# The unbanked billion will be Akash's next users

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-05-20
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:31:04 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6niawECR8A&t=1864s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-05-20-the-unbanked-billion-will-be-akash-s-next-users-5bup/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The unbanked billion will be Akash's next users," Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast), 20 May 2024, 00:31:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6niawECR8A&t=1864s

## Quote — verbatim

> There are about a billion people in the world that don't have credit cards, and that means they don't have access to the cloud... it's easy to see the future generation that's unbanked, that's getting used to using crypto as a primary way to pay for things, are going to be Akash users. It is the future, it is the next generation.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Told via the story of an African student whose first-ever cloud deployment was on Akash after someone sent him tokens on Twitter; cites Africa's demographics.