# Crypto nodes concentrated on Amazon — Thorchain bounty

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Citizen Cosmos and OmniFlix Network: Conversations with Jack ft. Greg Osuri Akash Network, S1E1 (Citizen Web3)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:49 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRG5sAp_Sc&t=769s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-01-19-crypto-nodes-concentrated-on-amazon-thorchain-boun-yagz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto nodes concentrated on Amazon — Thorchain bounty," Citizen Cosmos and OmniFlix Network: Conversations with Jack ft. Greg Osuri Akash Network, S1E1 (Citizen Web3), 19 Jan 2021, 00:12:49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRG5sAp_Sc&t=769s

## Quote — verbatim

> We got picked up by Thorchain... they were having an effort to decentralize because a lot of their nodes are running on Amazon... I reached out to them: look, we can run Thor nodes pretty well, how about doing a thing — and I gave a bounty... about four thousand dollars worth of RUNE tokens and AKT tokens just for writing a guide.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Early instance of his recurring "crypto runs on centralized cloud" argument; he calls it "the first time someone else is paying or incentivizing to put their nodes on Akash" [00:14:12].