17 docs tagged with "Blockchain + Meatspace"

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.

I got into Helium to deploy and use a LoRa Wide Area Network (you can read about that here). Along with everyone else, I then got caught up in the wild gold rush of '20-'21, deploying hotspots and earning HNT, helping clients do the same, and occasionally just looking around and wondering at the madness of it all. While that was fun, and an incredibly profitable excuse to get out into some of my favorite parts of the backcountry in San Diego, that run is over and I can finally return to the reason I found and started with this project: Sensors.

HIP 70 is simple. We (the Helium Community) are moving from doing everything ourselves to farming out a few things to experts. Here's what it looks like.

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 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.

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.

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?

One of many extraordinary aspects of being alive in 2023 is access to resources. In this case, it was access both to a 3D printer (a Prusa Mk3S+ I assembled from the kit) and finding design talent to get maximum value of the printer. Before we get there though, let's start at the beginning.

"The job right now isn't to make IoT easy. It's to make it work".

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.

"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.

We're about to make one of the largest migrations ever done on a blockchain, from one L1 to another. Sure, there have been other large migrations, but this is easily the largest ever seen in the DePIN space. With that that as our framework, let's talk about the reasons for the move, the challenges we face, the opportunities on Solana, and what your expectations for the move might reasonably be.

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.

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...

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.

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?