# "Ownerless services": nodes that pay for their own hosting

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-12-10
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:47:51 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=2871s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2020-12-10-ownerless-services-nodes-that-pay-for-their-own-ho-qque/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, ""Ownerless services": nodes that pay for their own hosting," "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network), 10 Dec 2020, 00:47:51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=2871s

## Quote — verbatim

> Because Akash is a decentralized network you don't really have sign-up, you don't really have the concept of an owner... you earn income running the Solana node — that income can go directly from the node to Akash, paid in Solana tokens, when we interoperate. That's the future vision... a very holistic frictionless experience, and this is impossible in the cloud... a fully interoperable cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining the Solana partnership (TCP/UDP port support built for their validators); an early sketch of autonomous, self-paying infrastructure.