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Helium Growth Exploding Above All DePINs🚀INTERVIEW · The Paul Barron Crypto Show

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  Speaker 1: Helium Mobile could be setting up for a mainstream entry today.
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  Speaker 1: a gentleman from the Helium Network. One of the things
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  Speaker 1: we want to do is really kind of explain how
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  Speaker 1: this network is growing. Helium Mobile has really started to
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  Speaker 1: set the stage I think for growth. So we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have Mario the DEO join us from Helium Network.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Mario, very good, Hypaul, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: having us. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: So I've had Frank. I've had Frank on many times.
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  Speaker 1: He and I kind of go back and forth talking
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  Speaker 1: about the growth of Helium Network, and you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: very we're very in tune with what you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to kind of showcase a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in the market. When you look right
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  Speaker 1: now in the Salona deep end scenario. These are all
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  Speaker 1: the different deepen chains out there, and I'll kind of
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  Speaker 1: zoom in on this right here so people can really
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  Speaker 1: see Helium is now getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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  Speaker 1: So as far as a decentralized physical infrastructure network, which
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  Speaker 1: is what the mobile effort that you guys are doing,
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  Speaker 1: the growth is definitely happening. Do you feel like this
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  Speaker 1: is a effort from the marketing team. Is it something
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  Speaker 1: that people are just starting to discover Helium Mobile. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you think we're seeing this amount of growth right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely great to see the growth. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's very hard to attribute growth to a single factor.
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  Speaker 2: I think that primarily is few things. Adelium We've been
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  Speaker 2: working very hard on both sides of the equation of
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  Speaker 2: both on the supply what it calls supply and demand side.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we do have Helium Mobile, which is
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  Speaker 2: our carrier, our phone plan, and lots of effort is
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  Speaker 2: being going there for acquired subscribers. That is accelerating really
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  Speaker 2: really greatly. On the other end, on the network side
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  Speaker 2: as well, for people that deploy the network, that deploy
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  Speaker 2: our hostspot for everybody you know, just you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have this device is called Helium Hospitals. There act like
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  Speaker 2: a mini cell tower with people connected to it when
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  Speaker 2: you're nearby. You know, we've been working with other carriers
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  Speaker 2: in US and in Mexico to bring more and more
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  Speaker 2: demand into the network. So one end, you have subscriber growth.
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  Speaker 2: On the Healum Mobile side, we have more carrier sigilizing
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  Speaker 2: the network ends, creating more supply of hospitals being deployed.
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  Speaker 2: So also when network you know, it's being more. We
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  Speaker 2: have more than ninety thousand notes today. So I think
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the equation have been working really well
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  Speaker 2: together for contributed to the growth of the protocol as
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  Speaker 2: a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I think if you look at just the newly
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  Speaker 1: minted Helium Mobile subscribers, this is happening. When you see
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  Speaker 1: an NFT coming on board, you can kind of see
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  Speaker 1: the growth has continued to be up into the right.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously since you guys started the free plan, I think
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  Speaker 1: most likely we've seen the amount of growth. You can
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  Speaker 1: kind of see the NFT growth also climbing. And again
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  Speaker 1: this is a huge entry into the space of maybe
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  Speaker 1: bringing Helium Mobile into the mainstream. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take for you know, the average mobile
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  Speaker 1: user to truly say, all right, this is an alternative
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  Speaker 1: I can use for a mobile device. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to take for you guys to grow
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  Speaker 1: into that level?
