# Ethereum memory costs $13,000/MB — monolithic chains can't scale

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-10-11
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** E04 - Decentralizing the Cloud with Greg Osuri (HackerNoon)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:59 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvj2ruVPfYQ&t=479s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2018-10-11-ethereum-memory-costs-13-000-mb-monolithic-chains-625b/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Ethereum memory costs $13,000/MB — monolithic chains can't scale," E04 - Decentralizing the Cloud with Greg Osuri (HackerNoon), 11 Oct 2018, 00:07:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvj2ruVPfYQ&t=479s

## Quote — verbatim

> Ethereum — it costs about $13,000 to get one megabyte of memory... and you look at EOS, which is supposedly the modern Ethereum killer — it costs about twenty-five hundred dollars per megabyte of memory... we're talking about floppy disks costing $2,500... the problem happens to be they all adopt a monolithic, homogeneous architecture with an assumption that all the applications have the same exact needs.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Why existing decentralized platforms couldn't host real applications; Akash's answer is decoupling bandwidth, memory, CPU and storage and provisioning them independently. Quote begins at the end of the [00:07:13] block.