# Blockchains create permanent systems that outlive their creators

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-02-14
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "How to Pivot your Career in Crypto and AI \| Builder's Diary \#9 with Greg Osuri" (Finality Crypto Podcast (DeFi Times))
- **Watch at:** 00:18:08 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-pivot-your-career-in-crypto-and-ai-builders/id1541829695?i=1000645292095
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-02-14-blockchains-create-permanent-systems-that-outlive-klnh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Blockchains create permanent systems that outlive their creators," "How to Pivot your Career in Crypto and AI \| Builder's Diary \#9 with Greg Osuri" (Finality Crypto Podcast (DeFi Times)), 14 Feb 2024, 00:18:08. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-pivot-your-career-in-crypto-and-ai-builders/id1541829695?i=1000645292095

## Quote — verbatim

> One of the reasons why I'm doing crypto and blockchain is to have that legacy, like, to create something that will outlive me, the corporations that I built, or the people that I know.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His "permanence" thesis, echoed later: "Akash without crypto wouldn't last. Like, in case I retire, it would die" (00:44:40) and "I could disappear right now and Akash will function" — 480 contributors, on-chain funding, third parties earning revenue (00:45:23).