# Letting Akash borrow security from Bitcoin

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-25
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Network Live with Greg Osuri: Akash's progress in 2023, open community development, and more (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:47 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=647s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2023-02-25-letting-akash-borrow-security-from-bitcoin-ngzr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Letting Akash borrow security from Bitcoin," Akash Network Live with Greg Osuri: Akash's progress in 2023, open community development, and more (Akash Network), 25 Feb 2023, 00:10:47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=647s

## Quote — verbatim

> He is the Stanford professor who helped Ethereum move from proof of work to proof of stake... his proposal essentially lets Akash borrow security from Bitcoin — that way we don't need to allocate that many tokens for security, but rather actually borrow something from a better security, from proof-of-work model.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Describing Stanford's David Tse (captioned "David Che") contributing to Akash economics via the open SIG process — an example of the talent unlocked by radical openness.