BTC hashpower seems to have gone down with block rate of around 30 mins
Based on whats visible, ANTPool, BTC.com and VIABTC have been mining BCH blocks heavily and not so many BTC.

Which pools are putting their hash power away from BTC?

You can do a RBF ("replace-by-fee") to replace an existing transaction with a new one.
If you are able to hand-craft transactions and the previous one was marked as RBF, it will be easy.
It is also be possible to double spend transactions not marked as RBF, though the chance is low. Try to rebroadcast the higher fee transaction repeatedly.

If not, then it'll be either confirmed within 72 hours or dropped, after which you can send it again.

It seems to me more of an attack on BCH than BTC, because, collectively malicious mining pools can reverse transactions easier on the latter chain because of the quick difficulty adjustment (in theory at least).

Next hardfork of bitcoin should try to take care of these mining pools trying to dominate hashrate, if that is possible. A few mining pools should not be allowed to swing the hashrate so much.. This is like a coordinated centralized attack.

Pool users should decide where the hashrate goes, not the operators. This is a problem for all cryptos but more for BCH, whose hashrate adjusts more quickly.

Seems miners are also intending to pump and dump. Antpool has been mining bch and not much btc over last 12 hours or so. Someone is looking for a huge pump dump.

Thanks.. Could not find this info anywhere in the English forums.

Good work. Is this project still going on?

I am more interested in knowing who told you that.

yes apparently bitcoin holders realized that they can also pull off an Ethereum-style hardfork and get money out of thin air.. ingenious idea. And done better then ETH.. because we have replay protection.
I was against in the beginning it but now am waiting for the next one.

You read that wrong. The difficult of that chain is 26% of that of bitcoin. This does not mean the hash rate is 26% .. its more like 5%.
Thats why the block time in BCC is hours, not minutes.

A simple way to calculate hash rate ratio:

If 26% of hash power was in BCC then a block will be found in 10 mins. If a block is found every hour, then hash rate is actually 26/6 or about 4 %

To track the actual hash rate, we need an accurate measure of average block time in BCC, which will take few more days to estimate better.

Thats why its in the "Altcoin Discussion" board. Irrespective of how much it sells for (even more than BTC), it is still an Altcoin despite what people say.

Here are the steps I followed:
1. Move BTC from existing address A to another one *after* fork has happened. Now we can worry less about compromising private key of existing address A.
2. Use Electron wallet inside a virtual machine, imported private key of address A. Soon your BCC balance will show in the wallet.
3. Move funds to ViaBTC (I used them, but you can use another)
4. Sell them for BTC.
5. Wait for 20 blocks for your deposit in Step 3.
6. Withdraw BTC
7. Profit!

(for multiple existing address, the procedure is pretty much the same).

Next fork is when? And would be great if its well planned so we have better options to dump the coins.

I am getting:

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)

Anyone else able to login? I am guessing its the load triggered some circuit breaker. Site had been working fine till this (no sign of slowness).

EDIT: was actually around 30 mins. Seems to be back

Why has the block time increased? I thought the reducing difficulty will make it stable.

interestingly two blocks were found pretty quickly compared to the first one. We are now at 478561

The difficulty of bcc/bch should drop soon as it has a different algorithm for auto-adjusting difficulty. So a block will be mined sooner or later.

This is wrong and fud. The best block hash for bcc is block #478558 which is part of the btc chain.

https://blockchain.info/block/0000000000000000011865af4122fe3b144e2cbeea86142e8ff2fb4107352d43

ViaBTC has been mining BTC... so did they lie or are they splitting their hash power?

I think this is right, as they claim to have replay protection ... so a BTC tx wont be valid there (not sure about vice versa).
Does the reverse also hold?

EDIT: Also, it could be that some miners are collecting BCC blocks and will push them out all at once (the "selfish miner" attack).