Design of a Real-Time Data Market Based on the 21 Bitcoin Computer.
An ever increasing number of physical and virtual sensors are digitizing the world around us. Today, most of this data is trapped in application-specific environments, and even if accessible in principle, discovery remains a problem. An open and transparent data market brings incentives for sensor owners to offer measurement data and provides means for discovery. We envision a decentralized data market based on peer-to-peer data exchange and payments. The presented prototype is an iteration of this idea based on the 21 Bitcoin computer, a computer with an embedded Bitcoin mining chip, as well as tools and services to simplify machine-to-machine payments based on Bitcoin.