Today begins the next era of the Helium Network. We're live now with a leadership update, a refreshed vision, and a governance proposal for the community to decide on. Watch: https://t.co/PhelZ9RH65
Mario Di Dio (@didiomario) is stepping in as CEO and our founder, Amir Haleem (@amirhaleem), is moving to Chairman after over a decade building Helium from an idea into a Network millions connect through every day. Read the full story: https://t.co/ZO0ht9F52O
Wireless is a trillion-dollar industry that’s cutting spend while demand keeps climbing. Indoor coverage is spotty, dense areas lack redundancy, and emergency services can't hop between networks. Helium is rebuilding it as an intelligent global infrastructure platform. A once-in-a-generation shift.
With our consumer business in good hands at Noble Mobile, Helium can focus fully on the bigger opportunity: our Network business. Serving several carriers and growing, it carries verified traffic for millions, burns $HNT based on use, and is owned by those who deploy it.
Today we're publishing a governance proposal to capitalize the opportunity, shift to utility-based rewards, support deployers with a floor, and add a community-elected oversight council.
Read it in full: https://t.co/rysDRBNIlN
Shorter explainer here: https://t.co/zRgmgAateg
This is a community decision, and we want the hard questions. Join Mario live now, then a Q&A at 3pm ET, with more sessions to follow. We'll be in Discord throughout: https://t.co/dKvHo3If0r
@MichaelRCaputo Imagine being Senator Jon Woods and learning that the lead FBI agent admitted to destroying evidence during his case YEARS after he was sentenced and still hasn't been pardoned by @realDonaldTrump or @DAGToddBlanche.
https://t.co/RmjsQM5sOX
FBI Agent Robert Cessario Who Destroyed Computer Evidence Against Trump-Supporting Lawmaker Gets 3 Years Probation – While GOP Lawmaker Rots in Prison for 18 Years https://t.co/Kz2QYvSyGK
@laralogan@MichaelRCaputo Imagine being Senator Jon Woods and learning that the lead FBI agent admitted to destroying evidence during his case YEARS after he was sentenced and still hasn't been pardoned by @realDonaldTrump or @DAGToddBlanche.
https://t.co/RmjsQM5sOX
FBI Agent Robert Cessario Who Destroyed Computer Evidence Against Trump-Supporting Lawmaker Gets 3 Years Probation – While GOP Lawmaker Rots in Prison for 18 Years https://t.co/Kz2QYvSyGK
@AliceMarieFree@POTUS The day isn't over yet then to pardon Arkansas Senator Jon Woods. Years after being sentenced to prison the lead FBI agent pled guilty to destroying evidence in his case, yet justice has not been served!!!! He should have been the first one out!
https://t.co/RmjsQM5sOX
FBI Agent Robert Cessario Who Destroyed Computer Evidence Against Trump-Supporting Lawmaker Gets 3 Years Probation – While GOP Lawmaker Rots in Prison for 18 Years https://t.co/Kz2QYvSyGK
A former #FBI agent is requesting that an Arkansas federal judge give him a year of probation after he pleaded guilty to destroying evidence while investigating a #Corruption case against Republican Arkansas State Sen. Jon Woods. https://t.co/jYIYKy8iTQ
.@Jim_Jordan@RepDanBishop@SarahHuckabee
A former FBI agent who was court ordered to turn over his laptop, admitted to twice wiping it clean & purposely destroying evidence that could've been used in defense of former Arkansas state senator, Jon Woods, who's sentenced to 18 yrs.
Arkansas’s former State Senator Jon Woods was a staunch ally and supporter of President Trump. He was even the first elected official in Arkansas to endorse Trump in 2016.
Last week Météo-France filed a criminal complaint. The target: whoever held a hair dryer to a weather sensor at Charles de Gaulle airport.
Twice in April, that sensor briefly read 22°C in an 18°C afternoon. Twice, a Polymarket user had wagered exactly these numbers. Payouts: $14,000 and $20,000. Polymarket switched its Paris settlement to Le Bourget and refused refunds. CNN, Le Monde, Reuters and Euronews all ran the story.
The hair dryer is the funny part. The architectural failure underneath is what nobody is talking about clearly enough.
This is not a Polymarket scandal. It is a weather-data scandal. The bets are how we found out.
One Météo-France sensor at Roissy was both the official Paris temperature and Polymarket's settlement source. No cryptographic signature. No real-time cross-check. Mains power, network connection, admin console accessible to staff. The trust model collapsed at every seam but until recently, no one had a financial reason to attack a thermometer.
The hair dryer is the lowest-cost version of this attack. As our CEO pointed out an insider with admin access at any met agency could alter data without ever touching a sensor. Hair dryers are loud. Database queries are not.
https://t.co/f8k3vhxutc
Weather data has stopped being just a public good. It is now the settlement layer for an economy: parametric insurance, energy contracts, agricultural payouts, emergency response, prediction markets. The hair dryer exposed a $34,000 mistake. The same architecture moves decisions a thousand times that size.
This is the failure mode WeatherXM was built to remove.
Every reading is signed at source by a secure element on the device. A hair dryer can still warm a sensor but it cannot forge a signature.
We never settle anything important on a single station. 9,600+ stations across 98 countries, in clusters and verifiable maths, never single points of trust.
Every reading is cross-checked against neighbouring stations and third-party data. Anomalies get flagged or discarded by our quality of data filters (QoD).
Our WiFi & Celular stations are energy autonomous, solar powered. No mains plug, super easy to deploy.
Our H2 station takes it one step further, using @helium IoT / LoRaWAN operates with decentralized wireless infrastructure that the community or customers can expand on demand to cover areas that lack celular coverage. Data is on decentralized file systems @IPFS@Filecoin@AkaveCloud and QoD based rewards are blockchain merkle-trees anyone can audit.
The fix is not to regulate prediction markets harder. It is to stop trusting infrastructure that was never designed for adversaries. Build the verification into the data itself and adopt decentralized, trusteless approaches in the traditional weather industry too, as it seems we are gonna need it more than ever in the comming future.
The world has changed.
The traditional weather data layer needs to change too!
@dangambardello This is just another indicator that you are a great father and a great husband. If I were in the trenches, I would want somebody like you with me.
FBI agent Robert Cessario pleads guilty to destroying evidence to frame pro-trump political prisoner.
“I erased the contents of the computer hard knowing that the court has ordered that the computer be submitted for a forensic examination…”