Crypto nodes concentrated on Amazon — Thorchain bounty
Conversations with Jack ft Greg Osuri - S1E1 - by OmniFlix Network & Citizen Cosmos (OmniFlix Network)
“They were having an effort to decentralize because a lot of their nodes are running on Amazon, and Thorchain — if you know, the team is an anonymous team — they embrace the decentralized values really well, to the core. And I reached out to them: look, we can run Thor nodes pretty well, how about doing a thing — and I gave a bounty… overall it’s about four thousand dollars worth of RUNE tokens and AKT tokens just for writing a guide.” — 00:13:31
Context: Early version of his recurring “crypto runs on centralized cloud” critique; “the first time someone else is paying or incentivizing to put their nodes on Akash” [00:14:13].