A lot of folks are confusing some perceived lack of fairness of miners "reward" with a failure to decentralize.

Again, transactions are _not_ picked by miners. Miners _confirm_ via "discovering" a valid hash for proto-blocks that _nodes_ pick. Not miners.

So, a few miners having a large % of the hashrate isn't alarming from a decentralization standpoint, these guys are just spending lots of money to acquire more ARO very early in the project. This is a valid choice for them; it doesn't hurt ARO 'cept for FUD'ders who haven't bothered reading about ARO or understanding where the decentralization comes from.

Decentralization of transaction / block formation / validation of blocks --> these tasks happen at the nodes, not the miners.

Miners are not the sources of decentralization for this coin...

Not sure how else I can describe it, since people seem intent on ignoring this.