Here you go:

It's a from this thread. I should note that F2pool's statement was a bit ambiguous (their actual statement should be somewhere on the subreddit).

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/418mcg/f2pool_joins_the_team_now_72_of_the_hashrate/

Just to clarify, Classic does not exist yet so these miners are not really running it. This is all politics really they either tweeted or mentioned they would run it and someone threw that into a theoretical chart. I don't think they are really ready to move away from Core, I see it as a way to pressure Core. I think this drama will continue this is just the latest topic of dicussion.

Well Core just released the release candidate for v0.12, so lets see if BTC just ends up going with that.

Middle Eastern stock market carnage.

You'll no doubt enjoy a quiet Sunday afternoon reading the latest doomsayer commentaries on the economic prognoses then:

http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/96307/deflation-monster-has-arrived

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-16/exclusive-dallas-fed-quietly-suspends-energy-mark-market-tells-banks-not-force-shale

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/welcome-to-the-new-normal-the-dow-crashes-another-390-points-and-wal-mart-closes-269-stores

This is probably a matter of terminology, but those pools listed on their site actually showed their support here and said they would be willing to switch -> https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/website/issues/3

@torknormal, read your post after posting this one, but as far as I know there isn't a Bitcoin Classic client out yet. Thus, basically no one is able to run it yet. Also, as far as I know no changes have been made yet, so it's currently just a fork of Bitcoin Core.

Thanks ! Naeborra.

I only got here a little over 2 years ago, and at that time, it already started to become clear that Bitcoin was going to be a tool, not for regular folk, but rather banks and large institutions.  I would think, that when they transfer huge sums of money, the fees will be nothing to them, virtually free.  It's a nice little tool that has the best marketcap to adopt and I already suspect the full nodes being run are actually run by the banks, etc...  I was upset at the idea at the time, but now I see that nature creates infrastructure that is needed, and that infrastructure will be and has been what allows people to move from fiat to crypto and their adoption legitimizes Bitcoin in a way no other adoption can.  Sure, money drives it (they bought out the main developers) but they can't stop the revolution.  The banks are stuck between a rock and a hard place, they have to adapt or die, and their adoption of Bitcoin simply loosens their grip on control.

Side chains and second tier funds are likely to come of this, but people will have a choice.  And that's what is important.  I realized a month or so ago that there simply are always going to be people who want to be babied, to be coddled by their government/society, to live within arbitrary rules because they "keep the order" or some such reason.  And there will always be people who feel they've been put into a straitjacket by the government and society.  I started wondering if somehow society can create an opt-in nanny world, and a more independent world, but realized it can never happen.  The nanny world needs the money from the independents and always will.  So we simply have to keep fighting for our right to live independently. Oh well, at least you old cryptographers and young programmers who think outside the box finally cracked the nut, and you will get that pendulum swinging back to a more sane direction, God willing.  And it has the potential to be a revolution of the most significance in the history of mankind, yet peaceful.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend (birthday was last Friday, Holiday is tomorrow) I can't help but see the parallels