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On 03/26/2017 01:22 PM, Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Peter R via bitcoin-dev 
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org 
> <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
> 
> With a tightening of the rule set, a hash power minority that has 
> not upgraded will not produce a minority branch; instead they will 
> simply have any invalid blocks they produce orphaned, serving as a 
> wake-up call to upgrade.
> 
> False. With bip9-based soft-fork-based activation of segwit, miner 
> blocks will not be orphaned unless they are intentionally
> segwit-invalid (which they currently are not). If you have told
> miners otherwise, let me know.

Given the protocol requirements of the segwit proposal this is not the
case. A miner running pre-segwit code will produce blocks that no
segwit node will ever receive. It matters not whether these blocks
contain transactions that are invalidated by the soft fork. Despite
being valid to other pre-segwit nodes they will never be built upon by
the majority hash power once segwit activates.

At the same time, Peter's comment above is also incorrect. A "minority
branch" *is* a set of blocks that have been orphaned (the term orphan
being a misnomer, since these blocks of course have an ancestry all
the way to the genesis block). That's precisely what is implied by the
word "minority". So his description contradicts itself.

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