# A peer-to-peer marketplace is the only way to get chips

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-04-18
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** DePin, Scams & Decentralized ML (Chris Joannou)
- **Watch at:** 00:24:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwkqmOSUkE&t=1464s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-04-18-a-peer-to-peer-marketplace-is-the-only-way-to-get-drgb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A peer-to-peer marketplace is the only way to get chips," DePin, Scams & Decentralized ML (Chris Joannou), 18 Apr 2025, 00:24:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwkqmOSUkE&t=1464s

## Quote — verbatim

> The only way we will be able to get chips is through a peer-to-peer marketplace, and that's really what Akash is building.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

H100s/A100s were unobtainable even on hyperscaler clouds during the 2023 GPU crunch; he notes Musk had just bought ~10,000 H100s.