The proportions tell the tale—witnessing and data transfer are the two main things that are rewarded and they are both primarily about receiving data rather than transmitting it. In that bike share example I shared above, the company isn’t sending firmware updates over the air. They just want to know where the dang bikes are. That’s what LongFi is great for. Therefore, nodes in the network that can listen to large areas consistently should be rewarded.
We already know that more hotspots = more money. However, there is a balance to be had, the more hotspots there are on the network, the lower the payouts become. So ideally, you need to invest early but also in an area with a lot of hotspots. It is worth noting that this, therefore, means the US has had a massive lead over anyone in the UK or Europe.

Now, I wouldn’t just publicly call out a Miner Network for cheating unless I had proof. Before writing this article, I was extremely suspicious of this network. I really wanted to go see if this network was fake or if I was being paranoid, but it was too far of a drive. In a stroke of good fortune, I randomly had a job that required me to drive through this area – so I went and wirelessly sniffed this network with a wireless mapper. After crawling for hours, I didn’t get one ping, and I crawled over every single one of those Miners. Here are their names:
As we can see from the name, ASIC is an integrated computer component built for a specific kind of application. You might be more familiar with the term “microchip,” which is exactly what this is.