The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast: Recent Episodes
Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi and guests discuss the fast-growing Helium network, providing worldwide coverage for IoT devices with LoRaWAN technology.
Mark Philips (VP of Business Development) and Mario Di Dio (GM of Network) from Nova Labs join us to discuss their landmark network usage deal with telecom giant Telefonica via their subsidiary Movistar in Mexico.
We dive deep into this critical trial for the network and how it could spur growth with up to 2 million new subscribers roaming onto Helium.
Deploy Hotspots in Mexico: https://helium.com/mexico
Expansion Zones & Stats: https://world.helium.com
Follow Mark: https://x.com/pharkmillups
Follow Mario: https://x.com/didiomario
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Coco Tang from Helium Mobile joins to discuss the world's first TRULY FREE phone plan and 2 other freshly launched plans.
Download the Helium Mobile app at https://onelink.to/ezw5cw and use code ARMAN for your $0 plan.
Check out Helium Mobile: https://hellohelium.com/
Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
JMF & triM join to discuss returning to a single token (HNT). Lean how we got here, why it's a critical move and how the HIP authors think it can be pulled off.
Follow James (JMF): https://x.com/JMFayal
Follow Matt (triM): https://x.com/thetrimdj
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hivemapper CEO Ariel Seidman joins me to discuss one of the fastest-growing users of the Helium network, and explains how his long history in the mapping industry resulted in a Helium-like token model that quickly led to exponential dashcam adoption with drivers all over the world.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Hivemapper: https://www.hivemapper.com/
- Follow Ariel: https://twitter.com/aseidman
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
An all-star cast of Helium community members including Nik Hawks (gristleking), Ed Ballou, Winston Lazar and Gary from Australia join me to reflect on the network's current issues and explore the boundless opportunities that most are overlooking.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
A discussion with founders and foundation members of Solana and Helium about HIP 70, the radical proposal to scale the Helium network. I moderate the panel and ask the community's most burning questions about what will change.
This is the most honest and compelling talk about HIP 70 yet, going deep into the root causes of why the Nova team thinks this proposal needs to happen.
00:00:00 Start
00:01:15 Intro & community recap
00:03:44 HIP 70 brief explanation
00:05:46 The road to HIP 70
00:12:52 Helium community skepticism about updates
00:16:35 Advantages of switching to a new L1
00:21:14 Difficulty of building L1
00:23:29 Importance of laser focus
00:26:41 Is Helium forfeiting its sovereignty?
00:30:33 Exploding community dev engagement
00:34:14 How long HIP 70 will take
00:42:17 How oracles affect decentralization
00:46:46 Validators unstaking timeline
00:57:04 IOT genesis snapshot timeline
00:58:00 IOT token launch timeline
00:58:54 Could HIP 70 be compromised?
01:00:16 Pros/cons of community governance
01:01:43 Why Solana, if it's unstable?
01:10:57 Better hotspot remote diagnostics?
01:14:23 How does veHNT work?
01:17:09 Impact on IOT/LoRaWAN routers?
01:21:51 Broken data packet accounting
01:22:50 Detailed breakdown of the L1 choice?
01:26:00 Closing thoughts
Check out the latest TL;DR on HIP 70 by Frank Mong: https://blog.helium.com/tl-dr-on-hip-70-hnt-ecosystem-would-expand-on-solana-abb123501765
And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/helium
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
- Follow Austin: https://twitter.com/Austin_Federa
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Joey: https://twitter.com/jhiller
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
HIP 70 is a game changer for the scalability of the Helium Network. This episode is the ultimate educational resource about HIP 70, with commentary from both Helium founder Amir Haleem and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as the Nova Labs core dev team.
Learn more about the HIP on the Helium Foundation's blog: https://medium.com/helium-foundation/hip-70-helium-core-team-proposes-to-migrate-to-solana-e7ea23a042e7
And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/helium
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Helium DAO (HIP 51) is a proposal for a new, more flexible architecture to enable the Helium network's future growth. HIP 52-53 are the proposals for the IoT and Mobile subDAOs that fit under this umbrella.
