# What made me change my mind about Zcash **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [June 15, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-made-me-change-my-mind-about-zcash/42212 "2022-06-15T04:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![nullius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/nullius/32/20935_2.png) [@nullius](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/nullius)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-made-me-change-my-mind-about-zcash/42212/14 "2022-07-11T07:13:32Z")
> [@steve.b](#): > > Who’s arguing to “give up”?? Is seeking to check a move to hamstring your access to its use [by using a more energy-efficient algo] “giving up”?? Maybe it’s giving up on PoW; but it’s not giving up on blowing away a semi-plausible reason to marginalize you… This argument is predicated on the unexamined assumption that POS is a drop-in replacement for POW, providing equal or better (a) security and (b) economics. False on both points. > [@steve.b](#): > > Well, fortunately we found the solution to that: the [Bitcoin] Foundation was blown up. Yes, and Bitcoin has _thrived_ since then! Decentralization for the win. Who needs a centralized foundation? I do recognize that in today’s environment, startup coins perforce need to start with some centralization. I do hope that over time, ECC and ZF could bootstrap the ecosystem to the point that it _can_ achieve greater decentralization. I think that some of the principals there would probably love that; they are idealists about this kind of thing—sometimes even too much so, in my opinion. > [@steve.b](#): > > its [Bitcoin’s] tendency to be manipulated by many interests. That is a fancy way of saying that Bitcoin is truly decentralized: No one party can control it, so yes, there are always many irreconcilably conflicting interests trying to pull it in all different directions. Thanks for agreeing with me. > [@steve.b](#): > > It was impossible to make any move at the Foundation without shrieks that it was to somebody’s personal benefit. The so-called “Bitcoin Foundation” was irredeemably corrupt. Its continued organizational viability would have destroyed Bitcoin to the point that I would have become an activist _against_ Bitcoin. Good riddance. Imagine how much more robust Zcash will be, if someday it can grow to the point that it does not need any centralized entities of such a nature! It is a dream I’d be willing to work for. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-made-me-change-my-mind-about-zcash/42212)._