People need to realize and accept the fact that even the Blockchain will be centralized and be regulated by the government sooner rather than later,there's no escaping it...
I'm very skeptic due to closed source and that, but it's still extremely interesting ideas so I really hope you continue to research and report on this!
Even if we can't use their code, the general design can be copied and it doesn't matter how many patents and monopolies they have gotten from governments if a new better system without owners shows up.
Thanks for your post!