In this episode, the authors of HIP 51, James Fayal, Abhay Kumar, and Tushar Jain, as well as Nova Labs CEO Amir Haleem, join for a live discussion to answer the community's questions about these wide-reaching improvements.
For an intro to HIP 51-53, check out this Twitter space recording: https://twitter.com/helium/status/1524408694829551617
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Tushar: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_
- Follow James: https://twitter.com/JMFayal
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Light Hotspots have been live for a week. They arrived with growing pains, but the future is bright. The Nova Labs team, moderators, and community mentors join us to answer the community's questions about what comes next.
NOTE: It was mentioned on the call that a hotspot's connected validator would be shown on the explorer, which upon further investigation isn't possible. However, makers are looking to integrate this feature and it will be available on certain hotspot dashboards in the coming weeks. Check with your maker for more information.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
On May 11, Light Hotspots will finally go live! Coco Tang, Director of Product at Nova Labs, joins me for an action-packed conversation about how Light Hotspots will benefit the network, what activation day will look like and more.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow Coco: https://twitter.com/_cocotang
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Nova Labs CPO Abhay Kumar and FreedomFi CEO Boris Renski join me to discuss the future of earning with Helium 5G hotspots. They share in-depth details on current progress and the latest cutting-edge development needed to make it all happen.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Watch FreedomFi transmit 5G data on Helium testnet in May 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2rhjeWiRK8
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Boris: https://twitter.com/zer0tweets
- Follow FreedomFi: https://twitter.com/Open5G
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
I answer your Twitter questions on Helium Network supply issues, blockchain bugs, balloon math and more.
Get started mining with FairSpot: https://www.fairspot.host/
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
This is a recording of a live Discord AMA I hosted on Feb 19, 2022 to clear the air about HIP 55 after considerable confusion in the community. Includes commentary from Helium core team members.
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- VOTE on HIP 55: https://heliumvote.com/14Rjhhz1DXLVmSRdzappqWgD6rfgu6XYxmdaSCvWLyLH8ZWbciK
- Read HIP 55: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0055-validator-challenges.md
- Read more about Light Hotspots: https://docs.helium.com/mine-hnt/light-hotspots/
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
The Helium core team hosts an open discussion about HIP 54 and 55, some of the final steps on the road to Light Hotspots becoming a reality.
NOTE: madninja's audio wasn't working well so his part was removed as it was largely unintelligible
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Read HIP 54: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0054-h3dex-targeting.md
- Read HIP 55: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0055-validator-challenges.md
- Read more about Light Hotspots: https://docs.helium.com/mine-hnt/light-hotspots/
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Ex-Verizon Wireless engineer Russell From explains what cellular networks are, what big telcos desperately need and how Helium 5G deployers can take advantage of the situation.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Russell: https://twitter.com/fromenator
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
A review of the latest Q&A by FreedomFi CEO Boris Renski. He dropped a lot of new, interesting info and I explain the context and motivations behind his answers.
View the doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TN8zLwq3qNFy2lbsKskuf_p4mNi_XZflADe9-ORcHDk
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
A live conversation about HIP 42 (Beacon/Witness Ratio), authored by Anthonyra. HIP 42 is currently up for a temperature check vote at Helium Vote which ends on 2022/01/16.
Check out the resources below to read this HIP and learn how to cast your vote.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
0:01:09 - Anthonyra Intro
0:04:11 - HIP 42 Intro
0:12:15 - Helium Network P2P Issues
0:17:46 - Preventing Repeater Gaming
0:24:43 - Preventing Over-Witnessing
0:31:59 - Will this kill my earnings?
