DraftKings CEO - "The types of things [we need] to become mainstream fly directly in the face of decentralization. If you don't have some sort of centralized control, it's hard to protect people from themselves."

"I know the purists won't like this," he said. "But does there need to be some element of centralization that comes in that allows for some of the things that have to happen to make blockchain technology be more applicable to mainstream use cases?"

https://decrypt.co/101176/draftkings-ceo-jason-robins-on-crypto

Apparently BTC and others need centralized control to protect users. Rather conveniently it would also make it far easier to shut down any of his crypto-based competitors.