# Crypto onboarding loses 95% of would-be Akash users

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-10
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin))
- **Watch at:** 00:27:22 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-network-the-decentralized-compute-marketplace/id1471243424?i=1000669078512
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-09-10-crypto-onboarding-loses-95-of-would-be-akash-users-ctcy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto onboarding loses 95% of would-be Akash users," Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin)), 10 Sept 2024, 00:27:22. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-network-the-decentralized-compute-marketplace/id1471243424?i=1000669078512

## Quote — verbatim

> Traditional Web2 developers, AI developers that don't interact with crypto are forced to buy crypto... we lose 95% of the users in that very step of getting AKT tokens. And thanks to the United States, zero regulation or lack of clarity with regulation, you cannot sell legally the tokens using a credit card on your website.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Justifying the upcoming "trial wallets" feature (spans into the 00:28:02 block), which he says will "open up 99% of the users that we were closed to before" without sacrificing decentralization.