Episodes

  • 31. Return to HNT - HIP 138 (w/ JMF & triM)

    31. Return to HNT - HIP 138 (w/ JMF & triM)
    Nov 15 2024

    JMF & triM join to discuss returning to a single token (HNT). Lean how we got here, why it's a critical move and how the HIP authors think it can be pulled off.

    Read HIP 138: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0138-return-to-hnt.md
    Follow James (JMF): https://x.com/JMFayal
    Follow Matt (triM): https://x.com/thetrimdj

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

    • Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • 30. Hivemapper (w/ Ariel Seidman)

    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.

    • Learn more about Hivemapper: https://www.hivemapper.com/
    • Follow Ariel: https://twitter.com/aseidman

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

    • Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • 29. Helium Therapy Session (Live)

    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.

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

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

    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

    • 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

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

    • Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • 27. Helium + Solana And Network Scaling: HIP 70 (w/ Amir Haleem, Anatoly Yakovenko, Core Devs)

    27. Helium + Solana And Network Scaling: HIP 70 (w/ Amir Haleem, Anatoly Yakovenko, Core Devs)
    Sep 6 2022

    HIP 70 is a game changer for the scalability of the Helium Network. This episode is the ultimate educational resource about HIP 70, with commentary from both Helium founder Amir Haleem and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as the Nova Labs core dev team.

    Learn more about the HIP on the Helium Foundation's blog: https://medium.com/helium-foundation/hip-70-helium-core-team-proposes-to-migrate-to-solana-e7ea23a042e7

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

    • Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
    • Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

    • Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • 26. HIP 51-53 (Helium DAO) Live AMA

    26. HIP 51-53 (Helium DAO) Live AMA
    May 30 2022

    Helium DAO (HIP 51) is a proposal for a new, more flexible architecture to enable the Helium network's future growth. HIP 52-53 are the proposals for the IoT and Mobile subDAOs that fit under this umbrella.

    In this episode, the authors of HIP 51, James Fayal, Abhay Kumar, and Tushar Jain, as well as Nova Labs CEO Amir Haleem, join for a live discussion to answer the community's questions about these wide-reaching improvements.

    For an intro to HIP 51-53, check out this Twitter space recording: https://twitter.com/helium/status/1524408694829551617

    • Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
    • Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
    • Follow Tushar: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_
    • Follow James: https://twitter.com/JMFayal

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

    • Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • 25. Light Hotspots Upgrade Live AMA (w/ Nova Labs Team)

    25. Light Hotspots Upgrade Live AMA (w/ Nova Labs Team)
    May 18 2022

    Light Hotspots have been live for a week. They arrived with growing pains, but the future is bright. The Nova Labs team, moderators, and community mentors join us to answer the community's questions about what comes next.

    NOTE: It was mentioned on the call that a hotspot's connected validator would be shown on the explorer, which upon further investigation isn't possible. However, makers are looking to integrate this feature and it will be available on certain hotspot dashboards in the coming weeks. Check with your maker for more information.

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

    • Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • 24. Light Hotspots Activate! (w/ Coco Tang)

    24. Light Hotspots Activate! (w/ Coco Tang)
    May 9 2022

    On May 11, Light Hotspots will finally go live! Coco Tang, Director of Product at Nova Labs, joins me for an action-packed conversation about how Light Hotspots will benefit the network, what activation day will look like and more.

    • Follow Coco: https://twitter.com/_cocotang

    Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

    More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
    • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
    • Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

    Resources:

    • Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
    • Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
    • Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
    • Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
    • Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
    • Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
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    45 mins