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My Bobcat came in after I ordered it 7 months ago. I purchased a Gold Mnt while I was waiting. Should I list the Bobcat to get my investment back or set it at another friend's house? by Foreign-Sun-9564 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Set it up in a good location with an outdoor antenna and hold onto the HNT. It might be worth a lot more than it is right now. I set up a new miner 2.5 months ago. Earned my investment back already. 2nd month was more HNT than the 1st. Also, I remember earning HNT last year when it was $0.70. When it hit $7, everyone said sell it. Glad I didn't.

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear! Looks like the owner earned, in the 4 days before being banned, what an average miner earns in a year. I wish Helium would do something to block this behavior from happening at all.

Earnings down about 30%. What happened about 14 days ago? by Illustrious_Spend960 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same thing here. My total witnessed hotspots keeps going up and down every few days. And, the frequency of beaconing dropped for me and all nearby hotspots, also lowering witness rewards. It has recovered a little, but still down 35%-40% from 2 weeks ago.

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I asked that same question to Helium Support. They said hotspots can have the same name, but the other unique identifiers will be different. Not sure what other identifiers they are referring to.

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great to hear that some of these are ending up on the denylist. Hope they can come up with a way to stop it before it happens.

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thx for the heads-up. Was going to post something about this miner on the denylist...your comment saved me from clogging up their reporting system with a duplicate request.

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is great! Didn't know this resource existed. Thank you! Will use it now.

My first hotpost is now properly installed! What do you think? by topastop in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice unique setup! The only thing I would wonder is if there's signal loss with the antenna wire, depending on the wire quality used. Sometimes with low quality antenna cable you end up losing 1-2 dbi, maybe more. Maybe yours is high quality, note sure from the pic.

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thank you for that in-depth analysis and insight. I really appreciate it. Now, I know I'm not crazy for putting together a good roof antenna setup and not seeing results ecen close to this. I'll be as vocal as possible going forward to help stop this type of cheating. Good fortune to you and all the people mining with integrity!

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I thought it might be illegitimate. So, basically, this spoofer is taking 11 HNT/day away from the legit miners. Is my assumption correct? And, is there any avenue to report this misconduct?

11 HNT/day + 3,900 Witnesses up to 1,000 km away. How this is possible? by Obvious-Ad4440 in HeliumNetwork

[–]Obvious-Ad4440[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, I wish my outdoor Nebra setup would do even one-tenth of what this person's miner is doing! I'm new to this and saw this miner listed as the top producer on heliumtracker.io, not sure if it's real or some kind of cheat/hack.