The People’s Network allows anyone to earn a new cryptocurrency, HNT, by building out a massive decentralised wireless network.

Helium

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Key Components

System Overview

Introduction

Participants

Blockchain

Physical Implementation

Motivation

Outline

Implementation

Wireless Protocol (WHIP)

Hotspots

Devices

Routers

The Helium DWN

Inspiration

Selecting the Initial Target

Constructing the multi-layer challenge

Creating the Proof

Scoring

Target Selection

Verifying the Proof

Constructing Proof-of-Coverage

Utilizing the Proven Time

Constructing Proof-of-Serialization

Proof-of-Coverage and Proof-of-Serialization

Precise timestamping of RF data

Using timestamps to derive location

Verifying Proof-of-Location

Constructing Proof-of-Location

Proof-of-Location

The Helium Nework's Need for Microtransactions

Limitations of Existing Solutions

Transport Fees

Transaction Fees

Staking Fees

Types of Fees in Helium

Primitives in The Helium Network

Light Clients and Full Nodes

Transactions

HBFT

Applying Proof-of-Coverage to HBFT

The consensus group

The mining process

Conclusion

Helium Consensus Protocol

Future Work

Helium - A Decentralized Wireless Network

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