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  Speaker 2: I think this kudos. Actually, I am going to the
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  Speaker 2: marketing team and Frank the working there. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the value proposition of course with the free plan and
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  Speaker 2: there has been an acceleration into their growth, and I
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  Speaker 2: think the value proposition is becoming more closer and closer
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  Speaker 2: also to non crypto native personas. So I think what
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  Speaker 2: is going to take for it's more about sustaining their growth,
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  Speaker 2: is to continuing on the path of making cryptod engine
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  Speaker 2: that runs the network, but not necessarily the primary thing
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  Speaker 2: for people to join the network. So this is true
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  Speaker 2: for both the healing mobile subs as well as people
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  Speaker 2: you know deploying hospitals. Today we're having value propositions for
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  Speaker 2: coffee shop owners, shopping malls, or restaurant owners that not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily are deep into crypto, but they connect with the
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  Speaker 2: idea of being connected at all times. So the more
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  Speaker 2: this value proposition become easier to accessible, the easier it
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  Speaker 2: will be to sustain their growth.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's going to be one of the
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  Speaker 1: things I'm watching in terms of the ability for the
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  Speaker 1: network to scale. Is there any limitations on how big
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  Speaker 1: Helium network could become. I'm looking at the post from
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  Speaker 1: you guys. This is in reference to the AT and
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  Speaker 1: T News subscribers can now connect with people powered Heal
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  Speaker 1: network across America. So this is all leveraging the AT
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  Speaker 1: and T network. So this will cover quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: in terms of expansion. In terms of the deal that
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  Speaker 1: you did with AT and T. Every cell that's out
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  Speaker 1: there that's an AT and T tower, is that going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the network now for Helium? Would I
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  Speaker 1: be able to use the entire AT and T network
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  Speaker 1: the way it's so used right now.
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  Speaker 2: So what the deal consists of is the ability for
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  Speaker 2: AIGHT and T subscribers, so people that have eight and
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  Speaker 2: T SIM cards to connect to Helium hotspots. So if
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  Speaker 2: your hospital is in on location that gets selected from
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  Speaker 2: AD and T old the AT and T subscribers around
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  Speaker 2: their hospot, just like I say, like a mini cell
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  Speaker 2: tower will be automatically connected to the hospital. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the growth is I mean, we're just getting started because
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  Speaker 2: if you think about how many I think it's undred
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  Speaker 2: fifty million or something like that users AT ANDTS in
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  Speaker 2: the US compared to the size of our network, there
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  Speaker 2: is definitely the opportunity to grow the network to capture
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  Speaker 2: as many as possible of those eight and D subscribers.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, this is just the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at one of the reasons I
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  Speaker 1: think that this is going to continue to grow as
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  Speaker 1: your referral program. This is, of course, I know, is
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  Speaker 1: more on the marketing side, but where you guys are
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  Speaker 1: doing a refer a friend program and then it has
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  Speaker 1: layers deep within it. So this in itself is pretty creative.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you guys have done the zero free plan, very creative.
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  Speaker 1: We've actually tested some of these free plans and they
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  Speaker 1: actually I was surprised that they work just like anything else.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, because sometimes say listen free is always questioned.
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  Speaker 1: But the idea is is that we're probably gonna see
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  Speaker 1: a lot more users coming on to the network, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that that in itself is presenting a very interesting,
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  Speaker 1: you know landscape in general. Are you finding people utilizing
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  Speaker 1: the network right now? Are they using it as a
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  Speaker 1: secondary device or is there any data out there that
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  Speaker 1: says no, they're they're actually using it as their primary device.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean definitely. What we see is that when
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  Speaker 2: with a free plan, it makes it very easy to
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  Speaker 2: board as a secondary device first then poured later. So
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  Speaker 2: we do have people that are don't poort their number
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  Speaker 2: right the way, but being with a free and actually
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  Speaker 2: just have a conversation with someone. I was on a
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  Speaker 2: conference just two days ago, and the guy in the
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  Speaker 2: back might giving me the mic. He show me how
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  Speaker 2: he became a really mobile sublet just a few days before,
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  Speaker 2: which is always great to see, Like regular people just
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  Speaker 2: just know about brand the Wi Fi confidence. But what
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  Speaker 2: he was saying is that it's a secondary. It seems
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  Speaker 2: the way they get started because it's easy and the
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  Speaker 2: majority of the device support that, and then once they
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  Speaker 2: know that the system works, the network works, then they
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  Speaker 2: can import. They feel more comfortable in importing the number over.
