Re:21 Makes Bitcoin Useful to Developers
by domsch on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:51AM
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The short answer is: No. I don't see how Bitcoin fits into IoT. We are working on the exact same usecase at IOTA (http://iotatoken.com), only our solution is scalable, lightweight and most importantly: there are no transaction fees.
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If you have some reference code for IOTA, I'd like to see it. I'm firmly against any type of closed source Infrastructure code, so I'm hoping that's the plan here. I would also mention that we're not QUITE there yet with this stuff, so over engineering solutions to be scalable to trillions of devices is probably overkill. Giving a simple IOT device a small wallet to pay for its infrequent API calls is probably doable with Bitcoin, even with transaction costs. For other use cases, I can envision proxy devices with keys that represent the smaller, low power, frequent transmissions.