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Month: February 2022

Next wave of fake Helium hotspots on Lantau island

Next wave of fake Helium hotspots on Lantau island

While the denylist has grow to 41,544 known fake hotspots in its latest version of 22 Feb 2022, the Helium location spoofing scam continues. After the previous 100 fake hotspots moved their location from Lantau island to the Philippines early

TomT 24/02/202225/02/2022 projects No Comments Read more

Helium LoRaWAN network – most active hotspots mapped (data packet traffic)

Helium LoRaWAN network – most active hotspots mapped (data packet traffic)

Looking for real Helium hotspots in Hong Kong, i started to wonder how much real data traffic the Helium network is seeing around the world. With a simple script accessing the Helium blockchain API i found out that out of

TomT 18/02/202219/02/2022 projects No Comments Read more

Finding real Helium hotspots in Hong Kong (part 1)

Finding real Helium hotspots in Hong Kong (part 1)

The Helium Explorer is mainly a tool for HNT miners, due to widespread location spoofing it does not show real network coverage (see previous posts and denylist). So in order to understand the real network coverage, i built a GPS

TomT 14/02/202228/04/2022 projects 1 Comment Read more

Getting fake Helium hotspots removed from Lantau island

Getting fake Helium hotspots removed from Lantau island

As shown before, much of the blockchain-powered Helium LoRaWAN network is fake, especially in Hong Kong. Scammers claim their hotspots are installed in these locations to earn HNT while in reality they are probably somewhere in a garage, not providing

TomT 09/02/202209/02/2022 projects No Comments Read more

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