# Nakamoto coefficient needs improvement — delegate to smaller validators

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2022-09-01
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Ask Akash - How Decentralized are Akashs Validator Nodes? (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:55 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J078p6BzLK0&t=175s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-09-01-nakamoto-coefficient-needs-improvement-delegate-to-owi4/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Nakamoto coefficient needs improvement — delegate to smaller validators," Ask Akash - How Decentralized are Akashs Validator Nodes? (Akash Network), 1 Sept 2022, 00:02:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J078p6BzLK0&t=175s

## Quote — verbatim

> We could improve on the Nakamoto coefficiency. I'd like to see a lot more smaller providers get a bigger share. There's a huge gap between the top validator, which is Overclock Labs — I think they have like 15 million AKT delegated to them, that's a lot... and the smaller guy has about 77,000 AKT. So I encourage people to go delegate to smaller \[validators\].

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Transparency about stake concentration on Akash (caption renders Overclock as "cover Labs"). **Speaker:** uncredited Ask Akash answer; likely Greg.