You can buy electricity via ILP soon

[hallwaymonitor]

Wietse + ILP = Awesomeness

Someone said that the biggest obstacle of the Internet of Value (IoV) is our imagination. I guess ILP will make paying so cheap and effortless in near future that there will be all kinds of applications that will look like futile with the first glance but later on they will become major thing.

[Zedy44]

Neat and innovative.  There are an unlimited amount of use-cases that haven't been factored yet and it should be pretty fun to see how one idea will bring us many more over these next few years.

[Tribble]

You can buy Electricity via ILP now.

 

https://www.powerledger.io/

[enrique11]

Dude, that's some 'next-level' sh*t...lol..good job!

[mandelbaum]

Wietse has done it again. I cannot wait for the day when I can send a couple of Drops to my neighbors artificially intelligent circuit breaker, and bribe it to shut off the power when my neighbor is playing Celine Dion songs at 3 AMw while sobbing into his wineglass for having invested in the wrong project.

Edited September 13, 2018 by mandelbaum

[fastfalcon94]

Really cool. They should do the same for wifi. Not many people want to buy $10-20 airport/hotel/business wifi when traveling just because they don't travel often or don't think they can justify the cost. But if they could make some kind of micropayment via xrp for what they use, they probably would.

[meegwell]

Is anyone else geeking out on this and trying to (or has already) reproduced it?  I want to do it, my Raspberry will arrive tomorrow, I will start tinkering there.

I assume you would set up a dedicated wallet for this (obviously not using the one where your stash is)?  Understood it would cost you 20XRP.  I am also a bit confused on the relay but I'm not there yet....

[xerxesramesepolybius]

I have been able to buy electricity for quite a long time with dollars