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murmansk
Hi, HN, basically a one-man show here. Machinomy just turned v0.1, and I thought it could be a nice opportunity for feedback. Ultimate motivation for the project is to allow autonomous devices pay for themselves. This involves many things. The library is a prototype for the payments layer.

Some links:

[1] Project website: http://machinomy.com

[2] Code: https://github.com/machinomy/machinomy

[3] NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/machinomy

[4] Gitter Chat: https://gitter.im/machinomy/machinomy

[5] Twitter: https://twitter.com/machinomy

egfx
You should simplify what this is about. I'm having g a hard time following all of it.
murmansk
This is a Node.js library that allows you to instantly* send a fraction of Ether as a payment for a HTTP service.

* - ok, if you have a payment channel open. A payment channel is an instance of state channels described on http://www.jeffcoleman.ca/state-channels/

It allows you to pay for just one SMS sent instead of having a minimal credit on Twilio, as an example.

spolu
Is there a cost to setting up a channel?
murmansk
Yes, it is about 20 cents to open a channel, and 30 cents to close it.
spolu
Hey! Very interesting work. I left a question below (above?).

I myself have been hacking on a payment related project which is also in "show" right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446587

Would love to get your feels as you've been thinking about machine-machine transactions quite a lot obviously.

Happy to discuss more over email as well.