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

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a memory configured to store a system provider device; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to execute instructions that cause the system provider device to perform operations comprising:
receiving 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 of each mining device in a plurality of mining devices, the resource information indicating energy consumption expanded by the each respective mining device for mining a block for the distributed public ledger and energy cost associated with operating the each respective mining device;
selecting a subset of mining devices from the plurality of mining devices for processing the transaction, each mining device in the subset of mining devices having the resource information indicating the energy consumption that is less than a predetermined energy consumption for mining the block for the distributed public ledger and the energy cost that is less than a predetermined energy cost for operating the each respective mining device in the plurality of mining devices; 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 mining devices to include the transaction in the block on the distributed public ledger.