# Crypto is incentive on steroids

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-01-16
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 01:04:29 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-the-crypto-powered-decentralized-supercloud/id1671489227?i=1000641868294
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-01-16-crypto-is-incentive-on-steroids-bfpp/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto is incentive on steroids," "Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast), 16 Jan 2024, 01:04:29. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-the-crypto-powered-decentralized-supercloud/id1671489227?i=1000641868294

## Quote — verbatim

> Crypto is incentive on steroids, right? So that's one key property of crypto that no other industry can give. And what can we do with the incentives in a supply constraint market? I think it's going to be fascinating, right? It has never been done before for GPUs.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing alpha — several large ML companies were approaching Akash to list "their entire A100 fleet... thousands of A100s," partly for depreciation tax reasons ([01:05:09]).