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  Speaker 2: So definitely the secondary seem it's a It's a very
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  Speaker 2: interesting entry level when you compare when you put it
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  Speaker 2: together with the free plan.
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  Speaker 1: I think that once Frank starts figuring out a marketing
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  Speaker 1: tactic that can get into families because right now that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest growth sectors for AT and T
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  Speaker 1: T Mobile is family plans. And we do okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we do have How does that work? It's the same
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing if I had one primary and you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to put two kids on as the free plans,
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  Speaker 1: would you be able to do that right now? Within
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  Speaker 1: the Helium network.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know all the fully details about the
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  Speaker 2: group plants as you say, it's but I'm more on
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  Speaker 2: the network side of things. But that is we do
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  Speaker 2: support group plans, and there is the ability to essentially
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  Speaker 2: multiple people under an account, which is you're right, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the biggest value propositions for people when they
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  Speaker 2: connect to a carrier. So that's definitely one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I know Coco, which is more respectable on
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  Speaker 2: the Healing Mobile size been working on pretty diligently.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about data credits all right, and Helium data
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  Speaker 1: credits are burned for onboard asserts, So it looks like
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  Speaker 1: when you onboard someone, there's a certain amount of data
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  Speaker 1: credits that are burned. What is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: value of data credits and what are they?
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  Speaker 2: It's a great question. Actually I wanted to add that
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  Speaker 2: is there's a one category, so we burned out the
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  Speaker 2: credits and will get in a second for onboarding assert
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  Speaker 2: but also for data transfer to actually for fueling out
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  Speaker 2: that we actually burned in the order of like almost
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  Speaker 2: twenty a day in data credits. So what that words
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  Speaker 2: are is is the idea that the you use the
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  Speaker 2: token as a utility so that whenever there is an
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  Speaker 2: action on there needs to be performed on chain. For example,
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  Speaker 2: a new user gets at a new Healum Mobile SAP,
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  Speaker 2: a new NFT gets minted, or a new hostpot gets
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  Speaker 2: onboarded into the network, or if I need, if the
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  Speaker 2: network needs to pay out a one gigabio traffic that
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  Speaker 2: gets transferred over a certain network. For all of this action,
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  Speaker 2: there is a buyer that essentially takes h and T
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  Speaker 2: Healum netwrotokens creates data credits from h IN and then
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  Speaker 2: they get burned and they get burnt cleaning this different
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  Speaker 2: deflectionary action on the on the supply, on the total
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  Speaker 2: supply of the tokens. So today in that exact chart
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  Speaker 2: that you were showing, there is also all we move
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  Speaker 2: more than twenty terabytes a day inside our Healum network.
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  Speaker 2: Those are for example lad In Ta subscribers, so Helum
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  Speaker 2: Mobile subscribers connected to the network. And so for each
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  Speaker 2: single one of those tertabytes a gigabyte to get transfer
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  Speaker 2: over the network, there is an equivalent amount of each
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  Speaker 2: indeed that gets converted in data credit and then it
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  Speaker 2: gets burned. Of course this counts from the carriers that
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  Speaker 2: buy the data on the network. That's the deal that
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  Speaker 2: with AVT, and in a way we at a healing
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  Speaker 2: we act as on the network side of things, we
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  Speaker 2: act as an anti intermediary between like the traditional taco
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  Speaker 2: model in which you might pay for offload data in
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  Speaker 2: a traditional fiat and we use that interface and then
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  Speaker 2: we turn into the blockchain as an intermediary between these
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  Speaker 2: two worlds.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well I think with that, I think
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the things that kind of separates
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  Speaker 1: Helium from you know, obviously traditional networks. The growth though
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  Speaker 1: that could be coming into it. We're watching the Salona
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  Speaker 1: Seeker release, which could be happening, you know, anytime now.
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  Speaker 1: I know Solon is holding a big event in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, but if you look at Salona Ross Roads,
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: they were talking about the Seeker phone being kind of
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  Speaker 1: debuted there, so you actually got a chance to see it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like one hundred and fifty thousand of these.
