If it’s the former, then I can guarantee you if someone put in the effort they’d be able to utilize whatever the maximum throughput of a CoolSpot device is (subject to the limitation of the internet it’s connected to).
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As to Helium value and use. This is still a bit of a grey area for me but this is my understanding. The companies that use the IOT will pay for the data transmitted with tokens.
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That is to say, with Helium’s presumable integration in the modern world, I expect it to reach more than $15/coin in the nearest future.
As previously stated the “free” hardware is a marketing gimmick. The idea is very much to eventually get you to invest real money into HNT.
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How are Tokens Earned?Hotspots earn HNT for building and securing network infrastructure and transferring device data.
Helium is fantastic, life changing to me. However the bugs in app are proving to be a bottleneck for deploying new hotspots. Reasserting locations has become expensive because of a lack on confirmation when it is successful. Several times I have attempted to reassert location to find I am double charged the DC fee because there is no way to confirm which attempts have been successful.
Please add a notification alert when someone adds a helium within a few miles of your own.
Helium pays hotspot owners back by letting them collect HNT, a proprietary token with a current value of around 31 cents per token. According to Reddit's Helium subreddit, all hotspots share around 80,000 tokens daily, which means that as the number of hotspots goes up, the earnings per hotspot go down; one poster quotes a global average of 27.5 HNT ($8.50) per day right now. That means a hotspot could make back its $349 in 41 days. (Helium's official website estimates about 108,000 tokens are distributed daily.)
The Nebra hotspot miners come with two options for managing your hotspot remotely.
I’m glad I found this out before trying to sink (+$10000) into my own Helium Hotspot network.
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When I clicked “Register Hotspot” in the app, it took me to a screen indicating it was “Registering Hotspot,” but I was stuck there for a while — over an hour. It seemed odd to me, so I headed over to the Helium Discord and asked the question, “I set up my hotspot next to a second-story window and the app has been saying ‘Registering Hotspot’ with the spinning circles for almost an hour now. Is this normal?” Someone responded almost immediately, “No, it’s not. Try power cycle. Also try ethernet for connection.” So I unplugged the hotspot and plugged it back in, and that did the trick, my hotspot was now online.