# A cloud-hosted blockchain is a disruption waiting to happen

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-11-11
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:52 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YasgYOQtxR0&t=172s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-11-11-a-cloud-hosted-blockchain-is-a-disruption-waiting-cvuv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A cloud-hosted blockchain is a disruption waiting to happen," The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network), 11 Nov 2022, 00:02:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YasgYOQtxR0&t=172s

## Quote — verbatim

> In theory it's possible; in practicality you're going to see a disruption — it's going to be several days if not weeks levels of disruption with degraded services. The real question you should be asking is: is that the future we want, a disrupted blockchain?

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Rebutting the argument that Ethereum nodes could simply migrate if Amazon (hosting ~50% of cloud-hosted nodes) shut them off; he adds Lido's ~50% node power is likely on a single provider with no public multi-cloud DR strategy.