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  Speaker 1: So if we get this dropped in May and we
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  Speaker 1: see start you know, shipping starting on the Seekers, this
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  Speaker 1: could immediately affect the amount of subscribers. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: go back to the subscriber chart, let me go over
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  Speaker 1: and pull that up real quick, this is the number
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  Speaker 1: of subscribers right now that you're what is that like
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred and fifty k. I mean literally you
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  Speaker 1: could almost double your subscribers. Now, granted that's if every
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  Speaker 1: Salona seeker went on to Helium, but I would say
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  Speaker 1: quite a few might choose Helium. So that's going to
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  Speaker 1: give you an immediate jettison into subscriber growth. Are you
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  Speaker 1: guys ready for that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're definitely ready for it. And I with all
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  Speaker 2: disclosing things, but you know, we you know Solana Helium
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  Speaker 2: is built on top of Solana, so there is definitely
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  Speaker 2: strongly Helium and Solana in many ways, and you know
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  Speaker 2: the ability for them to ship perforone UH and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's directly correlated with the Taco space where we operate.
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  Speaker 2: So we definitely see the potential there for all these
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  Speaker 2: new phone phone holder to become Healing Mobile subscribers and
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  Speaker 2: to UH and to to you know, to utilize the network.
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  Speaker 2: But again going back to the announcement that we talk
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  Speaker 2: about it in t even if now you have an
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  Speaker 2: ad Int SYNCRD in a Solana sickerphone that will also
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  Speaker 2: be taking care of from the Helium network. That's the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of this multi tenancy of the network that we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: We are able to capture the ideas here to expand
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  Speaker 2: the network, the growth of the network, to capture to
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  Speaker 2: capture as many subscribers, as many people as we can
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  Speaker 2: like today, there's an interesting stat and I know if
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  Speaker 2: you you stow on our website as well. We touch
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  Speaker 2: almost nearly a million users a day in the US.
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  Speaker 2: We have a million daily active users. Those are people
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  Speaker 2: that the network connects every single day. So beyond healing
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  Speaker 2: mobile subscribers, we working with the D and T, We're
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: working with another mobile network Copereto or other mbnos. So
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  Speaker 2: because of all this partnership that Ifonic in Mexico, we're
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  Speaker 2: able to extend the reach of the network to touch
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  Speaker 2: and have this type of deli active user being our
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  Speaker 2: north star when we evaluate the growth of the network.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on your website right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: Cool thing And we talked to Frank about this the
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  Speaker 1: last time. The cloud points. I have some questions for
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  Speaker 1: you on that in a minute. Definitely, the three different
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  Speaker 1: plans that are out there, these are fantastic. I actually
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  Speaker 1: have a Helium couple of Helium phones right now and
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  Speaker 1: they work the same as regular I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't believe it when I tell them, Hey,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: this is a free cell phone plan. And they're like,
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  Speaker 1: no way, and I'm like, yeah, this is how it works.
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  Speaker 1: This is how crypto is going to revolutionize the world.
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  Speaker 1: But you look at some of the things that are
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  Speaker 1: going on right now in terms of points, because I
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  Speaker 1: think that's another killer app with Helium cloud points. This
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: was coming over from Helium modim. They were just kind
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: of showing an example of how you could give someone
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  Speaker 1: something like, in this particular case, a target gift card.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something that I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't realize just yet. When this starts to really scale,
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  Speaker 1: where users are really earning cloud points, getting the capacity
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  Speaker 1: of being able to really grow the network. Are you
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  Speaker 1: guys prepared for this? Is there a lot of new
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: merchants and things like that coming on? Give me a
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  Speaker 1: rundown there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you're definitely ready for it. Like and again,
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  Speaker 2: as much as I I know that close the probably
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  Speaker 2: to some of the marketing things that Frank and the
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: team are preparing. But yeah, the cloud points was a
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  Speaker 2: I think a very resounding success in the value proposition.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're right because it created this like utility
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  Speaker 2: for regular people that not necessarily are in the crypto space.
