Patent ID: 11961070
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a system provider device, transaction information for a transaction that is configured to provide for a transfer of a digital asset between a payer device and a payee device via a distributed public ledger;
accessing resource information indicating energy consumption expanded by each mining device of a plurality of mining devices for mining a block on the distributed public ledger and an energy cost of operating the each mining device in the plurality of mining devices, wherein the resource information is accessible prior to the transaction being received at the system provider device;
determining a score using the resource information for the each respective mining device, wherein the score is based on the energy consumption and the energy cost;
selecting, using scores of the plurality of mining devices, a subset of the plurality of mining devices for processing the transaction; and
broadcasting, via a network to the subset of the plurality of mining devices the transaction information for the transaction to cause one of the subset of the plurality of mining devices to include the transaction in the block on the distributed public ledger.