Ok I saw the article about Jeff Garzik flying to Asia
and talking to "Haobtc, OKCoin, Bitmain, Bither, LIGHTNINGASIC".
I'll wait for the official story,but it seems like
Bitfury supporting classic is a much bigger
deal. They are a major pool.
Bither and Haobtc are just wallets from what I can
tell, and Okcoin is an exchange.
So to me, in the last 24 hours, Classic is winning
but that's just my biased opinion.
You are ignoring the deal F2Pool made a couple days ago with core and Bitfurys unclear support (both a nod or support and an article attacking Classic Principles)
Regardless , I may join you and start supporting classic temporarily because a hard fork may be a solution to the problem with mining centralization --
If there were a sustained hard fork, we would support both coins. I think this is extremely unlikely to happen, however, as it would require > 75% of the miners to agree to it. The other 25% mining the old chain would be in a very weak state and would quickly switch rather than risk being attacked by the other guys.
I don't know ... After some consideration I am more sympathetic to Guy Corem's position that competing coins post fork would be great . I would likely buy many GPU's and BTC Core coins as well with an ASICproof algo behind the coin.
http://pastebin.com/B8YQr5TQBoth coins will surely take a large beating initially, but one would become more decentralized and one more corporate over time. In a way I am somewhat disappointed that the Chinese miners appear to be getting behind core. I may have to switch sides temporarily and support classic to insure this split happens for the good of the ecosystem.
Unfortunately, with all this miner backroom deals with core I don't know if we will have an opportunity for a fork. I now have mixed opinions on the matter.