Centralization is an issue. How do we counteract?
Pooled forging / leasing forging power will be great for that. Coming with account control features, iirc.
But why is pooling aka centralization good?
I would like many nodes rather than a few.
pooled forging is to help the people that can't forge much alone.
This isn't send all your NXT to a single account which in general creates more a forging chance; but instead the nxt accounts all a part of the pool just lease forging power to the pool without giving any NXT to them outright. So don't think we would be giving up nodes
Unless I understand the whole thing wrong
Maybe, I have not made myself clear enough. Let me rephrase it:
The more node the better because if there are more nodes, less and less of them are malicious.
node = computing device
If you transfer your forging power to somebody, then his node becomes stronger and we have less nodes.