Candid admission: flat metrics come from churn — users simply run out of escrow
Akash Weekly - October 28th 2022 (Akash Network)
“The biggest reason why people leave Akash is they run out of money — like, it’s really that dumb… it’s like [a] parking meter, you forget to put more money in… the deployment goes away and I have no idea why my deployment went away… churn has been a larger contributing factor for a flat adoption curve.” — 00:36:50
Context: Community member asks why network analytics are flat over the past year; Greg lists fixes: Cloudmos alerts, USDC stable payments, credit-card custodial deploys via the upcoming Overclock Console, and multi-region fault-tolerance UX.