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Date Posted: 10:53:02 1/08/23 Sun
Author: Jasper
Subject: First I've heard of this.

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"Mining HNT is done by installing a simple device on your home or office window," Helium wrote on their website, adding these "hotspots provide miles of wireless network coverage for millions of devices around you using Helium LongFi, and you are rewarded in HNT for doing this. And because of an innovative proof-of-work model (we call it "Proof-of-Coverage"), your Hotspot only uses 5W of energy."

There's no confirmation Helium hotspots are the devices being found by officials, but speculation indeed points to that.

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/mysterious-antennas-found-utahs-hills-some-speculate-decentralized-blockchain-network

https://www.helium.com/

Compared to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, what sets LongFi apart is the ability to transfer data bi-directionally over much longer ranges (more than 200x Wi-Fi) and maximize battery life for compatible devices. However, LongFi is not designed for devices with high-bandwidth needs such as smartphones or computers.

Unlike other proprietary protocols, consistent with our open approach we plan to release a LongFi SDK so developers can build applications to run on the network.

The SDK will contain documentation and tools including a C library for LongFi and a complete low power OS designed around the Murata module under open source licensing so developers can rapidly build devices to run on the network. We plan to release the LongFi SDK later this year.

https://blog.helium.com/learning-about-longfi-4b7b36c9bf54

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