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Here’s an example of a well-hyped, well-funded crypto startup being loose with words that have well-understood technical meaning outside of crypto.

> The "Helium 5G" network is instead a 4G LTE CBRS network, which right now has significant advantages over 5G but doesn't have the "5G" moniker Helium and its partners wanted for marketing. So it's just calling it 5G because, apparently, anyone can use any word to mean anything.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/is-heliums-new-5g-network-just-ho...

Helium was, until recently, one of the companies bound to come up if you asked around for real-world use cases of crypto.




Helium has given up on blockchains because they realized it added no value: https://medium.com/helium-foundation/hip-70-helium-core-team...

> In the current architecture, specific transactions, including Proof-of-Coverage and Data Transfer Accounting, are processed on-chain unnecessarily. This data bottleneck can cause efficiency issues such as device join delays and problems with data packet communications, which bloats the Network and causes slow processing times. HIP 70 proposes transferring these processes onto Oracles which will resolve these issues and further stabilize the Network.

There's a bunch of jargon, but for "Oracle" read "EC2 instance".


thought we were talking about open source community research. i'm not here to get into the debate of if crypto has a scam problem, it does. but that isn't research.


The comment you accused of “just saying things” was referring to crypto culture, rather than research specifically. I picked Helium because it was something that the web3 community glommed onto as a “successful” use case.


I wrote "no such logic [of adherence to formalized and academic research standards of claims and so on] .. doesn't exist in relation crypto culture."

I was clearly defining the entire practice of formal research as a null set within the crypto set.

Crypto culture is a compounds noun that's additive absent declination of sub distinction.

About Helium you assert that token has some kind to recognition and beau regard for- I really don't know what you're talking to but if I was sub editing your comments for clarity, I'd use the word Kudos. You claim this 5G access token has community kudos "glommed" or "attached to it" but in actually read the papers for Helium when first announced vector of investing adjacent to private 5G networks (UK Gov lets you drive truck throughout publishing network licenses awards since 2016) absolutely nothing but a more expensive convoluted and arbitrary code for the putative but barely functional exchange of on demand cellular next generation service.

If can possibly convey only one insight into what we're discussing to your everlasting benefit it sure would definitely be giving you a innate sense for why any discussions or even detailed research into things that you can build out of Lego isn't mathematical geometry or symmetry learning but model box picture building the prettiest parts you purchased.




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