# Bezos could shut down Ethereum

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-07-15
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "Akash Network Deep Dive: The Unstoppable Cloud, Powered by Cosmos!" (Cryptocito)
- **Watch at:** 00:26:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=1584s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2021-07-15-bezos-could-shut-down-ethereum-tyra/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Bezos could shut down Ethereum," "Akash Network Deep Dive: The Unstoppable Cloud, Powered by Cosmos!" (Cryptocito), 15 Jul 2021, 00:26:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=1584s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's monitoring evidence that most nodes in Ethereum are run on Amazon, and it's Jeff \[Bezos'\] prerogative at this point... if he wants to shut down \[the\] Ethereum network, he can do that... most people in DeFi don't care \[that\] the infrastructure is centralized, but they all want to be decentralized... the cognitive dissonance that we have is so bad.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked about DeFi running on centralized infrastructure; he adds "DeFi is not fully decentralized unless the entire stack is on a decentralized network" (00:27:50), noting centralized DNS and frontends as regulatory chokepoints.