0:40:13 - Heefi: Network stability concerns
0:52:05 - PaulM: HIP 42 vs 44
0:58:22 - FezzFest: Anti-gaming/democracy concerns
1:02:26 - FezzFest: Increasing beacon rewards
1:04:51 - Closing Thoughts
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Read HIP 42: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/39cd8dde1acc0c6404af6528b189dd8cd84a7864/0042-beacon-witness-ratio-witness-reward-limit.md
- Vote on HIP 42: https://helium.vote/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
An interview with Frank Mong, COO of Helium Inc. Frank shares his thoughts on network scaling, 5G partnerships, how Helium is fighting against illegitimate hotspots gaming HNT rewards, and more.
This episode is hosted by Nik Hawks a.k.a. Gristle King, a prominent Helium community member and winner of Helium's 2021 Noble award. Please show Nik some love by checking out his website and Twitter.
01:11 - Frank Intro
03:34 - Decentralization
08:38 - HST & Fundraising
10:54 - 5G Partnerships
17:12 - Network Scaling
19:11 - Network Usage Is Coming
21:38 - Mining Rewards
31:12 - Coverage Gaps & Backhaul
34:28 - Omni-Protocol Future
36:53 - Incumbent Reactions to Helium
44:04 - Projects Influenced by Helium
48:14 - Gaming/Cheating
52:31 - Spectrum Advocacy
55:01 - Closing Thoughts
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Check out Gristle King's website: https://www.gristleking.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow TheGristleKing: https://twitter.com/thegristleking
- Follow Frank: https://twitter.com/fmong
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Boris Resnki, founder of FreedomFi, and returning guest James Fayal join to discuss making Helium an omni-protocol network (starting with 5G) and enabling Proof of Coverage for new protocols.
This is an amazing discussion with tons of detail, including the 5G launch plan, carrier deals, possible exploits and more. Boris and James do an excellent job of answering the tough questions.
0:00:00 - Start
0:02:03 - What Helium Is & Could Be
0:03:06 - FreedomFi Intro & Back Story
0:06:59 - Helium Meets FreedomFi
0:09:41 - HIP 27 Intro
0:16:26 - Integrating Helium With Existing Cellular Networks
0:17:07 - How Cellular Networks Are Built
0:21:52 - How Cellular Will Work on Helium
0:28:22 - HIP 27 Explanation
0:32:09 - HIP 37 Intro
0:39:49 - How Data Credits Are Priced Per Protocol
0:42:33 - Why 5G Needs Proof of Coverage
0:48:18 - How 5G Proof of Coverage Will Work
0:54:16 - Preventing PoC Sybil Attacks
0:59:19 - IMEI Spoofing
1:04:10 - Professional Witnesses
1:11:13 - HIP 37 Skeptic: Diverting PoC Rewards From LoRaWAN
1:20:35 - HIP 37 Skeptic: Preventing 5G Wealth Concentration
1:25:05 - HIP 37 Skeptic: Solving Cold Start For New Protocols
1:27:39 - HIP 37 Skeptic: Preventing DC Burn Arbitrage
1:33:46 - HIP 37 Conclusion
1:37:52 - We Love LoRaWAN
1:41:08 - Suggested Reading
1:42:14 - Bonus: Redenomination HIP Overview
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Boris: https://twitter.com/zer0tweets
- Follow FreedomFi: https://twitter.com/Open5G
- Follow James: https://twitter.com/JMFayal
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Two IoT industry experts join to discuss what Helium does differently to upend the antiquated way that IoT networks are traditionally built and sold. We also cover what types of devices actually use Helium and how they can make the world a better place.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Abhay Kumar, Chief Product Officer of Helium Inc., joins us to discuss the imminent validator launch, share opinions on on-chain reward splitting and unveil some seriously beautiful NFTs that Helium is auctioning off for charity.
00:00 - Start
00:27 - Abhay Intro: From Mylar to CPO
06:30 - Is Validator Testnet Ending Soon?
