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Helium
Company blog · blog.helium.comhardwarebusiness
Helium is the company blog at blog.helium.com, writing about hardware and business. Since 2015, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “The Path to 5G – Own Your Own Helium 5G Hotspot”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as Helium's company blog, cited for posts on its decentralised IoT and 5G network, proof-of-coverage, and Helium Mobile. Comments use it as a source for facts about the network, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Helium Blog. Explore how Helium is reshaping connectivity for everyone.
Most-linked posts?
- The Path to 5G – Own Your Own Helium 5G Hotspot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27
What Hacker News says?
Scams aren't limited to cryptocurrency. There are actual businesses that are providing the real-world utility with the assistance of cryptocurrency. Take, for example, Helium Network. Helium has scaled the most ubiquitous IoT network on Earth with a revolutionary business model that incentivizes users to set up IoT hotspots and soon other wireless protocols like 5G, Wi-Fi 6, VPN, and more, with cryptocurrency incent…
Comment linking /helium-chapter-2-a-network-of-networks-7372262210bd
on “Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets?”Submitted Diving Deeper into Consensus as a story · 60 points
HN discussionOP here. I think Helium(*) is super interesting. They are building an access network for LoRa by using crypto coins to incentivize people to deploy base stations. You essentially get crypto coins for every packet that passes through your own base station. And anyone who wants to use the network pay for access using crypto coins. The idea is that if you are designing and selling a product, say, a dog collar, you can…
Comment linking /elevating-the-helium-network-with-new-helium-inc-name-series-d-46d8266fb7
on “How to run a city-wide wireless network from a drawer”Submitted From Zero to Azure IoT in Five Minutes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionor Airship https://blog.helium.com/helium/2015/04/01/helium-webmachine-... which uses the webmachine model. Very nice for for APIs.
Comment linking /helium/2015/04/01/helium-webmachine-airship.html
on “Haskell at Front Row Education”Submitted Helium's Public Network Visualization and Blockchain Dashboard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is also an earlier post related to Proof-of-Coverage here: https://blog.helium.com/proof-of-coverage-useful-energy-effi...
Comment linking /proof-of-coverage-useful-energy-efficient-and-fair-f1450c7d94c7
on “Diving Deeper into Consensus”Submitted Mapping the World with Uber Hexagons as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> CBRS is a band of wireless spectrum – a 150 MHz wide contiguous band of the 3.5 GHz band > Though the FCC will auction CBRS licenses, called Priority Access Licenses (PALs), enterprises will still be able secure General Authorized Access (GAA) to CBRS spectrum without a license. https://www.sierrawireless.com/iot-blog/new-cbrs-band/ There might even be a community hotspot alliance so you can roam: > Helium 5G will…
Comment linking /episode-two-the-path-to-5g-3f704a58661
on “Ananki: Software-defined Private Enterprise 5G”Submitted Introducing the Helium Blockchain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom their blog posts… Helium mobile is a mobile phone carrier which provides coverage via decentralized 5g cell sites. This is unlike traditional cell carriers which either own the cell site infrastructure or rent access to it from an often larger carrier. Participants who host a 5g cell site on the network are rewarded in project specific crypto tokens. Similarly opted in mobile subscribers who verify the cell sit…
Comment linking /mobile-proof-of-coverage-the-road-ahead-73a25601a13d
on “Helium Mobile”Submitted 802.15.4 Wireless for Internet of Things Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helium adding support for Arduino, mbed, Pi and nearly any cloud platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actility and Helium Blockchain Announce Roaming Agreement Driving Enterprise IoT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Decentralized Approach to Building an IoT Network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon: A 900 Mhz Telco – The People vs. Amazon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IoT and Blockchain? Welcome to Helium's Decentralized Machine Network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Navigating Security Threats: IoT Systems Must Be Secured at the Hardware Level as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elevating the Helium Network with New Helium Inc Name and Series D as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Path to 5G – Own Your Own Helium 5G Hotspot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helium and Streamr: A Pipeline Connect, Deliver, and Monetize IoT Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using LoRaWAN technology, IoT devices don’t depend on smartphones and data plans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning about LongFi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helium Blockchain Scalability and Machine Application Data as a story · 1 points
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