HIP VS blockchain-node

I am completly new to the Blockchain and Helium world (and reddit as well), but the idea about a decentralized mobile network fascinates me and I would love to get into it. I did some reading in the Helium Documentation and HIP-51 and HIP-53, but still have many questions.

🎙️ICYMI, the Foundation will facilitate a fruitful discussion about the future of the Maker Program, MCC, and other details in HIP 99 during 2 live forums on Wednesday, December 6, 2023.

Hey everybody, remember when people were pissed because of the HIP 83 that severely narrowed the chances of many hotspots to be chosen for witness rewards allocation? Behold! Here is the HIP 94 mainly developed by one nice guy from GitHub (disk91) in order to fix these ridiculous changes, which always benefit the same pool of hotspots and requires response rate that is completely unjustified for the LoRaWAN usecase and is more suitable for online FPS or Moba gaming. I am not affiliated with the proposal but have been following the discussion/criticism of the HIP 83 since June or so. Many thanks to disk91 for spending his time and presenting the proposal. Just wanted to notify you guys so you could stay aware and support the HIP when the time comes.

The true source is here https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0051-helium-dao.md

The Light Hotspots activation is the largest update to the Helium network since Validators last year and the core developers have been working hard to ensure a smooth deployment. This week the core team identified a few changes that require another update by various network participants and is moving the activation date to provide participants ample time to upgrade. No action required by Hotspot owners. To ensure blockchain components continue to work as expected we request all network participants upgrade their software to the appropriate version listed below by 2022-05-11 00:00:00 UTC. Activation of Light Hotspots will take place shortly after. Note some components will have releases later this week but we wanted to communicate this change early. We’ll continue to update this announcement as releases become available. - Validators: currently beta (https://github.com/helium/miner/releases/tag/validator1.9.1) - Blockchain Node: https://github.com/helium/blockchain-node/releases/tag/1.1.62 - Router: TBD (later this week) - Hotspot Firmware / Makers: TBD (later this week) - ETL: https://github.com/helium/blockchain-etl/releases/tag/1.1.140 Thanks for updating and we look forward to this launch!

Helium released an update which required Binance to update their wallet: https://github.com/helium/blockchain-node/releases/tag/1.1.40