The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast

By Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi and guests discuss the fast-growing Helium network, providing worldwide coverage for mobile phones and IoT devices.... more

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The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.

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November 15, 202431. Return to HNT - HIP 138 (w/ JMF & triM)
JMF & triM join to discuss returning to a single token (HNT). Lean how we got here, why it's a critical move and how the HIP authors think it can be pulled off.
Read HIP 138: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0138-return-to-hnt.md
Follow James (JMF): https://x.com/JMFayal
Follow Matt (triM): https://x.com/thetrimdj
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 21min
March 15, 202330. Hivemapper (w/ Ariel Seidman)
Hivemapper CEO Ariel Seidman joins me to discuss one of the fastest-growing users of the Helium network, and explains how his long history in the mapping industry resulted in a Helium-like token model that quickly led to exponential dashcam adoption with drivers all over the world.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Hivemapper: https://www.hivemapper.com/
- Follow Ariel: https://twitter.com/aseidman
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 40min
December 13, 202229. Helium Therapy Session (Live)
An all-star cast of Helium community members including Nik Hawks (gristleking), Ed Ballou, Winston Lazar and Gary from Australia join me to reflect on the network's current issues and explore the boundless opportunities that most are overlooking.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 35min
September 08, 202228. HIP 70 Deep Dive (w/ Amir Haleem & Anatoly Yakovenko)
A discussion with founders and foundation members of Solana and Helium about HIP 70, the radical proposal to scale the Helium network. I moderate the panel and ask the community's most burning questions about what will change.
This is the most honest and compelling talk about HIP 70 yet, going deep into the root causes of why the Nova team thinks this proposal needs to happen.
00:00:00 Start
00:01:15 Intro & community recap
00:03:44 HIP 70 brief explanation
00:05:46 The road to HIP 70
00:12:52 Helium community skepticism about updates
00:16:35 Advantages of switching to a new L1
00:21:14 Difficulty of building L1
00:23:29 Importance of laser focus
00:26:41 Is Helium forfeiting its sovereignty?
00:30:33 Exploding community dev engagement
00:34:14 How long HIP 70 will take
00:42:17 How oracles affect decentralization
00:46:46 Validators unstaking timeline
00:57:04 IOT genesis snapshot timeline
00:58:00 IOT token launch timeline
00:58:54 Could HIP 70 be compromised?
01:00:16 Pros/cons of community governance
01:01:43 Why Solana, if it's unstable?
01:10:57 Better hotspot remote diagnostics?
01:14:23 How does veHNT work?
01:17:09 Impact on IOT/LoRaWAN routers?
01:21:51 Broken data packet accounting
01:22:50 Detailed breakdown of the L1 choice?
01:26:00 Closing thoughts
Check out the latest TL;DR on HIP 70 by Frank Mong: https://blog.helium.com/tl-dr-on-hip-70-hnt-ecosystem-would-expand-on-solana-abb123501765
And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/helium
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
- Follow Austin: https://twitter.com/Austin_Federa
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Joey: https://twitter.com/jhiller
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 29min
September 06, 202227. Helium + Solana And Network Scaling: HIP 70 (w/ Amir Haleem, Anatoly Yakovenko, Core Devs)
HIP 70 is a game changer for the scalability of the Helium Network. This episode is the ultimate educational resource about HIP 70, with commentary from both Helium founder Amir Haleem and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as the Nova Labs core dev team.
Learn more about the HIP on the Helium Foundation's blog: https://medium.com/helium-foundation/hip-70-helium-core-team-proposes-to-migrate-to-solana-e7ea23a042e7
And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/helium
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 38min
May 30, 202226. HIP 51-53 (Helium DAO) Live AMA
Helium DAO (HIP 51) is a proposal for a new, more flexible architecture to enable the Helium network's future growth. HIP 52-53 are the proposals for the IoT and Mobile subDAOs that fit under this umbrella.
In this episode, the authors of HIP 51, James Fayal, Abhay Kumar, and Tushar Jain, as well as Nova Labs CEO Amir Haleem, join for a live discussion to answer the community's questions about these wide-reaching improvements.
For an intro to HIP 51-53, check out this Twitter space recording: https://twitter.com/helium/status/1524408694829551617
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Tushar: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_
- Follow James: https://twitter.com/JMFayal
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 24min
May 18, 202225. Light Hotspots Upgrade Live AMA (w/ Nova Labs Team)
Light Hotspots have been live for a week. They arrived with growing pains, but the future is bright. The Nova Labs team, moderators, and community mentors join us to answer the community's questions about what comes next.
NOTE: It was mentioned on the call that a hotspot's connected validator would be shown on the explorer, which upon further investigation isn't possible. However, makers are looking to integrate this feature and it will be available on certain hotspot dashboards in the coming weeks. Check with your maker for more information.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 48min
May 09, 202224. Light Hotspots Activate! (w/ Coco Tang)
On May 11, Light Hotspots will finally go live! Coco Tang, Director of Product at Nova Labs, joins me for an action-packed conversation about how Light Hotspots will benefit the network, what activation day will look like and more.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow Coco: https://twitter.com/_cocotang
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
46min
May 02, 202223. Helium 5G Earnings Update (w/ Boris Renski and Abhay Kumar)
Nova Labs CPO Abhay Kumar and FreedomFi CEO Boris Renski join me to discuss the future of earning with Helium 5G hotspots. They share in-depth details on current progress and the latest cutting-edge development needed to make it all happen.
More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Watch FreedomFi transmit 5G data on Helium testnet in May 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2rhjeWiRK8
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Boris: https://twitter.com/zer0tweets
- Follow FreedomFi: https://twitter.com/Open5G
- Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
- Follow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
1h 13min
February 25, 202222. Helium Twitter Q&A
I answer your Twitter questions on Helium Network supply issues, blockchain bugs, balloon math and more.
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More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot?sid=youtube
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
Resources:
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57
Resources:
- Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
- Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
- Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
- Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
- Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
- Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade
...more
18min

FAQs about The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast:

How many episodes does The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.