# Akash will borrow Bitcoin security for better price-performance

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-01-20
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** "Securing Cosmos With Bitcoin: A conversation with David Tse of Babylon" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:31:39 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyVimp8ddBU&t=1899s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2023-01-20-akash-will-borrow-bitcoin-security-for-better-pric-6lwv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash will borrow Bitcoin security for better price-performance," "Securing Cosmos With Bitcoin: A conversation with David Tse of Babylon" (Akash Network), 20 Jan 2023, 00:31:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyVimp8ddBU&t=1899s

## Quote — verbatim

> Our security budget... comes from inflationary tokens... we pay higher price for lower security. But if I can optimize the security budget to have much better price for performance by borrowing Bitcoin security, I think we'll be a lot better and a lot more secure chain. So I see a future where we can borrow Bitcoin security and pay relatively less than what we're paying right now.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On Akash-Babylon collaboration; he proposes starting with partial borrowed security and letting token holders tune how much security to buy from where, ideally in real time.