What are the options for these miners now?

I can’t seem to send SOL from my black helium wallet. Is anyone else having difficulty?

Looks like its not just me, but every miner I have checked has not earned anything in over 7 days.

What happened this time?

I feel like we coukd get significantly more carrier offload if self setup was eligible

Since my Bobcat miners are no longer allowed to mine the Pennie's a month any longer I had no choice but to transfer the crypto I have into my Coinbase wallet. Problem is, it won't let me. I get to the point of sliding the thing after every thing is in place and it just slides back. Yes I have 10 HNT = $2 to pay for the transaction. Suggestions!

Does anyone know where I could trade my two RAK wireless MNTD miners? I also have two 5db antennas. I’m not receiving any rewards because of the lack of activity in my area.

Well my hotspot is basically dead now what else can I use this thing for?

Hi everyone,

This is probably a long shot, but I figured it's worth trying.

I recently picked up a Bobcat Miner 300 from a flea market in Romania. After getting it up and running, I found out it's the hotspot "Clever Marmalade Pigeon", which used to be located in Brønshøj, Copenhagen.

The hardware works perfectly, but the hotspot is still linked to the previous owner's wallet, so I can't update the location or use it.

If by any chance you're the owner, or you know who is, I'd really appreciate getting in touch. I'm happy to cover any fees needed to transfer the hotspot.

I know the chances are pretty slim, but I'd rather try than let a perfectly good miner sit on a shelf.

Thanks!

With the new hnt proposal passing you expect the price of hnt go up or at least stabilize?

Curious to see what the miners are being reused for.

I've had a rack miner running since 2022. When I enter my 12 word recovery, nothing happens. Any suggestions?

I have an old RAK and bobcat from years ago. Can they be used for anything else besides this?

I've done my calculations and, with such enormous dilution, we'll never see prices higher than $3 again. Even if we get entriprise adoption by 2030.

Are we dead?
Will this get passed?
What happens to early investors?

Hello everyone,

I am currently trying to locate historical Bobcat Miner and MugglePay documentation from May 2021 for an ongoing legal review.

Specifically, I am looking for:

Bobcat Miner Terms & Conditions (May 2021)

MugglePay Terms & Conditions (May 2021)

Bobcat order confirmations

MugglePay payment confirmations

Checkout screenshots

Archived PDFs, emails, or web pages from that period

In May 2021 I purchased a Bobcat Miner through MugglePay and accidentally sent ERC-20 USDT instead of USDC. The funds were successfully received on-chain but the payment was never credited.

Unfortunately, the email account containing my original order confirmations and correspondence was permanently deleted years ago.

If anyone purchased a Bobcat Miner through MugglePay around May 2021 and still has copies of emails, PDFs, screenshots, archived terms, or related documentation, I would be extremely grateful.

Please reply here or send me a private message.

Thank you very much for any help.

I just unplugged my indoor hotspot.

I live in a large apartment complex next to a bar so I made significantly more than my small investment. This was a fun hobby that happened to pay off! A cheap router connected to my network doesn’t seem worth the rate they’re currently “paying” in a crypto currency.

I hope you got in early or are in a higher traffic area. Best of luck!

Has anyone tried to repurpose the helium wifi hotspots?
Anyone knows what’s inside that could be scraped?

I’ve got one of the original Helium Outdoor Wi‑Fi Hotspots (the weatherproof unit sold directly by Helium/Nova Labs). I’ve been using it as a normal Wi‑Fi hotspot for 2 years with zero issues.

Yesterday I installed a new TP‑Link AX1800 router. Ever since then, the hotspot’s Wi‑Fi still broadcasts, my phone sees the SSID, but never authenticates or connects.

Here’s what’s weird:

• The hotspot is online and earning
• The SSID is still visible
• My Helium app only shows blockchain options (Reassert, Transfer, Share Rewards)
• No Wi‑Fi settings appear in the app
• The hotspot’s local IP refuses to load (connection refused)
• Restarting the phone, router, and hotspot does nothing
• This hotspot has no external reset button — only the Ethernet port is visible
• It worked the day before the router change

From what I can tell, the Outdoor Hotspot acts like a router-class device (NAT + DHCP). When the upstream router changes, it sometimes corrupts its Wi‑Fi authentication table and gets stuck broadcasting but refusing connections.

My questions for anyone who owns this same outdoor unit:

• Has your Outdoor Hotspot ever locked up like this after a router change
• Did it eventually reset itself after 12–48 hours
• Or did you have to take it down, open the enclosure, and press the internal reset button on the board
• Is there any way to reset this thing without climbing up and opening the housing

Trying to figure out if I should wait it out or go up there and crack the enclosure open. Any real-world experience would help.

I have this MNTD Upgrade Kit never opened. Idk what it is or what’s it worth. I need help figuring out. Thanks

Hi so I only log on with my wallet.. I have no email tied to my account. How do migrate my miners to the new system?? Help please 🙏🏾

USD Paid per GB collapsed from ~$0.50 to under $0.10

USD Rewards per GB is now at the abysmally low $0.06, making it economically unfeasible to even contemplate deploying another hotspot.

https://blockworks.com/analytics/helium/helium-mobile/helium-mobile-data-pricing-per-gb/

Every time I attempt and slide the button to the right, it slides back to the left and nothing happens. Quite frustrating. Does anyone have a solution to this issue?

Hey everyone, a new Helium Improvement Proposal is up for community review.

HIP-149: Helium Utility and Emissions Realignment

The $0.50/GB target earn rate set in HIP-53 has compressed materially as traffic grew and HNT price fell. HIP-149 bundles four changes into a single veHNT vote to address that and a few related gaps:

• Deployer earnings floor. Mobile data deployers earn HNT pro-rata of rewardable bytes; a USD-anchored backstop tops up that baseline whenever it falls below 50% of the carrier-paid burn rate Nova sets under HIP-143.
• Operations and growth capitalization. A bounded 36-month HNT mint into a Nova-administered multisig vault. Total ~141M HNT, front-loaded (~50% in the first 12 months), about 72% of current circulating supply.
• Proof-of-Coverage retired. On both Mobile and IoT. Mobile data deployers move to 84% pro-rata of rewardable bytes; SP allocation reframed to a 10% Mobile Operations Fund. IoT continues on the existing $/DC peg.
• Advisory Council. 7 seats (5 community-elected, 2 Nova-appointed) with standing oversight of how the capitalization is used.

Who's affected: Mobile data deployers, IoT data deployers, veHNT holders and delegators, carriers and offload partners.

Category: Economic, Technical Vote requirement: veHNT Holders

Check out the full proposal and the discussion on GitHub.

Questions or feedback? Join us on the Helium Discord, drop them in the comments. Community input matters before this goes to vote.