09:53 - What's Left Before Mainnet Launch
13:47 - Bison Trails Unstake Cooldown Confusion
17:23 - HIP 24 (On-Chain Reward Splitting) Review & Opinions
29:31 - Zodiac NFTs: Inspiration
33:45 - Zodiac NFTs: Demo
38:14 - Zodiac NFTs: Give India Charity
39:46 - Zodiac NFTs: Why Solana Is Great
41:28 - Zodiac NFTs: How To Bid
43:01 - Abhay Teaches Us French
43:41 - Bitcoin Miami Conference
44:23 - How Helium Met Metaplex
46:19 - Abhay Thanks The Community
47:48 - Arman Thanks The Listeners
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
FairSpot is a company I started with a mission to deliver radically fair hotspot hosting. Learn why I started it, our mission and how we operate to empower hosts and support the Helium ecosystem.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow FairSpot: https://twitter.com/fairspothelium
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Helium CEO Amir Haleem joins to discuss future work on Proof of Coverage and adding 5G to the network via a partnership with FreedomFi.
00:00 - Start
00:30 - Roadmap: Proof of Coverage
06:43 - Roadmap: CBRS & 5G
21:10 - Outro
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://plinkhq.com/i/1524379293
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Helium CEO Amir Haleem joins to discuss future work on validators and light hotspots, which together form the future of the Helium blockchain and hotspot infrastructure.
00:00 - Start
05:12 - What Didn't Make It On The Roadmap
07:48 - Hiring More Engineers?
09:34 - Helium's Layer 1 Blockchain
11:35 - Roadmap: Validators
20:54 - Roadmap: Light Hotspots
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://plinkhq.com/i/1524379293
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Tushar Jain is managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a prominent investment firm and one of Helium's largest investors.
He joins us once again to discuss his new article, The Helium Flywheel, and break down all of the components that ensure Helium miners will have a positive return on their investment through the next million hotspots and beyond.
00:52 - The Helium Flywheel Intro
02:23 - How The Flywheel Works
05:42 - Manufacturing & Supply Bottlenecks
07:56 - New Manufacturer Shipping Announcements
09:24 - Hotspot Price Flywheel Impact
12:22 - Mining ROI at 1,000,000 Hotspots
15:36 - What 1,000,000 Hotspots Really Means
17:21 - The Right Side of the Flywheel
20:32 - What Permissionless Means
21:24 - 5G Data Credit Usage
22:25 - Tushar's Prediction
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://plinkhq.com/i/1524379293
Resources:
- Read The Helium Flywheel: https://multicoin.capital/2021/03/17/the-helium-flywheel/
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Tushar: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Mark Phillips is Helium's Vice President of Business Development and one of the company's earliest employees.
Mark goes into great detail about the company's process for bringing new users and device manufacturers onto the network, outlines the company's strategy and helps me understand Helium's competitors and the challenges the network faces. He also shares some pretty awesome growth predictions for this year and beyond.
0:00:35 - Introductions
0:01:18 - Philly Blockchain Meetup
0:04:54 - Hotspot Names
0:06:41 - Mark's Helium Journey
0:11:22 - The Network Exists!
0:15:41 - Amazon SIdewalk & Class C Devices
0:24:11 - Helium Use Cases
0:30:17 - Helium's Business Dev Team
0:33:04 - The Senet, TTN, MachineQ Exodus
0:40:18 - Helium Coverage Mapping
0:43:45 - Redundancy & SLAs
0:50:49 - Adding 100,000s Of Devices
0:54:45 - Helium's True Competitor
0:57:37 - Helium's Unmatched Community
1:01:16 - Open Sourcing Helium Hotspot Design
1:02:16 - Municipalities Using Helium
1:05:22 - Threats To Helium
1:08:37 - Manufacturing Delays
1:09:25 - 2021 Growth Prediction
1:10:11 - Final Thoughts
1:11:41 - Mark Jogs My Memory
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://plinkhq.com/i/1524379293
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Mark: https://twitter.com/pharkmillups
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
A conversation with para1 (aka Andrew). We go through the most recent Helium Improvement Proposals, HIP 21-26, and offer a basic overview as well as in-depth analysis, in addition to our opinions on whether or not we'd support them.
