Using Blockchain to Support Trustworthy Transactions on the IoT – InformationWeek
Conversational commerce, Alexa style, is the harbinger of the more pervasive edge-commerce future that awaits us all. As every new Internet of Things device comes online and expands its automation capabilities, our personal edge nodes will take center stage in our lives. Intelligent devices will continuously acquire, configure, restock, refresh, optimize, repair, and otherwise manage every material and virtual facet of our lives. They’ll even become pivotal to how we monetize every one of our assets, especially the data, compute, storage, and other resources that form the lifeblood of this new connected economy.