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How to earn Helium for Free!

There have been a few posts here on PUBLISH0X on how to earn Helium by using one of their hotspots. I am not going to go into great detail on how to setup one up because there are a million of those guides out there and to be quick frank its really easy and straight forward.

What I do want to do is give my personal opinion on the Helium hotspot.

Helium background:

Helium is a network. It is a data network to be more exact. Think of it as bluetooth and 5G and GPS had a baby. It would be the Helium network.

They are trying to create a grid across the world of these little hotspots. It will allow companies like truck driving companies to keep track of resources across the globe utilizing 1 network to do it. The protocol they are using is something called LongFi. It is a super super far reaching signal like 2 miles far.

Physical Assets for Helium network:

For an everyday user you were able to buy something called a "Tab" so that you could keep track of the things you wanted. Like put 1 in your car and if it ever got stolen you could track it down.

Then there are the miners. You can currently buy the RAK Miner v3 for $300 USD. I know a few people here on Publish0x have bought a few of them.

But what I have is the original hotspot. The do not make it anymore but you can get one for free if your lucky! 

 

Now to the Crypto part:

There is a token called HNT that you can earn for setting up one of these "nodes" or "miners". You earn some HNT based on what your specific device relays to the network. So if you are in a big city where a lot of traffic is going on on the network then you will earn a lot. If you live in the middle of nowhere you won't earn a lot.

My personal experience:

I used a link from someone here on Publish0x to get in contact with Emerits. They are a company that has stocked piled a crap ton of the hotspots and if you are approved will send you one for free as long as you set it up and run it. Why they do this is because since they own the device you are simply letting them lease your house to run it from. So for whatever your miner makes each day/month they will take a cut. It's not a bad deal considering it's all free profit for you. It takes power to run obviously but as much power as a Raspberry Pi does.

This is my referral link to get your own for free: https://emrit.io/?referral=Tr0cPr0cL0ck 

I filled out the form and within 24 hours they called me and asked me to verify my information. Then they sent the hotspot and I got it within 2 weeks. I set it up and then setup the app/wallet. I have had it running for about 2 weeks now.

This is my dashboard:

As you can see by my earning Strength I am at 10%. That means there are not any other hotspots within 2 miles of me. You can zoom out of the map and see where are there others around you. And wouldn't you know it that there are a handful of hotspots real close to me but out of the 2 mile range. Just my luck.

The 25 HNT you see up top is the bonus you get for setting it up. 

For now I am not earning anything. I am waiting and hoping that more hotspots will pop up around me so that I can start earning more Helium. Until then I shall wait and see.

 

There is an option to request more Hotspot from Emerits. If you live close to your parents or kids, you could request a 2nd one and use that address and if it's within 2 miles you might have a lot better luck. You can not however run 2 hotspots from 1 location.

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