what’s the big deal with helium?

So, Helium. Apparently, people are now getting rewarded in tokens for setting up hardware networks. Yeah, like that’s a brilliant idea. You know, because ordinary folks just have a bunch of 5G towers lying around waiting to be used. Does anyone even know what they’re doing anymore? I mean, this is either the most desperate attempt to crowdsource infrastructure or some ironic cosmic joke that no one seems to get.

It’s all about being faster and cheaper than corporations as if that’s not the oldest con in the book. Everyone’s dreaming big about all this “real utility” while ignoring the mess it creates. Just throw a few tokens at people and hope they forget about the actual work needed to maintain all this ‘decentralization.’ But hey, it’s not like there’s a massive gap between the blockchain geeks who think this is the future and people who still struggle with resetting their Wi-Fi router. Oh, and for those who find this charming or whatever, you can delve deeper with this delightful rabbit hole.

I guess it’s all fun and games until someone realizes they just invested in a bunch of antennas instead of something, you know, remotely useful. Like who even needs coverage everywhere? Let’s saturate every apartment with equipment everyone pretends to care about until the shine wears off and it’s all just another digital landfill. Whatever. I’m done.