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However, this requires a fundamentally different approach to accessing the wireless medium compared to current generation networks: they are not designed to support many thousands of devices in each other\u2019s vicinity, attempting to send\/receive data simultaneously. In this paper, we present a 6G system architecture for trading wireless network resources in massive IoT scenarios, inspired by the concept of the sharing economy, and using the novel concept of spectrum programming. We simulated a truly massive IoT network and evaluated the scalability of the system when managed using our proposed 6G platform, compared to standard 5G deployments. The experiments showed how the proposed scheme can improve network resource allocation by up to 80%. This is accompanied by similarly significant improvements in interference and device energy consumption. 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