The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast

By: Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
  • Summary

  • Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi and guests discuss the fast-growing Helium network, providing worldwide coverage for IoT devices with LoRaWAN technology.
    Copyright Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi 2020 All rights reserved.
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Episodes
  • 30. Hivemapper (w/ Ariel Seidman)
    Mar 15 2023

    Hivemapper CEO Ariel Seidman joins me to discuss one of the fastest-growing users of the Helium network, and explains how his long history in the mapping industry resulted in a Helium-like token model that quickly led to exponential dashcam adoption with drivers all over the world.

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    Resources:

    • Learn more about Hivemapper: https://www.hivemapper.com/
    • Follow Ariel: https://twitter.com/aseidman
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • 29. Helium Therapy Session (Live)
    Dec 13 2022

    An all-star cast of Helium community members including Nik Hawks (gristleking), Ed Ballou, Winston Lazar and Gary from Australia join me to reflect on the network's current issues and explore the boundless opportunities that most are overlooking.

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    Resources:

    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • 28. HIP 70 Deep Dive (w/ Amir Haleem & Anatoly Yakovenko)
    Sep 8 2022

    A discussion with founders and foundation members of Solana and Helium about HIP 70, the radical proposal to scale the Helium network. I moderate the panel and ask the community's most burning questions about what will change.

    This is the most honest and compelling talk about HIP 70 yet, going deep into the root causes of why the Nova team thinks this proposal needs to happen.

    00:00:00 Start
    00:01:15 Intro & community recap
    00:03:44 HIP 70 brief explanation
    00:05:46 The road to HIP 70
    00:12:52 Helium community skepticism about updates
    00:16:35 Advantages of switching to a new L1
    00:21:14 Difficulty of building L1
    00:23:29 Importance of laser focus
    00:26:41 Is Helium forfeiting its sovereignty?
    00:30:33 Exploding community dev engagement
    00:34:14 How long HIP 70 will take
    00:42:17 How oracles affect decentralization
    00:46:46 Validators unstaking timeline
    00:57:04 IOT genesis snapshot timeline
    00:58:00 IOT token launch timeline
    00:58:54 Could HIP 70 be compromised?
    01:00:16 Pros/cons of community governance
    01:01:43 Why Solana, if it's unstable?
    01:10:57 Better hotspot remote diagnostics?
    01:14:23 How does veHNT work?
    01:17:09 Impact on IOT/LoRaWAN routers?
    01:21:51 Broken data packet accounting
    01:22:50 Detailed breakdown of the L1 choice?
    01:26:00 Closing thoughts

    Check out the latest TL;DR on HIP 70 by Frank Mong: https://blog.helium.com/tl-dr-on-hip-70-hnt-ecosystem-would-expand-on-solana-abb123501765

    And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/helium

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    Resources:

    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
    • Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
    • Follow Austin: https://twitter.com/Austin_Federa
    • Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
    • Follow Joey: https://twitter.com/jhiller
    • Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
    • Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 29 mins

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