Amazon is crypto's middleman — 40% of Ethereum nodes
Akash Weekly Spaces - June 29th (Akash Network)
“Over 40 [percent] of Ethereum nodes currently run on Amazon alone, and over 54 [percent] of the nodes are running on the big cloud… that exposes the vulnerability… is Ethereum really as decentralized as it claims to be when one company has over forty percent of the network processing power?” — 00:07:55
Context: Citing ethernodes.org real-time data; he follows up that “the whole notion of not having a middleman — but actually we’re having middlemen in crypto, and that middleman happens to be Amazon.”