Decentralization is termin related for bitcoin not for mining.
Bigger question is distribution, and it is not so good. Decentralization is guaranteed because no one controlling bitcoin as one entity such as banks or government, and this is accomplished using wallets, and transaction through blockchain..

I don't see how it this bad?
Bitcoin have nothing with this. You can mine it or buy it.
Only if you don't like China economic growth supported with this mining farms (but this is insignificant at the global level). Bitcoin is good because you really don't need to know who was previous owner and where is mined, this is point!

How can mining be decentralised it is associated with price of mining and electricity, and if you can get cheap electricity, you will get more BTCs this can be changed in future. And most of btc will hold investors who are willing to buy them no matter where they live in China or Europe.
If Satoshi wakes up i doubt he will kill his child.

Not Password to login. passwd, to change the password, worked for me. You probably know already, since you're a networking/security professional, but this is how to use passwd;

passwd root
newpass
newpassagain
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/changing-password-of-specific-account-in-linux-commandline/

This revert the password to admin?

It wont be a backdoor unless you leave your router wide open as well. Still, passwd doesnt work?

how much hash power are we talking?

it would be very hard for him to do to the s5/s7 that he did for s3 because the s5/s7 use a read only file system. so once you reboot it, it will get set back to stock

Everyone keep in mind that this is all speculation at this point. Kano has not come right out and said what is going on. He hinted towards something in a couple posts, but let us wait until he confirms things himself. I sure he wants to get it all sorted out and be sure of things before he says anything.

coinbase sent email saying ghost block has been sorted out.
I need to check.
BTC inbound. Excellent. Was the analpaper block.

You can easy check all this informations on this site: https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/

That's weird...I received payments for 402505, 402347, and 402342 that came after 402133.  Of course, I never got payment for block #401842 that made it to Coinbase but not into my wallet (along with several others here as well).  No replies from Coinbase yet on that one.

it looks like today there is 2511 classic nodes to 1500 core nodes any thoughts.

I thought the post was pretty clear, it was " People are committing to spinning up thousands" and 'not thousands of people are committed to spinning up a node'-- it's a planned sybil attack-- and that is also what I've seen from this rise of "classic" "nodes". There are several less obvious node count measures that don't show the growth.

AFAICT, the latest strategy is to fake out the node counts with large numbers of sybils and then try to use that to pressure miners into adopting classic; which would then pressure actual users to go along with it. This isn't going to work, and most charitable way I can explain the strategies used by the people frantically pushing for a controversial hardfork is that the people involved in these forks keep thinking that everyone else in Bitcoin is stupid.  How else can you explain the faux urgency-- that almost no one bought-- or the bait and switch policies for miners-- to the cheap characterization that Bitcoin Core is all blockstream and so on?

All these nonsense and attacks frustrate me-- they waste a tone of time and energy that could be used driving Bitcoin forward.

Yep as it says now on the web site, it's an orphan.
The timing was very close so it simply depended on if anyone saw our block first, but that was unlikely due to the timing.
So basically we sent our block out on the relay (000026e9) but then got the other one (00001735) before ours came back
The relay is clearly running slow
We sent, then got the other one 652ms later, then finally got ours back 1537ms later.
i.e. they had sent it out on the relay just before we did, but we didn't get it from the relay until after we processed our block (which only took 240ms) and sent out our own