# Proof-of-stake networks are communal organisms that resist takeover

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-06-28
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** I Moderated A Panel at DCENTRAL Austin 2022 on Decentralized Cloud! (MineYour.₿iz Classic)
- **Watch at:** 00:24:57 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeghIeZppQI&t=1497s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-06-28-proof-of-stake-networks-are-communal-organisms-tha-ci6n/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Proof-of-stake networks are communal organisms that resist takeover," I Moderated A Panel at DCENTRAL Austin 2022 on Decentralized Cloud! (MineYour.₿iz Classic), 28 Jun 2022, 00:24:57. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeghIeZppQI&t=1497s

## Quote — verbatim

> What's going to prevent a bad actor, let's say Amazon, to buy up all the tokens and take over Akash Network? ... proof of stake systems are inherently communal organisms... a bad actor trying to buy up all the tokens — that's going to increase the price of the token, thereby further strengthening security... people can fork it and start a new one... the community will always come through before an attack can happen, and there are also preventive circuit breakers — we have like a 21-day unbonding period for that very reason.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Prompted by a question on adversarial attacks; illustrated with his Terra story — an outsider with "very little voting power, very little clout" passing a proposal via Twitter to re-enable IBC [00:26:22].