F2Pool (also a HK signer, currently the #1 mining pool) now offers Classic voting for miners, as does Slushpool (they've published their voting results which also clearly doesn't show a consensus among miners: https://slushpool.com/stats/#voting-results )
I think both sides have been pretty politically adroit in their own domains, but to pretend that there aren't two sides, or to conclude which side has more support, or to even talk about takeovers, considering both sides have different visions for the evolution of the protocol (on-chain vs off-chain scaling may be the most succinct summary) makes me raise an eyebrow.
Jihan Wu (CEO of Ant Miner, Antpool, formerly #1 and currently #2 mining pool [1]) has been pretty vocal about his unhappiness with the HK meeting on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jihanwu and posted a very lengthy essay on 8btc. Partial translation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/495866/the_rbtc_china_...
F2Pool (also a HK signer, currently the #1 mining pool) now offers Classic voting for miners, as does Slushpool (they've published their voting results which also clearly doesn't show a consensus among miners: https://slushpool.com/stats/#voting-results )
Here is Classic's roadmap, just since you posted Core's: https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/documentation/blob/master/...
I think both sides have been pretty politically adroit in their own domains, but to pretend that there aren't two sides, or to conclude which side has more support, or to even talk about takeovers, considering both sides have different visions for the evolution of the protocol (on-chain vs off-chain scaling may be the most succinct summary) makes me raise an eyebrow.
[1] https://blockchain.info/pools