Can we see any details and thoughts behind this "Akash

allows to circumvent US restrictions" agenda?

It sounds nice until Akash gets targeted by US.

Following this.

Well if it's the restrictions related to video card sales, then renting computation time on blockchain is not illegal, it's literal distribution of phisycal hardware (and new items as well) that are forbidden (probably to prevent military use, which wouldn't be blockchain related).

And if armies do start to use Akash we are all screwed anyway

I dont know whether it is restrictions related to video card sales or using AI features that "Unstoppable" was referencing. "Using AI features" could well be applied to blockchain tech.

At the moment, the US just 'restrict' exporting chips to other countries. Probably we haven't caught in their radar. P.s, US defense agency already use Akash Network in late 2022.

Hope they didn't find it too useful 😅 They can politely ask Amazon or Microsoft for help if they need something changed just for them in Azure or AWS, with Akash they can only dump budget in it to the point where it wouldn't be cheaper to use then mentioned Azure and AWS 😣

That's a big misconception. Money does not matter when US goes after someone. They will hunt everyone on their scopes. Thats why Im interested in how Akash protects the network from someone US wants to find.

What do you mean "hunt down", it's the question of them using it not fighting it. They have unlimited budget and they will make sure it allows them exclusive use of services they think they need. Since AKASH is decentralised there is no stimuli to serve to wider audience if somebody starts buying out all supply with freshly printed usdt

What I mean by hunt down? The US goes after anyone and everything that does not comply with their regulations.

This is not about regulation

Oh yes it is. If the US has a regulation about not shipping GPU's or not selling certain services to a country, then it's on. And it's about regulation. The US might target Akash when they cant target single service providers.

Lets say someone buys 1500 GPU's and sells their computing power to Iran?

Lets say someone buys 15,000 GPU's and sells their computing power to Iran? What is the US going to do?

How they would target Akash if akash is a distributed network around the world?

The same way they bring down any other instance acting against their regulations. They target the network, the exchanges, node providers and users

Feel free to share those instances so we can compare them to Akash

It was a question all along. Is there any fallback on Akash Network itself, to limit selling for example over 50% of the networks GPU power to Iran?

Shipping goods and providing a service are fundamentally different concepts since the good such as an advanced videocard can be used in the production some military technology. While cloud service can be used for such purposes to some extent, there is no real risk of intellectual property theft (from device producer by state actor) and using the services enabled by such forbidden devices would mean sponsoring those countries that are allowed to have them through hypothetical taxes and domestic spendings of service providers

And especially since US military were already utilising Akash for something, if they found it useful they would be much more interested in monopolising the marketplace with their unmatched budgets to have access to the technology themselves and deny efficient use for others rather than trying to shut it down

Well they will take down instances, serving to Iranian IPs, what does it have to do with akash itself? Each instance has a physical device of a person who is in a country which has some regulators and US will be contacting those regulators

According to this message

I'm more worried about services like IExec btw because they aggregate all computation into a single grid computer, one Iranian government request can be a trigger for regulators to trigger the whole grid In Akash's case facilitating the ability to set up a virtual machine for a remote user is not itself illegal but this machine might send illegal information internationally, going through local internet providers and allowing to track it to the separate device more or less