# Home hardware device paid for by hosting Akash workloads

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-05-20
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Overcoming the Challenges of Distributed Networks with Greg Osuri CEO of Overclock Labs & Akash N... (Techpost)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:42 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_MLHtkyyxw&t=582s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2024-05-20-home-hardware-device-paid-for-by-hosting-akash-wor-4xjo/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Home hardware device paid for by hosting Akash workloads," Overcoming the Challenges of Distributed Networks with Greg Osuri CEO of Overclock Labs & Akash N... (Techpost), 20 May 2024, 00:09:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_MLHtkyyxw&t=582s

## Quote — verbatim

> This device sits in your house and becomes part of the Akash network, by which the rewards that this particular node gains by hosting other workloads through Akash will subsidize the cost for the hardware... they can bring the cost of the hardware device to almost free — free in the sense the customer is paying for electricity.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Describing music-streaming app Cactus's planned home Music Center device; Greg calls this redistribution of incentives "the true promise of blockchains" — home hardware earning its keep via a decentralized cloud. Quote spans into the [00:10:27] block.