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I can see the tension there. In a certain sense it's a shame to see good crypto languish.

It's also highlights why I feel the concept of a "decentralized" currency is essentially impossible. Someone always controls some facet of it, be it features of the currency, supply, restrictions, or value.

In the case of cryptocurrencies, the authors of the protocol and governance put in place to maintain it are the central authority. For zcash, the central bitcoin authority (whoever you referenced as 'Bitcoin') wouldn't/couldn't integrate features they wanted so they rolled their own currency of which now THEY are the central authority.