[heyrhett]

Helium network has been growing fast. Just crossed 20,000 hotspots and will probably reach 100,000 this year. It uses a crypto mining incentive so the network expands without any central corporation needing to spend a dime on infrastructure. People are already building cool IoT projects with it from adafruit kits.

https://explorer.helium.com/coverage

[jamez1]

This would be far better if the currency was used to pay for connectivity, and the router was reimbursed for routing.

Connectivity has a cost, and none of these networks will amount to anything unless the model can incentivize all aspects of the infrastructure necessary

[VectorLock]

Wow, I've never heard of this before but it sounds super interesting.

[gonesilent]

It's a copy of the open things network that lora such a rise in popularity. Now with "blockchain".

[VectorLock]

Looks like trying to use cryptocurrency mining to incentivize people running hotspots, which actually sounds like a useful application.