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📄️ A Rough Guide To Onocoy

Onocoy is a GNSS DePIN project with a "bring your own" hardware invitation. You buy a base station, set it up, and start providing its correction stream to Onocoy.

I've been watching Wingbits for a while now. They're a new DePIN rewarding you for tracking commercial and private planes, and some parts of the project remind me of the early days of Helium, back when I wrote the original Rough Guide for Helium. Wingbits is a project that allows you to choose your hardware and that rewards you for providing "better" service. In the early days of Helium I gained a significant advantage by trying to provide the absolute best service over just sticking a Hotspot in a window. I \*think\* the same kind of thinking will be useful for Wingbits.

📄️ An (Early) Rough Guide to Setting Up GEODNET

The Helium Network demonstrated just how powerful tokenized radio coverage could be, and a host of other companies are rolling out wireless networks, from WiFi to satellite to cell, using token incentives. GEODNET is one of those companies.

📄️ Citizen Science: The Next DePIN Frontier

Now that Helium has shown the world how to deploy a global network of physical devices at a low capex, and Hivemapper, GEODNET, and WeatherXM (among many others) following suit, what should we expect to see in the next year?

📄️ How To Turn Your Daily Drive Into Profit With Hivemapper

Mapping is big business. From 2016-2018, Uber paid Google $58 million for the use of Google's maps. That's $53,00 per DAY. Mapping, of course is a data flow technology, and where data flows, money goes. You and I, as "normal people" are just beginning to be able to tap into these pervasive data flows around us. From our personal data to the data we can generate just by interacting with the world around us, we are surrounded by a flood of data.

📄️ How Do You Assess A Blockchain + Meatspace Project?

How do you know if a new blockchain + meatspace (B+M) project (like Helium, or GEODNet, or Planetwatch) is likely to succeed? What are the key indicators of success or failure?

📄️ How To Maximize GEODNET Staking

How can you make the most of the new GEODNET staking program? Staking allows anyone to signal that they want a miner deployed in a certain area. Staking also offers larger rewards for both the staker and miners than a normal deployment. I'll assume for now you know what GEODNET is; if not, hit this article first.

📄️ How To Understand The GEODNET Token System

A common question with any DePIN project is: Where do all the tokens go? In GEODNET, 35% of all tokens emitted go to those of us deploying GEODNET base stations and providing coverage. But what about the rest of the tokens? Where do they go? How many are there? How do you KNOW?

📄️ RevoFi and Far Edge: What Happens When YOU Own the System?

I sat down with Justin Caswell, CEO of RevoFi, to walk through what RevoFi is, what it aims to do, and how it's different than anything else out there. Including, yes, Helium.

📄️ So This Is A Frodobot

"What the heck is that thing?" It's something I hear via the built-in mic all the time as I've been driving my new Frodobot around Normal Heights.

📄️ The Explosion of Blockchain + Meatspace

At the recent TIPIN Summit put on by Lattice Capital, it became apparent that blockchain + meatspace projects are about to hit the mainstream of the cryptogalaxy.

📄️ Weather XM - An Easy Way to Stack Your Pole

With the rise of Helium, many of us were introduced to the new concept of combining a blockchain application with actual physical real world usage and tokenizing the incentives. I call that combo blockchain + meatspace, and Helium is just the beginning.

📄️ What Is The State Of Play In The World of DeWi?

Helium is the project that started it all, but the DeWi space is rapidly growing. With that growth come questions, mysteries, and opportunities. New players, both known and unknown, are entering the mix. As the idea of 5G starts to really get legs, one question you should constantly be asking yourself is, "What is the state of the space?" I'm glad you asked...

📄️ Wingbits For The Advanced User: Tar1090

I've written about the basics of Wingbits in a recent post; if you haven't read that yet or you're new to the project, take about 7 minutes and read through it; it'll make the rest of this much easier to understand.

📄️ Wingbits Optimization: Graphs1090 Plus

Ok, so ya caught the Wingbits bug and are willing to play the game just to see how good you can get? It's fun to mess around with the Tar1090 tool (which I've covered in a previous post) and see the pretty pictures, but...what about them numbers?