# Babylon turns Bitcoin from a money chain into an application-powering chain

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-19
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Bitcoin Renaissance - Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Bigeye Studios)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8bZj9_HQXY&t=251s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-11-19-babylon-turns-bitcoin-from-a-money-chain-into-an-a-ptuf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Babylon turns Bitcoin from a money chain into an application-powering chain," Bitcoin Renaissance - Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Bigeye Studios), 19 Nov 2024, 00:04:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8bZj9_HQXY&t=251s

## Quote — verbatim

> Bitcoin has been primarily a money chain till now. But what Babylon is doing is transitioning Bitcoin from a money chain into a chain that can be a lot more useful for powering applications.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Describing the phased plan to move Akash transactions (archival first, then real-time) onto Babylon/Bitcoin; he notes maximalists may see this as antithetical to Bitcoin-as-money.