Unfortunately blocks are still not accepted, even with this patch you get an error with "miner does not HODL" or something similar..
Thanks OC, if you could post that error, it would be helpful and speed in getting this problem resolved for you.
Update on this: I was talking this through with Fuzzbawls and here is some information on current state of play.
In V2 - GetBlockTemplate will error out as it doesn't add a TX with hodled funds as is required post 86000 Fork
In Fuzzbawls patched version - iss67 - this problem is corrected and a coinbase TX with hodled funds is added.
https://github.com/hodlcoin/hodlcoin/tree/iss67_patchHowever, we assume existing pool and third party miner software is then overwriting this TX with an unhodl'd TX, resulting in a "miner does not HODL" error.
Therefore, we recommend pools and 3rd party miners use the iss67 patch, but either do not overwrite the TX, or overwrite it with a valid HODL'd TX.
I'm aware of the issue and I know how to fix it but I'm out of time for this project currently and to be honest my interest is also currently at some other coins/projects.
Maybe someday...