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I want to hear your opinion on this.

I went to a place that happened to have deployed a Helium base.

My phone connected automatically and started using it for the internet. It was seamless and saved my battery. I was connected automatically because my wireless provider has a deal with Helium.

So I had a good experience as a result.

The business that deployed this Helium node made money because of the traffic they are getting. Paid by the users, in this case me. I did not pay, but my carrier did.

The business owner then sold the Helium tokens for Bitcoin.

My question is, where do we stand on useful shitcoins? 😂

#asknostr

Dikaios1517 2w ago 💬 1

The token used is arbitrary. They could have used Bitcoin for this if they had been inclined. Using Helium instead was a development choice that had nothing to do with its "usefulness."

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I3_I2_I_Z 2w ago 💬 1

Exactly - The way I see it now - If they are using their own coin, it's because they want control via their own money printer.

TKay 2w ago 💬 1

100% token not needed.

As nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 said, if you want to offer a hotspot running a Tollgate is better principally.

Dikaios1517 2w ago 💬 1

Tollgate is a different product entirely, since it is the user paying the wifi provider directly. There's no reason someone couldn't create something similar to what you described, where the cell phone company pays the wifi provider in Bitcoin whenever their customers use the wifi, though.