@FreeShkreli Had you already seen payback on most of these devices?

@bob_carsyn yep, for example my first 20 HM Outdoor Hotspots were purchased between December 2023 and April 2024 (I was more focused on CBRS early on) and those grossed $29,413. That’s $1,471 against their $550 total cost. HM Indoor ones I bought during that same early period did a little better considering thet cost around $275 to my door; $777 each.

I loaded up in Spring and Summer 2024 and put some of those in highher earning areas where a 25% commission still made it win-win and those averaged about the same as my first ones noted above even after netting for the commission to host a lot of them.

By late 2024 I got a bunch when they had the big sale that made them something silly lke half price so those were easy to 2-4x off their cost to me and then by this spring I wasn’t adding many more and occasionally selling off used units and the free ones I got as CBRS sunsetting consolation prizes.

Tbh now I’m planning to sell some off like in places where I still had a good number of overconcentrated HMO units before some HIPs and that annoying “whoops we lost software rewards modeling but it’s what we wanted to happen so let’s not vote on finding a replacement nor speak of this again” back when you could logically stack more than 3 in at one location and do well off PoC (fall 2024 that ended iirc). Others I’ll leave alone and see how the new PoC modification goes that’s based on connected devices and not multiplier maps. And I’m still getting leads for bars, restaurants, etc. to place these in and if XNET slips to Helium on payouts I’ll move HM Indoor units there (indoor untis have a possibility of T-Mobile approval).

All that to say I’ll be fine— sell some, move some to better places to actually earn offload, and even if the thing collapses which is unlikely I’ll still be happty for having played the game.

@FreeShkreli and moving them to places with better offload potential is the entire goal of the project tightening the screws on marginal locations and getting them to people who have sites with more potential (mostly business lcoations) so I can’t complain, I saw it coming + it’s doing what it’s intended to do.

@arbawk IIUC this is an effect of halvening, at least for WiFi units not doing much offload. Max emissions are cut in half, but data rewards are not affected. POC is cut by more than half to compensate.