There are 2 big miners on nanopool, if they leave when the network gets the right difficulty, the problem will repeat in a lower scale right? i assume those 2 big miners are from nicehash

Agreed. If the difficulty go down tomorrow and those 2 stop mining, we the rest of the miners will get biggest shares also since the difficulty will drop even further after their stoppage. Point is that we need to mine in many pools and not in nanopool only since that centralization in mining is bad for any cryptocoin.

2 big miners on nanopool from etn team..i think they r rented hashpower

Dont let the current situation fool you; trust me.

They have a patent for Instant Transactions Tech. They hired a Monero Dev and have other blockchain experts.

They are not the "deer in headlights" regarding tech as they are preceived to be.

Lets just say, step back and look big picture and things make more sense

Yes i also remember u guys hired an Ericcson engineer?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrelpg/

@boxalex, i think that u think in the wrong way (excuse me if i'm wrong),
Do you mean centralize/decentralize or closed source opensource?
What i am trying to say: ETN is opensource, but like in the whole tech world, some patents are very, very important to secure your business model.

If you want that some technique u create will be able to use in the real world (like instant payments in this way ETN is doing), u must have an patent on it.
Still, every dev in this world is free to create his own technique. So they are blocking nobody on this way, they just secure there own technique what is normall (beter, its very good that they have an patent on this).

Also, what if ETN didnt get a patent on that technique, and what if another team decide to patent it.. ETN would lose there own technique, so before someone else get a patent, you must be first. So yes, it's very good that ETN decide to patent an usefull technique what they created.

I hope u can see it on this way so it makes more sense for you (because i didn't even start about all the positive things about this patent. 1st, they got an stamp on there name in the tech world by this patent)

hello

same problem minted balance not send

I'am not the patent expert but only have some limited overview on it or/and basic knowledge, but in my opinion:

- nobody can patent open source, means nobody could force out ETN to use it's own research/technology.

- a patent can only be registered by a real person, group of persons or of course companies. Either you have it on open source (decentralized) or patented (centralized), one just excludes the other.

- every open source project is able in real world (as you describe it) to use open source, no need of a patent at all.

- patents serve for 2 things, monetizing the patent eventually later and/or protecting competition to use the same technology. Again, both are against decentralization, hence when it comes to patents every believer in decentralization should have real concerns here.

- eventually and maybe there is an option a given patent can be used by everyone without any restrictions for FREE, enough the patentholder gets mentioned for example. This would be the only case i could think it would "decentralization confirm", but than again, open source is practically the same, why waste big amount of money for a patent registration?!

As said, i'am not the expert and just writing this with common sense and logic, if someone has better more accurate info, please add it or correct by thoughts.

For me (outsider) its hard to answer this question, but BTC is also centralised then, some Bitcoin Payment Providers got an patent on how they handle Bitcoin transactions.
Is BTC centralised because of this? Maybe its a strange example..

If u want to be serious, if you want companies gonna take you serious, you must be serious too. With this patent u know a lil bit where ETN is standing (; on a serious position).

The way how you look at this patent, its a lil bit negative (well, i dont know if u are negative, it looks like that haha!), but there are only positive things what i can imagine. There are many problems with many coins why they would never be THE coin where u can do worldwide payments.
If you look what ETN already did, what they are doing and what they are going to do, it solves all those problems.

U can not be only there for miners and there things on exchanges, u must be and think bigger then just buy/sell on exchange. To do the reall big thing, u must think big and ur actions must also be big. Centralised or decentralised is not the big matter.

I dont say ETN is centralised, i also don't say ETN is decentralised.

Linux kernel is a remarkable piece of open source code. However, development is centralised. Only a few top developers (mainly Linus Torvalds himself) choose what chunk of code goes to the main branch.

Similar to that, ETN code is open source, however development is centralised. The blockchain nodes and miners are decentralised, but mobile miner is centralised. Desktop wallet is decentralised, but mobile wallet is centralised.

Don't think other cryptos are different. Same goes for Bitcoin. The blockchain system which is decentralised was created (allegedly) by Satoshi (centralised development). Now we have BIPs and a group of people maintaining the code, but still -- development is centralised.  

In each case, we have a mix of centralised and decentralised components.