by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
There’s a very odd story that many of you spotted and passed along, and it concerns all those antennae strangely sprouting and growing in Utah, in and around Salt Lake City. The phenomenon, as we shall see, may have a mundane purpose, one that, in fact, was entirely predictable and one that is fraught with much deeper implications. In the meantime, the antennae continue to sprout and grow like wild asparagus, and they’re not nearly as beneficial, and they’re certainly not edible. So what, indeed, is going on with all these antennae?
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As I was watching the articles about this story piling into my email inbox, one in particular grabbed my attention, from our frequent contributor and article-sharer, V.T., from our friends at Zero Hedge:
Mysterious Antennas Found In Utah’s Hills; Some Speculate ‘Decentralized’ Blockchain Network
Now this explanation – that the antennae have to do with hard blockchain networks – makes sense to me:
As first reported by KSLTV 5 in Utah, the mysterious devices consist of a battery box, a solar panel, and an antenna.
“These towers have been bolted into different peaks and summits and ridges around the foothills,” Tyler Fonarow, the city’s recreational trails manager, explained, “and it started with one or two, and now it might be as much as a dozen.”
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Fonarow speculated the devices could be part of a decentralized wireless connectivity platform:
“It might be related to cryptocurrency and relaying networks and being able to make money off that,” he said, “so that’s another reason we want to stop it now before it becomes a dumping ground for dozens and dozens of more antennas.”
Some people who replied to the Facebook post speculated the devices could be part of the Helium network.
“Probably helium network like several have posted. Or some kind of mesh network repeaters? I don’t understand why they are being torn down and huge effort to take them off public lands, when if it is a mesh network repeater, can be used by the public, and is very important in emergency/communication failure situations,” one person said.
“Those are very clearly off-grid Helium miners,” another person said.
Someone asked: “Ham radio repeater?”
If the speculation is correct, these mysterious antennas could be hotspots connecting to a wireless blockchain-based network for Helium. This entirely new incentive model allows people to set up hotspots that act as Helium miners and serve data to devices. People can earn money by simply buying a hotspot and plugging it in.
And to drive the point home, the article speculates that these antennae arrays are small “hotspots” for mining the crypto-“currency” Helium. And with that, the article presents a picture showing the concentrations of such antennae nationwide:
There are nearly a million hotspots nationwide.
“Mining HNT is done by installing a simple device on your home or office window,” Helium wrote on their website, adding these “hotspots provide miles of wireless network coverage for millions of devices around you using Helium LongFi, and you are rewarded in HNT for doing this. And because of an innovative proof-of-work model (we call it “Proof-of-Coverage”), your Hotspot only uses 5W of energy.”
Notice, each one of these antennae “only uses 5 (watts) of energy.” Gee… that’s nice. Multiply that 5 watts by all those dots, and then stir and knead thoroughly, and what you get is an enormous amount of energy usage to produce … what, exactly, besides lots of air bubbles?
From what I can tell, what you get out of this whole process is not much. And by the way and while we’re at it, where’s that angry screeching little Swedish girl what’s-her-name when you need her? You’d think this would be right up her alley. “How dare you?” and all that, but she’s nowhere to be found apparently.
