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Helium Network Hints at Crypto's Practical Uses

6 pointsby aarghhover 3 years ago

2 comments

civilizedover 3 years ago
I agree with the author that this is a relatively interesting, or at least benign, use of crypto. But let&#x27;s look at what this project seems to boil down to.<p>It&#x27;s about you earning crypto by letting others use bandwidth provided to you by your ISP, which is typically against your ISP&#x27;s ToS.<p>And it makes sense that this is against the ToS. You&#x27;re basically setting up a mini-ISP on your ISP&#x27;s pipes without compensating them any extra for the increased traffic.<p>This is just fancy mooching, and if it were to scale up, ISPs would surely crack down on it.<p>And if ISPs really wanted to leverage end user hotspots to expand access, they could probably just do it themselves.<p>Better crypto idea than average, but still seems unsustainable and Rube Goldberg, like other crypto schemes.
delabayover 3 years ago
I wonder if they can apply this model to all wireless protocols?