# Don't pay dollar-priced hardware in volatile tokens

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-01
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Leveraging Incentives to Build with Your Community \| Open AGI Summit \| Brussels 2024 (Open AGI)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:23 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD0dxndS3m4&t=443s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-10-01-don-t-pay-dollar-priced-hardware-in-volatile-token-m5pq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Don't pay dollar-priced hardware in volatile tokens," Leveraging Incentives to Build with Your Community \| Open AGI Summit \| Brussels 2024 (Open AGI), 1 Oct 2024, 00:07:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD0dxndS3m4&t=443s

## Quote — verbatim

> When you incentivize in the token that's native to your platform, that token tends to be a volatile token, and then incentive distribution happens to be irregular and doesn't really make sense, because you're most probably likely incentivizing real-world assets like a GPU or a CPU, which are priced in US dollars and not priced in your token.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Lesson three: against cargo-culting Bitcoin block rewards; protocol designers must budget incentives in real-dollar terms.