0:00:38 - Introductions
0:02:19 - HIP 15 + 17: Brief Recap
0:11:05 - HIP 21: PoC Link Layer Upgrades
0:27:58 - HIP 22: Anchor Gateways
0:48:36 - HIP 24: Reward Splitting
1:09:17 - HIP 23 + 25: Validators
1:19:54 - HIP 26: Payment Notes
1:26:58 - Closing Thoughts
1:30:08 - Coming Soon... ;)
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
An informal Q&A session with Steve Sellers, an engineer who's new to Helium and has some great questions about the network. We dive deep into hotspot earnings optimization, proof of coverage, cellular backhaul and more.
00:59 - Welcome, Steve's Background, Why We Like Helium
05:14 - HIP 19, Hardware Manufacturing
11:26 - RAK Shipping Delays, Swarm Keys, ECC Chips
14:43 - Proof of Coverage Explanation, GPS Spoofing
17:45 - HNT Rewards Explanation
22:55 - Rewards & Trust in a Post-PoC Era
25:27 - Mining Nodes, Performance, Cloud Mining
30:29 - Optimizing Hotspot Earnings
34:07 - Cellular Backhaul, Outdoor Deployments
37:34 - LoRaWAN Use Cases, Layering Protocols, Free Business Ideas
42:42 - Amazon Sidewalk
48:18 - About Me, Public WiFi Networks
Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
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Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
A discussion with James Fayal and returning guest Tushar Jain about Helium's token economics and our new proposal, HIP 20.
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Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Outro song: Sethu & Lil $adape - Hotspot
Frank Mong, Chief Operating Officer at Helium, Inc. joins to discuss the new RAK Hotspot Miner, the perils of supply chains, Amazon Sidewalk and more.
Fair warning, there's more profanity than usual in this episode.
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Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Tushar Jain is co-founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, a crypto-focused, thesis-driven investment firm which co-led Helium's $15M Series C round along with Union Square Ventures. He's also the founder of the DeWi Alliance, a governing body for decentralized wireless initiaives
Previously, he was the founder of health tech startup ePatientFinder which was acquired by Elligo Health Research, and before that he graduated from NYU with degrees in finance and political science.
Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
Check out the DeWi Alliance: https://www.dewi.org/
Read Multicoin's blog post about Helium: https://multicoin.capital/2019/06/12/helium-series-c/
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Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Helium co-founder and CEO Amir Haleem joins us once more to talk about the decisions that went into the hardware, software and design of the iconic Helium Hotspot. We cover security, hardware specs, resource consumption, and also take a look into a future where there are 3rd party hotspot manufacturers and DIY hotspots mining on the network.
We also dive into Proof of Coverage, which is the method of verifying that real coverage is being provided by hotspots on the network, and has also been the rocket fuel behind the Helium Network's growth.
You'll hear some crazy ideas about old Proof of Coverage schemes, including sampling public radio, and where its design might go next, including coverage maps and witness sampling.
Fair warning, this is an in-depth technical discussion.
Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
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Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Helium co-founder and CEO Amir Haleem guides us through Helium's journey to build a wireless network for low-power sensors.
It's a fascinating story filled with twists and turns, failure and success, and one overarching mission to fill an aching demand in the tech world that, for some reason, nobody has been able to fill until now.
We cover lots of ground here, including the beginnings of the company, fundraising, technology choices, the cryptoeconomic model and visions for the future.
A fair warning, our discussion gets fairly technical at times, but even if you're not technically inclined, I urge you to stick around, especially if you're interested in the grand idea of building a network that's powered and owned by people, not big telcos.
Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
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Follow Amir: @amirhaleem
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Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade