# Crypto-node concentration on Big Cloud is a systemic risk

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-10-04
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Building The Infrastructure Of Web3 \| Greg Osuri Of Akash Network \| The FH Show - EP16 (Felix O. Hartmann)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:33 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzJoHmx4Js&t=813s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-10-04-crypto-node-concentration-on-big-cloud-is-a-system-vghc/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto-node concentration on Big Cloud is a systemic risk," Building The Infrastructure Of Web3 \| Greg Osuri Of Akash Network \| The FH Show - EP16 (Felix O. Hartmann), 4 Oct 2022, 00:13:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzJoHmx4Js&t=813s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's also stats that 39 \[percent\] of Solana nodes are running out of... Amazon... well 69 \[percent\] of Ethereum nodes are running on the big cloud... it's not that Amazon \[is\] good or bad, it's just the fact that there's such heavy concentration — it is a potential point of failure.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Referencing Hetzner banning Ethereum nodes (~10% of the network) in August 2022; warns a government sanction could make cloud-hosted nodes "disappear overnight."