Incremental billing with blockchains

A method for determining a resource use of resources provided by one or more devices (50) in order to carry out a service, the method comprising at a miner (100):determining (S41) a latest block (35b) of a blockchain (35) related to the service and a total resource information present in the latest block, wherein the total resource information represents the total amount of resources used by the one or more devices (50) for providing the service since a defined starting point in time,determining (S42) that a new use case of resources of a first device of the one or more devices (50) has occurred which is not reflected by the total resource information and determining a new amount of the resources used by the first device during the new use case,determining (S43) a new total resource information in which the total resource information is combined with the new amount of the resources and which reflects a complete use of the resources of the one or more devices from the defined starting point until determining the new total resource information,generating (S44) a new block of the blockchain (35), adding the new total resource information to the new block (35c), and adding the new block to the blockchain (35).