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  Speaker 2: As first thought to participate to get to get an
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: instant value back from the network with the referal program
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  Speaker 2: is also very good for that too. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean think what we're probably gonna see. We're gonna see
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  Speaker 2: unaccess generation and even more leaning into the cloud points
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  Speaker 2: because we do see a great, great response from the
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  Speaker 2: subscriber base to the body prop no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: This is another tweet right here. I got access to
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  Speaker 1: the cloud points panel. This is a good example. We
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  Speaker 1: kind of showed it there. Where as your points can
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  Speaker 1: get redeemed for different retailers, in this particular case they're
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  Speaker 1: showing target. But that's one that is coming up. I
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  Speaker 1: think when I look at at the cloud points and
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  Speaker 1: I actually wanted to ask you this question. This is
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  Speaker 1: one to Frank because this was a question we had
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  Speaker 1: in reference of earning cloud points versus earning H and
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  Speaker 1: T so and being able to switch between the two
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  Speaker 1: and Frank and I kind of went back and forth
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  Speaker 1: of you need a button. We wanted it to be
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the PBN button where you just say cloud points are
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  Speaker 1: H and T, cloud points are H and T. Any
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  Speaker 1: kind of development happening in terms of being able to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Look, as I said, I think we do see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of growth into the into the subscribe based
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  Speaker 2: because of those traditional cloud points and gift card. We
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: always adapt our body prop polways adap. So I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be surprised if in the future that becomes a thing
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: which you can you know, decide which one do you want.
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  Speaker 2: But in general we also want to you know, the
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: growth the fact that the blockchain is indeed in the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: background of all this because of the way the chain work,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: and for everybody, I know, if everybody knows about this,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: but you know, when you on board a subscriber, you
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: have an FT but also as a free plan, if
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you're opting into your location sharing what we call discovery mapping,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: then right there is some that also gets on chain
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: that information that's actually what enables the cloud point. So
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I think that for now we see more and more
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: of those cloud points. But I can I can I
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: can see why in the future when not in the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: future will be more flexible towards that type of abrimodels.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: What about like v Bucks swapping, where you'd be able
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: to swap the cloud points. Let's say you have some
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: target cloud points, you know, swap it for a Starbucks,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of thing. Anything that I'd be able
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: to do within the network right right now, all.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Those things are in the pipeline, that pipeline to potentially.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I yes, all right, last point I wanted to get to,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and that is, first of all, I'm looking at your
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: your mascot. This is a cloud cloud Bob right there,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: And I'm looking at cloud Bob and I just can't
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: help but think this should be a meme coin, this
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: mean coin. I mean, come on, for you guys that're
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: out there building meme coins right now, the cloud Bob
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: is perfect for a mean coin. Why doesn't Helium have
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: a meme coin? We need a Helium meme coin, yues.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're also so focused on creative real value.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I think that's that we leave that to someone else
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: to do it. I think you're right. It's kind of
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: a cute thing. I can't even it was funny because
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: we did create a generative AI like a stuff cloud
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Bob image. Immediately we go like tens and tensive requests
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: for like buying you know the store, like, oh.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: The whole thing, Yeah, you know the.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Crypto twitter by you know, by their own like really
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: really like it. But yes, yeah, I mean maybe someone
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: should do something like that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well there you go, guys. I'm watching your
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: cloud store very heavily because I think as you guys
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: get more and more partners, just to show our audience
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, there's some fairly significant retailers
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that are coming online here. You've got Uberlyft, Airbnb, et cetera.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: And many of these some of them are available now.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I know some of them are not but are coming.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: But a lot of this definitely into the mainstream. If
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we see more of that, this is only gonna increase.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I think the benefit of being a Helium member for sure. Mario,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it's been great having you on the show. Thank you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: so much for coming in. Next time I talk to you,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm expecting to see over five hundred thousand users on
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the Helium Network.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Oh well, we'd be there for that, celebrating you so much.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: For it, all right, you bet, thank you again. Appreciate
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