# Hetzner is the first of a series of cloud crypto bans

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2022-09-12
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Analysis - What the Hetzner ban means for Akash (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:00 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezIAHMU_Cxw&t=0s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-12-hetzner-is-the-first-of-a-series-of-cloud-crypto-b-jw22/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Hetzner is the first of a series of cloud crypto bans," Akash Analysis - What the Hetzner ban means for Akash (Akash Network), 12 Sept 2022, 00:00:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezIAHMU_Cxw&t=0s

## Quote — verbatim

> This announcement is a major announcement which I believe will set forth a series of bans by centralized cloud providers, and this is exactly the reason why Akash exists — Akash exists for a non-censorable, sovereign, always-on cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

September 2022 Hetzner crypto ban; he notes Hetzner ran most Cosmos node infra and 17% of Ethereum's cloud nodes. **Speaker:** uncredited clip; likely Greg.