Balaji Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO at 21 Inc, has announced the launch of a software package to allow any computer user to earn bitcoins through a wide range of means.

One of the ideas he voiced speaking at the Consensus 2016 blockchain conference in New York implies earning bitcoins by simply browsing the Internet:

“The concept is a web where machines are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request. Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That’s a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins,” explained Srinivasan.

The software in question is available for free, allowing anyone to connect to the 21 Marketplace and use the capabilities which were earlier available only to 21 Bitcoin Computer owners, including selling and buying decentralised applications.

Now that the software is released the easiest way to earn bitcoins is to install bitcoin micropayments into one’s apps, so that the clients’ machines pay instantly as they start to use the apps.

“What we think is that there is going to be a third Web, the Machine Web, where the links are actually payments between machines,” CoinDesk quotes Srinivasan . 21 Inc CEO believes that the machine-to-machine web comes after the “first web” which interconnected documents and the “second web” which connected people.

“We’ve taken every computer and turned it into a Bitcoin Computer. It’s a new way to monetize online,” he said, adding that pricing inserted by the developers may vary and be hugely dynamic depending on different circumstances.

Bitcoin Computer was released by 21 Inc last September. The device allows users to mine bitcoins, carry out microtransactions between devices while acting as a full node, and create applications based on the bitcoin protocol.





Maria Rudina