kava, to add to my earlier comment, the guy you quote claims Duffield controls Dash. As the founding developer and still involved I am sure he has a lot of influence - which is true of every coin out there. But, Dash governance requires votes from the masternodes. There are 4100 of them all around the world, according to the site linked below. Now, perhaps you can call it biased as it is the Dash site, but what is to gain by lying about how many masternodes exist. So, I find it hard to believe Duffield controls 4100 masternodes all over the world and forces them to vote a certain way.

https://www.dash.org/masternodes2/