Helium MOBILE Mining Using iPhone 11 Pro - How Much Rewards I've Earned Through Mapping 12/27/23 

nice! Let me know how the indoor hotspot goes for you, I'm assuming it's going to be in a residential home. I haven't pulled the trigger yet cause I didn't know if it would make enough to offset the costs if I just had it in my home.

Glad I could help. I'm still learning a bit more about all this myself, but figured shairing my personal experience might help others figure it out as well.

Appreciate it! And thanks for watching the video.

If you’re speaking in terms of rewards, just be careful. You need to get 5 mapping events in 2 non-consecutive hours to qualify for the rewards for the day. So walking around for many consecutive hours a day won’t qualify you. You’d have to turn off mapping for an hour in between, or stay in one place for one of the hours, before you start mapping again.

@type2media if so .. I'll try to deliver a street for half hour and take my lunch break for another half hour and keep my phone in the postal truck so that's an hour 😉

@@cardanium5790 I'm not quite sure that would work. For example, you'd have to work/map 5 events between 8-9am then from 9-10am you would have to be stationary/not mapping for at least an hour, then after the hour is up.. anytime after that, but before the day ends in the app, you'd have to map another 5 events.

Dad! Just kidding, I think you will do well!

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I had the 5G miner. Earned exactly the same amount of tokens post launch and post converting my family of 5 to helium mobile service. Just bought the new indoor miner and have earned a steady $25 - $30 a day from it. 10x the base rewards I am getting from the 5G miner.

Your mileage will vary depending on the number of people that connect. The miner is very omnidirectional. I have it in the living room where we mostly stay.

@@BabyYoda5555 That's awesome... I may have used the wrong terminology when referring to the miners, but appreciate the insight. I was thinking about getting an indoor helium miner, but with just me on the service I don't think the rewards would be worth it... I might try to convince my friend who owns a restaurant to let me put one in her space, since there would be more slower foot traffic.

Keep me posted on how it works with just one phone in the house. I've heard you can only get rewards for the amount that a person is paying for service... so $20 per person essentially... so I'm curious about that.

@type2media i have verizon, and I'm very happy with the service. I'm doing some researching and I'm going to buy another phone and mess with it with helium ...

the rewards are always going to be the same for everyone. It doesn't matter if you get 10 mapping events or 600 mapping events. The rewards are equally split between all subscribers that meet the minimum mapping requirements.

If you get the outdoor hotspot it’ll definitely have more range than the indoor one, so that’s probably your best bet. I’m still trying to learn a bit more about the helium mobile hotspots before I buy one. I have a friend that is opening a restaurant next month, I may try to convince her to let me hook up and indoor one there.

@@type2media Yeah, same here still learning about the hot spots. But Depending on how much the outdoor one costs I may get one. We have several stores and gas station next to highway near house so busy 24/7 but more chances to earn. Plus we just had Fiber installed at our home office and no data caps so perfect for IoT, and several hotspots. I’m setting up some special networking equipment separate from my main network for safety purposes and I’m using my Ledger linked to helium wallet for extra safety. I also found the heavy duty wiring, surge protection, and 15db antenna for Bobcat miner, so total investment might be about $800 also found 12db directional antenna and That might be able to reach miners close or in Chicago from where I live in Indiana.

If you want to keep your current carrier, download the Helium Mobile app and follow the instructions for adding a new number, NOT porting your number. If you port your number to Helium it will cancel your current service. So if you want to keep your current service and add a line on Helium, DO NOT PORT YOUR NUMBER. Once you start the process it'll ask you if you want to do eSIM or SIM, and you would select eSIM and then the app walks you through the instructions.

Thanks for the comment. So the Mobile Miners/Hotspots that Helium is selling provide coverage for their 5G cell phone network, just as you said. The Bobcat 300 and traditional Helium Miners (that give rewards in IOT) are for their Internet of Things network. There are IoT devices available that use the helium network for their network connectivity. You can read more about those devices and stuff here - docs.helium.com/iot/devices/ - Hope that helps!

@@type2mediaThanks so much!

Awesome! Any issues so far?

It seems my first two days I made over 2,000 token and my mapping event was 613 Then I drove my mapping event was over 8,000 and I just made a 1,000 tokens I’m trying to understand how I sit home and made more any ideas?

@@Catsonwheelz so the rewards don't really work like that. As long as you hit the requirements for the rewards, all subscribers that are mapping will get the same amount of rewards. So it doesn't matter if you get 10 mapping events in a day or 600, you'll still get the same amount of MOBILE rewards as everyone else. And unfortunately you can't just sit at home and get rewards, you have to have at least 5 mapping events in 2 non-consecutive hours in a 24 hour period in order to qualify for the rewards for that day. So for instance, if you got 5 mapping events between 1-2pm, you would have to get 0 mapping events from 2-3pm and then 5 more mapping events between 3-4 (or any hour after that initial 1-2) It's a little confusing, but it's to help prevent people from just trying to farm mobile rewards. I've had no problem getting my rewards just from running out and doing my errands, picking up the kids, picking up lunch, etc. during the day as I normally would. The only times I haven't gotten rewards over the last week or so is when I literally did not leave the house all day.

