# Decentralization's spectrum begins with open source and ends with energy sourcing

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-26
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** What is Akash Network? Greg Osuri on Decentralized Cloud Computing \| Greg Osuri - Founder of Akash (Genzio)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:12 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX9lYr57fE&t=912s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-11-26-decentralization-s-spectrum-begins-with-open-sourc-nqbm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization's spectrum begins with open source and ends with energy sourcing," What is Akash Network? Greg Osuri on Decentralized Cloud Computing \| Greg Osuri - Founder of Akash (Genzio), 26 Nov 2024, 00:15:12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX9lYr57fE&t=912s

## Quote — verbatim

> That's why you want open source as a foundation for decentralization, and I will reject any notion that a closed system is decentralized — it's just not a reality. And it's really sad what's happening \[in\] DePIN today, that there are a lot of these networks just popping out of nowhere with fully closed source code bases, and the justification is 'decentralization is a spectrum.' Yes, decentralization is a spectrum, but the spectrum begins with the open source code base and ends with energy sourcing.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After citing CrowdStrike's bad-code push and 23andMe's for-sale DNA database as failure modes of closed systems users don't control.