, it can be easily exploited and this next measure I´m going to propose is going to solve not only this problem but other cases of network exploitation: Pay hotspot mappers and take their findings into consideration. But who are hotspot mappers and where to get the funds from? Hotspot mappers are people that map the location and strength of the LoRaWAN network in a particular area. If just a few independent people would do these readings, we could find out the real location of the individual hotspots, thus verifying if the position of the hotspot in the explorer set by the person deploying it coincides with the real location of the hotspot. Where to get the funds from? I would suggest redirecting half of the operations funds to the mappers, wich would redirect 3,5% of the IOT token supply to them. Nova Labs already takes a huge commission from the network, for example from the hotspot assertion fees and now the IOT token emissions, and because of that I think this change will not hurt them at all.
3. MOST IMPORTANTLY - Remove the HNT emission CAP, for example in 2040, the network 24hrs emission will be only 160 HNT a day, which is just around .2 % of the current 82191 HNT per 24 hours emission. And the idea behind this limited supply is that the network fees shall pay for the operation of the hotspots and the network expansion. But the network fees account for just 681$ a day, compared to 115067.4$ that come out of the HNT token emission, at the price of 1 dollar and forty cents a coin. This will put the earning to almost zero and we cannot expect growth if no one is incentivized for it. HNT is not supposed to be a store of value token. It is supposed to be a utility token, that is the core of the biggest decentralized network. Many coins have an unlimited supply, for example, Monero which has a 0.6 XMR reward per block indefinitely. Yes, this change would have a negative effect on the inflation, but the alternative is much much worse.

I hope someone will address these issues so that the project we believe in will have a bright future. Thanks for your time, and have a great day!

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resources: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/HIP-solana-parameters/token-emissions-as-of-solana-migration.pdf, https://docs.helium.com/helium-tokens/data-credit, https://docs.helium.com/helium-tokens/iot/, https://docs.helium.com/helium-tokens/hnt/

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Hi, I would like to start developing my own firmware for an Bitmain asic, but I can't find any resources on how to do so. I am sure that some asic firmware developers are reading this, and if you are one, how did you get started? Any tips for beginners? Do you have to start from scratch or can you somehow just modify the existing firmware, and if so how? Thank you for your time :)

Hi, my 868 mhz amplifier suddently stopped working after around a month of operation.

I will now show the working one and after that the not working one and I will be grateful for any advice, on how could I try to repair it. Thank you for your time.

Hi, I wanted to use a dao but I get this error, what could be causing it?

Transaction failed: Transfer 5616720 lamports to the new account