location proof of

[Karl Semich]

peter sent me this

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 9:27 AM Peter Fairbrother <peter at tsto.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 07/01/2024 13:49, Karl Semich wrote:
> > hi Peter !
> >
> > Sorry for sending to the list when I am confused. The link was sent
> > under such conditions, as is this email.
> >
> > I installed a device recently that hopes to perform proof of location
> > (haven't checked if it's implemented, but it sends a lot of metadata).
> >
> > I'm curious if you have opinions or values around proof-of-location;
> > why do you say "Barf"?
>
> 'cos the paper is so bad it made me want to vomit

I glanced at the paper a little more and it doesn't seem bad in the
writing to me, but it is barfy in that it is a medium article that
looks like a paper, and it is from 2018.

here are the links and papers from the image in it. helium's paper
only fetched for me via cleartext HTTP. i had to find platin's paper
on scribd as their domain expired years ago.

https://www.foam.space/publicAssets/FOAM_Whitepaper.pdf
http://whitepaper.helium.com/
https://platin.io/ ->
https://scribd.com/document/404637122/Platin-Whitepaper-v2-1-pdf
https://docs.xyo.network/XYO-White-Paper.pdf
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