Hello, A friend of mine gave me a Helium miner that has a Raspberry pi on it and it has a 915Mhz Lora radio on it. I love it But i always wonder if Arduino had anything on it or someone worked on something. So I searched online and sound out a site that someone made a Helium miner with arduino ans the same Lora radio. I sense Lost the page and can not find it in my history.
My question is for programming if anyone came across that page? I would like to see it again. I didn't get the sketch and library they posted.
Helium is a crypto coin that people mine using a Lora 916Mhz radio. However there are many 915mhz lora radios out there but the helium mine only use one of them other wont work. The processor is mostly a raspberry pi. However I think tehy converted some IOT devices to mine on it as well.
Just recently a month or two ago I saw someone got Arduino with that same speical 915mhz radio to work on the helium network to mine. Not as fast as if you are using a pi but it works.
It's not a scam, exactly. It's more of a sketchy plan to sell bandwidth on a distributed node network, supported by independently implemented and financed nodes.
Right now, most of the traffic is just network (status) traffic. So nobody is making any or very much money.
It costs about $800 to get in, you will likely never see that money come back. That depends on paying customers purchasing bandwidth on the network, but it offers little difference than the internet itself, functionally. In fact, it's very limited compared with the internet - slower, more expensive, and with a more limited geographical range.
Thanksall for the rely back. I'm looking more into the programming side. But the pi versions are costly. Not $800 dollars to get in or started as you would say but they are around $200 dollars per miner. They would mine faster then using a arduino such as a esp8266 or an esp32. The cost will be a lot less. I did read more.
They are using a 915Mhz Radio however it's not just using any 915Mhz radio It's just one chip a sx1278 one they are locked into. That much I do know, From what I'm reading online others have tried different versions of the 915mhz radio chip and doesn't work So far I found 7 different versions and only 1 of them got to work on the pi.
Being on the whole Pi and shortage still and Seeing that someone got arduino working on it is why I'm here.
The "mining speed" has nothing at all to do with the processor, from what I know. In Helium, it's about the number and distance of packets sent/received. That is mostly dependent on your radio, antenna, and location.
If it's not an outright scam, it's at best an illusion. It's a network of LORAWAN "hotspots" that nobody needs and nobody uses. People who made money early on only did so because of the compulsive bidding up of any cryptocurrency that comes along. It seems that if you put a tulip bulb on the table, people will feel compelled to speculate on its value.
But I hear Helium is now set to offer the same thing using 5G. So that would be an independent 5G network that nobody wants and nobody uses, but Helium will make a fortune selling the hotspots. Fool me once...
Evidently, they can't sell enough network time and nodes to legitimate users, so they use the "get rich with mining" lure.
Oh, and according to the video, the most likely uses for the Helium network would be in remote areas (agriculture, etc.) but the nodes are almost all in cities.
It could be considered as an infrastructure independent network, thus survive when there is a major internet outage. But the vast majority of nodes will go down with a power out because they have no redundant power source.
