Validating computer resource usage

A computer system to validate use of a computing resource by a requester software component comprising:

• a processor and a data store, wherein the processor is adapted to:
• validate a characteristic of the requester;
• generate a first transaction defining criteria for consumption of the resource by the requester, the first transaction being encrypted with a private key from a public key/private key pair and being added as part of a block of transactions to a blockchain data structure;
• and
• generate a subsequent encrypted transaction corresponding to a request of the requester to consume the resource, the subsequent transaction referring to the first transaction,
• wherein the subsequent transaction is validated by a transaction miner computing component from a plurality of miners by authenticating the transaction using the public key and verifying compliance with the criteria defined in each transaction.

A computing resource consumption computer system adapted to validate use of a computing resource by a requester software component, the system comprising:

• a validator processing unit validating a characteristic of the requester;
• and
• a transaction generator processing unit, the transaction generator generating a first transaction defining criteria for consumption of the resource by the requester, the first transaction being encrypted with a private key from a public key/private key pair and being added as part of a block of transactions to a blockchain data structure,
• wherein in the transaction generator further generates a subsequent encrypted transaction corresponding to a request of the requester to consume the resource, the subsequent transaction referring to the first transaction,
• wherein the subsequent transaction is validated by a transaction miner computing component from a plurality of miners by authenticating the transaction using the public key and verifying compliance with the criteria defined in each transaction.