>> 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 t>o 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.
He stated that "any invalid blocks they produce" will be orphaned. This is not false. If non-upgraded miners do not produce blocks that are invalid per the new rules, their blocks will not be orphaned. This is consistent with Peter's comment.
-Trevin