By offering blockchain-based tokens, Helium incentivizes anyone to own a Hotspot and provide wireless coverage—so the network belongs to participants, not a single company. A network can be scaled much faster and more economically than if a single company tried to build out infrastructure.

By default, everything is encrypted. By virtue of decentralizing the information architecture elements, each user can own their private data, and central repositories are less vulnerable to data losses or breaches because they only store encrypted information and coded pointers to distributed storage locations that are spread across distributed com

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