A hardfork does **not** require 17/20 in a strict sense: Yes, it is a *custom* to enact them at that point, and generally respected as a means to avoid a blockchain split. However it is possible to *hard fork* that meta-rule itself, at any support level. 

That would likely result in a split, no matter what subchain is longer, but only one of the sides owns the branding, has the exchange listings, and has the capacity to support core development.

The community's hard fork is becoming something imminent for our freedom!

Just wanted to let you know @gandhibaba that I've read your post and I don't have any more words to express my feelings about entire situation.

It's hard to imagine any project/product being succesful, knowing that open conflict between major investor and group of witnesses and community, which was supposed to be major asset and is becoming major liability. It's hard to stay optimistic.

Reality is that we can see if all those witnesses supported by us (me included) will start supporting solid content creators and communities. Or will they continue they old ways.

Cheers, Piotr

This that you raise seems a story of conspiracies and dirty game @gandhibaba... desperation on one hand and looking for hard solutions on the other... but, it is a possibility, there is a lot of money at stake, and to wait the 13 weeks that correspond to the normal shutdown until now, for who invested money that does not belong to him, well, they must be under pressure and in those conditions people do not think anything good... the reality is that the future of this platform is still uncertain and really is in the hands of few of us.

In fact, Binance has disabled the option to withdraw STEEM.

There is still the possibility of changing it to another cryptocurrency but the STEEM will remain within the exchange. I don't know if this situation is repeated in Poloniex.

This seems to me a rude attitude on the part of the exchange authorities.

The intention is to retain that power, perhaps, to hold the next round of witness votes.

The title is correct. Stay tuned! I own this place. 

I'm glad that someone is keeping on top of this mess

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There is a certain touch of fun in my mind to see that the exchange houses that conspired calculated their action badly due to the time of shutdown, although they were sure to reduce it, I think they did not expect the adverse reaction of the community to be so fast that will take away the possibility of introducing a change in powerdown time

well this is a game of power and politics, and I see that in the end the users will be the ones who will be harmed the most. It is crazy to change the time to 1-3 days. That will give a fatal blow to steemit. 

Of course, about three hours ago CZ tweeted that Binance was going to start powering down the stake that was powered up.  We will see when it happens but I think CZ is now to the point he isnt buying Sun's b.s.

That said, there are still moves for him to desperately make.  The challenge is he has no Steem developers left.  As we saw a number of times pulling off a hard fork even with people who know the software is very difficult.  It is highly unlikely that a hard fork by Tron does anything other than crash the entire blockchain.

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Man you predicted it. There trying to do it today