# Self-regulate or the regulators will

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-09
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 04:17:10 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=15430s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-06-09-self-regulate-or-the-regulators-will-bibi/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Self-regulate or the regulators will," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network), 9 Jun 2024, 04:17:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=15430s

## Quote — verbatim

> This space is so riddled with scams that we owe to ourselves to get rid of those scams. If we don't self-regulate, the regulators will come and regulate us.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

AMA rant against closed-source clone projects launching at billion-dollar valuations with unverifiable numbers; he contrasts Akash's $15M launch valuation.