Some of Bitcoin’s Core developers have left the Bitcoin project and started building their separate cryptocurrency called DECRED. DECRED aims to prevent the issues Bitcoin is currently facing regarding project governance and development funding. CEO of ‘Company 0’, Jacob Yocom-Piatt, who has funded Bitcoin development since early 2013, said the actual development of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency is funded by external entities that forms a conflict of interests between the groups and the project’s core developers. The team has the advantage to make Decred a really great product as they already have experience with Bitcoin.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/decred-bitcoin-currency.html