The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast

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

  1. 03/12/2025

    33. Inside Helium's Massive Movistar Deal: Mexico Expansion

    Mark Philips (VP of Business Development) and Mario Di Dio (GM of Network) from Nova Labs join us to discuss their landmark network usage deal with telecom giant Telefonica via their subsidiary Movistar in Mexico. We dive deep into this critical trial for the network and how it could spur growth with up to 2 million new subscribers roaming onto Helium. Deploy Hotspots in Mexico: https://helium.com/mexico Expansion Zones & Stats: https://world.helium.com Follow Mark: https://x.com/pharkmillups Follow Mario: https://x.com/didiomario 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    49 min

  2. 02/04/2025

    32. The World's First $0 Phone Plan: Helium Mobile

    Coco Tang from Helium Mobile joins to discuss the world's first TRULY FREE phone plan and 2 other freshly launched plans. Download the Helium Mobile app at https://onelink.to/ezw5cw and use code ARMAN for your $0 plan. Check out Helium Mobile: https://hellohelium.com/ Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    32 min

  3. 11/15/2024

    31. 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    1h 21m

  4. 03/15/2023

    30. 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. Learn more about Hivemapper: https://www.hivemapper.com/Follow Ariel: https://twitter.com/aseidman 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    1h 39m

  5. 12/13/2022

    29. 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. 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    1h 35m

  6. 09/08/2022

    28. 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 Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleemFollow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenkoFollow Austin: https://twitter.com/Austin_FederaFollow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhayFollow Joey: https://twitter.com/jhiller 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    1h 29m

  7. 09/06/2022

    27. 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 Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleemFollow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    1h 38m

  8. 05/30/2022

    26. 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 Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleemFollow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhayFollow Tushar: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_Follow James: https://twitter.com/JMFayal 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/id1524379293Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvybYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpodAmazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57Resources: Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaanFollow Helium: https://x.com/heliumFollow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndnFollow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobileLearn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

    1h 24m
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Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi and guests discuss the fast-growing Helium network, providing worldwide coverage for mobile phones and IoT devices.

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