Tokenized open source — a sustainability model the world has never seen
"Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast)
“I looked at open core. Open core was not the solution. Token as open source software allows a sustainability model to open source that the world has never seen. So why? Because it moves the maintainability of a network away from a single corporation to the common… And for the first time we can have an open write database. Never before it was possible before crypto.” — 00:37:18
Context: The core of his “why crypto” answer; he adds that permissionless writes solve the minimal-trust credential-bootstrapping problem of edge computing ([00:38:39]).