The way I understand it is you get rewards based on Helium Mobile subscribers connecting to your Helium Mobile Hotspot and transfering data through it. So if you're putting it in your home and nobody in your home is utilizing the helium network, it may not be giving you rewards. I'm not totally sure how the Helium Mobile Miners/Hotspots work in terms of rewards, but that's my basic understanding of it. The more people connecting and the more data transfered through it, the more rewards.

thanks for the comment. As far as an EU rollout, I'm not entirely sure and I can't really find any info about it. I'll keep my eye out though and make a video if anything gets announced.

I did the same, didn't port my number quite yet, just cause I wanted to see how Helium did before I ported over. Technically it should be the same as my T-Mobile service, since it uses T-Mobile when it doesn't have Helium connectivity, but still worried me a bit moving over completely.

@@type2media I'm currently on a Verizon network through straight talk with my SIM card right now so I like the idea of having two different providers in the event of one going out temporarily

Shouldn't be any security concern connecting to a stranger's hot spot, no. As for converting MOBILE to cash, that's a great question and I'll make a video about it. But in the meantime, you'll need to transfer MOBILE to the Helium Black Wallet App (which is in the app store) then, if you can find an exchange that has MOBILE listed (like KuCoin), you'll have to send it there and then sell it for your local currency and then have the exchange send it out to your bank. I can't use KuCoin in the US, so what I would do is send the MOBILE to the helium black wallet app, then convert it to SOL, send the SOL to coinbase, and then convert it/sell it for USD on coinbase, and have coinbase send it out to my bank. It's an annoying process, I know. If you're using the mapping on the helium mobile network on your phone to get rewards, you can also just use the MOBILE tokens to pay for your bill each month instead of converting it and sending to your bank account.

I actually just read that Coinbase is adding MOBILE today, so you should just be able to send your MOBILE tokens straight to Coinbase and sell/convert them and push them out to your bank account that way... much easier.

Thanks I found another video that detailed the process of cashing out the mobile crypto.

Hello, I changed from Verizon to helium mobile. The 5g service I noticed no differences with the exception of worse reception in a parking deck once. Other than that the mapping payouts are awesome. You won’t notice a difference with the exception of mapping payouts and reduced bills.

That's been my experience so far. Since Helium Mobile is backed by T-Mobile (when you're unable to connect directly to the Helium Network) I would expect similar reception and signal strength as with T-Moble... I'm still not brave enough to have Helium Mobile as my sole mobile provider just quite yet though, but definitely loving the rewards so far.

I switched from US mobile. Already knew it would basically be the same tmobile service, but better. I've already made $80 in mobile since I started. 62 when it was at a decently high price. Converted to usdc and cashed out. The other 24 I paid for a month of service.

I wonder if esim will work on Att

@@MustangDad53 as long as your phone supports eSim it should work. If you're just adding a number and not porting your old one for now, then the service shouldn't matter, but the phone may need to be carrier unlocked to add that 2nd service.

Right now, Helium mobile is only available in the United States

Curious, any reason why you didn't go with the eSIM over waiting for an actual sim? I just use the eSIM on my iPhone 11 and then have my original T-Mobile plan on the actual SIM, so I can use both.

@@type2media I want control over the sim in full. I don't mind swapping it out. But if the sim is software only then I feel less control over it. I've never used an esim either. I didn't know I could hop back and forth or use both simultaneously but main reason is control over my device.

Also I can get a second device to put it in and out that in the car lol. I work from home and the wife doesn't. So she can get the coverage for us.

@@hondaland_ Yeah, that was my original plan, just get a 2nd cheap phone, that I could keep in the car for mapping MOBILE. I had never used an eSIM either, but it actually works pretty well and I still have my original T-Mobile plan/number set as primary on my phone and the Helium one is just turned on, but not really doing anything, and I can still getting mapping events and MOBILE rewards. But I do like the idea of having flexibility to move the sim around if needed.

@@type2media coolest part I'm seeing is that I'm getting the mapping rewards and I'm still waiting for the SIM card to come in so you just have to be a customer You don't even have to use their cell service You just have to pay for it which it pays for itself if you're mapping enough

Yeah, they are essentially rewarding you for helping to map out their network and see where subscribers are using it and I’m assuming to determine where more hot spots might be needed, etc. so moving is a big part of that.

Hmm, not sure why the link doesn’t work, but you can try the code itself MV37BGW

@@type2media Thank you! I'll try again.