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0 pointsdzhiurgis3y ago0 comments

FWIW I'd love to move away from "you must have a cell number to do ANYTHING in life". It's super inconvenient if you move between countries.

Example - local taxi app (Bolt) wouldn't even let me register. I'm guessing their SMS gateway doesn't support new number ranges I've got assigned. Engineers don't give a fuck to enable my mobility. I've spent weeks trying to get on.

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Canada3y ago

I'm not saying that the Helium idea of having this network of access points is bad. That's actually great, I wish there were such a thing.

What doesn't work is their token. Instead of having that they could have used a whitelist of acceptable payment... eg. ETH, USDT, USDC, DAI, WBTC, BTC...

But no, they had to have their own shitcoin of course, because if they used a cryptocurrency with actual value they wouldn't be able to give themselves a bunch of it to dump on the suckers.

tradertef3y ago

Agree 100%. Helium and similar project could very well work with other tokens or even with regular payments in dollars or whatever. But they choose to come up with their own shitcoin so that they could dump it to others with marketing.

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