# Decentralized systems look inward for efficiency, not outward expansion

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-01
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF))
- **Watch at:** 00:20:48 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=1248s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2022-07-01-decentralized-systems-look-inward-for-efficiency-n-d4k6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralized systems look inward for efficiency, not outward expansion," WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF)), 1 Jul 2022, 00:20:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=1248s

## Quote — verbatim

> This whole promise of decentralized systems is: it looks inward and it looks to be more efficient with usage, instead of outward and expansionary. I think that's important.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Recurring Osuri argument (also made at Dcentral 2022) — monetize existing underutilized resources rather than build more; here endorsing Gryphon's router-compute pitch.