Tim O'Hearn

Tim O'Hearn

A software engineer who has spent the last 5 years working in high-frequency trading. He built an audience with his "52 Books per Year" project from 2016-2020 before focusing on his own variety blog.
What HIP15 and HIP17 Mean for Your Miner Earnings

What HIP15 and HIP17 Mean for Your Miner Earnings

The Helium project has a community-driven proposal system that can be found on GitHub. When a rough consensus has been achieved in the review committee, a Helium Improvement Proposal (HIP) will be marked as “approved,” and then the code can be merged and deployed.
Tim O'Hearn
Tim O'Hearn
3 min read
Exploring HIP 35: Safe RF Meta-Data Side Channel

Exploring HIP 35: Safe RF Meta-Data Side Channel

Helium project has a community-driven proposal system that can be found on GitHub. When a rough consensus has been achieved in the review committee, a Helium Improvement Proposal (HIP) will be marked as “approved,” and then the code can be merged and deployed.
Tim O'Hearn
Tim O'Hearn
3 min read
Helium Light Hotspots

Helium Light Hotspots

The Helium network is expanding and at quite an impressive rate. With more than 70,655 active hotspots, it should come as no surprise that the load on each hotspot is increasing, and the blockchain sync time is increasing for all of these new hotspots.
Tim O'Hearn
Tim O'Hearn
4 min read