Helium and MXC

Web3.0 wireless infrastructure is a hot track as the needs of connecting devices and people to blockchain is increasing.
Among all these projects there are some misconception about MXC and Helium within both communities, hope this article will help to clear them up.

MatchX 3,000 for a hotspot? They'll never build a network that covers the USA.

M2Pro miner is the most advanced LPWAN miner all over the world, equipped with the updated 2020 version SX1303 chipsets and geolocation capacity, while the majority of the HNT miners are equipped with SX1308/SX1301/SX1302 chipsets that released around 2013, has less radio performance and no geolocation.

Also M2Pro puts two radio SX1303, which means MXC has one miner installed equals to HNT sells two miner with less capacity and less performance. I think no one checked whether you can put indoor electronics outdoor by just putting an enclosure there to protect it, it will just degrade drastically since the components are not industrial graded.

I put an example here about little components inside the hardware, if it is not industrial components (which is much more expensive than consumer electronics, usually 3x), the lifespan is in great danger. How would you expect a country to be covered with amateur indoor hardware? An industrial-level designed miner can really stand for 5-10 years to cover a country.

All they care about is selling miners. They're lying about wireless coverage too. 40km on 900mhz freq with those chincy 3db antennas? Get off the couch. You can't defeat physics.

All I care about is how to make the network sustainable and crypto users can easy setup and maintain it. Since if Verizon/Vodafone network is down, you can call their support to bring it back, if a Web3.0 network is down, who you should call? HNT provides no solution on this, but MXC has miner health and MetaXP as a Proof-of-Participation model to encourage non-tech to setup and maintain their network, don't easily turn it off. This is all we care about.

I have already explained the relationship between antenna gain and the coverage, it is really contrary to the non-tech instinct is the low-gain antenna can provide more coverage, while the high-gain antenna only goes to one direction.

Yes we all can't defeat physics indeed. I highly recommend all of us go for low-gain antenna for the majority of the users and if there is only one region wants to be covered, we design a matched antenna with high-gain to cover it.

Helium’s and Match X seem to have different methods of profitization. Helium Inc is a large holder of HNT. Their success is tied to the increasing value of the crypto, not by selling miners. Helium is already allowing 3rd party companies to manufacture the miners. At one point, they even gave the keys to build your own miner for free. Unfortunately, this has been discontinued (if you want to know why check out my post on POC Hacking).

Yes indeed the business model is very different, they want you to buy their coins to pay for the network fees, which is already proven to be a dead-end business as Sigfox and Telecoms are already dying for this kind of data fee models. HNT is just another telecom that brings this business to crypto.

The fragmentation of different Android devices is already a headache problem for app developers, that is why developers earn more profits in iOS. All I care about is in the future how profitable for developers to develop some real-world applications like real-NFT and AI camera for Web3.0 ecosystem. A discrete network that everyone puts its own amateur radio to communicate with each other and has no synchronization would be a disaster for developers and users.

The business model for MXC is to encourage more developers to build devices to work with the network, not to get the network itself diversified, since the robustness and stability are the key.

How Does Proof of Coverage Work?
Proof of Coverage is a major part of blockchain-backed communication networks in the beginning phases of a network’s implementation.

I hereby request HNT to stop this retarded and useless design as it pollutes the open spectrum that belongs to everyone. And I also see they recently thinking to give all these useless rewards to staking and reward people through staking not these kind of radio pollution. Kudos!

Open air spectrum belongs to everyone, while they use it for their reward calculations. The problem is no one pays for it, which means that is it not a sustainable model and after people got their hardware cost back, it is purely profit for the rest of life time. In PoW/PoS and MXC PoP design , you all have cost to maintain it either electricity bills or tokens locked as opportunity cost. But their model has no cost at all, it is the open spectrum users to bear the cost of someone else is polluting the radio.

MXC's PoP design enables people live in rural area in Nigeria to get the same amount of tokens like those who in Berlin as long as the keep it in good health status. That is a truly fair design for Web3.0 infrastructure, as everyone is maintaining it regardless of electricity price or economic inequity.

Helium is More “Open”
The Helium team has been very clear on their direction, and they are open about the issues they face. There also is quite a bit of active development occurring, and you, as an investor, are welcomed to participate. Helium has a GitHub dedicated to improvements (called HIPS), and you can even start up your HIP if you’d like. They also offer a coverage map that any user can contribute.

From what I see they just blocked 90% Chinese miners without their "HIP". I think for everyone in crypto makes no sense to discuss about "don't be evil". From the Etherscan people can see that the majority of the MXC tokens are in users hands, and the mining model is to move tokens from metaverse users to miners instead of getting an inflation model to increase supply all the time.

Also, check how shady this denylist from github: https://github.com/helium/denylist/issues

So with the tokens are on the users hands, and the motivation area on the users side to increase the usability and value, who should be more open? A project has most tokens on the project owners hands, say they are democratic and welcoming, what is their purpose behind that?

As such, Helium is not a secure, scalable platform.