# Progressive decentralization is a fallacy

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-12-19
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Network founder Greg Osuri - Building a Decentralized Computing Marketplace (Crypto Nuggets)
- **Watch at:** 00:55:43 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwpAQjvSxRE&t=3343s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2023-12-19-progressive-decentralization-is-a-fallacy-xqzg/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Progressive decentralization is a fallacy," Akash Network founder Greg Osuri - Building a Decentralized Computing Marketplace (Crypto Nuggets), 19 Dec 2023, 00:55:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwpAQjvSxRE&t=3343s

## Quote — verbatim

> Progressive decentralization — it never works, not a single case, guarantee you that... You either decentralize or you're not, from day one. Bitcoin was day-one decentralized, Ethereum was day-one decentralized.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Contrasting Akash ($1.8M raised, launched, open source) with hundreds-of-millions-funded "aspirational networks" still unlaunched; cites Render's five-years-closed-source GoDoS as the cautionary example.