SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXECUTING A CRYPTO-CURRENCY TRANSACTION IN RESPONSE TO A PREDICTED FORWARD MARKET PRICE

1 . A transaction-enabling system comprising a controller, wherein the controller is configured to:

interpret a resource utilization requirement for a task system having at least one of a compute task, a network task, or a core task;

interpret a plurality of external data sources, wherein the plurality of external data sources comprises at least one data source outside of the task system;

operate an expert system to predict a forward market price for a resource in response to the resource utilization requirement and the plurality of external data sources; and

execute a cryptocurrency transaction on a resource market in response to the predicted forward market price.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of external data sources comprises at least one of an internet-of-things (IoT) data source and a social media data source.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the forward market price comprises a forward market price for at least one of a network bandwidth resource and a spectrum source.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the resource utilization requirement comprises a first resource, and wherein the resource of the forward market price comprises at least one of:

the first resource; and

a second resource that can be substituted for the first resource.

5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the controller is further configured to operate the expert system to determine a substitution cost of the second resource, and to execute the cryptocurrency transaction on the resource market further in response to the substitution cost of the second resource.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the expert system is further configured to determine at least a portion of the substitution cost of the second resource as an operational change cost for the task system.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the resource utilization requirement comprises at least one resource selected from the resources consisting of: a compute resource, a network bandwidth resource, a spectrum resource, a data storage resource, an energy resource, and an energy credit resource.

8 . A method, comprising:

interpreting a resource utilization requirement for a task system having at least one of a compute task, a network task, or a core task;

interpreting a plurality of external data sources, wherein the plurality of external data sources comprises at least one data source outside of the task system;

operating an expert system to predict a forward market price for a resource in response to the resource utilization requirement and the plurality of external data sources; and

executing a cryptocurrency transaction on a resource market in response to the predicted forward market price.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of external data sources comprises an internet-of-things (IoT) data source and a social media data source.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the forward market price comprises a forward market price for a network bandwidth resource.

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the forward market price comprises a forward market price for a spectrum resource.

12 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the resource utilization requirement comprises a first resource, and wherein the resource of the forward market price comprises at least one of:

the first resource; and

a second resource that can be substituted for the first resource.

13 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising operating the expert system to determine a substitution cost of the second resource; and executing the cryptocurrency transaction on the resource market further in response to the substitution cost of the second resource.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising determining at least a portion of the substitution cost of the second resource as an operational change cost for the task system.

15 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the resource utilization requirement comprises at least one resource selected from the resources consisting of: a compute resource, a network bandwidth resource, a spectrum resource, a data storage resource, an energy resource, and an energy credit resource.

16 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising operating the expert system to predict a forward market price for a plurality of forward market time frames.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the executing the cryptocurrency transaction on the resource market in response to the predicted forward market price comprises providing for an improved cost of operation of the task system.

18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the resource utilization requirement comprises a first resource, and wherein the method further comprises:

determining a second resource that can be substituted for the first resource;

wherein operating the expert system to predict the forward market price for the plurality of forward market time frames further comprises predicting the forward market price for both of the first resource and the second resource.

19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the executing the cryptocurrency transaction on the resource market in response to the predicted forward market price comprises providing for an improved cost of operation of the task system.

20 . The method of claim 19 , wherein the providing for the improved cost of operation of the task system further comprises determining a resource utilization profile, wherein the resource utilization profile comprises a utilization of each of the first resource and the second resource.