# Tokenized open source — a sustainability model the world has never seen

- **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:** 00:37:18 — 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-tokenized-open-source-a-sustainability-model-the-w-bfpp/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tokenized open source — a sustainability model the world has never seen," "Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast), 16 Jan 2024, 00:37:18. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-the-crypto-powered-decentralized-supercloud/id1671489227?i=1000641868294

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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]).