Quote from: gmaxwell on December 31, 2016, 09:54:11 PM

Quote from: Quickseller on December 31, 2016, 04:34:53 PM

Just because 95% of the blocks that the miners produce doesn't mean that non-mining Bitcoin related companies and other Bitcoin users support SegWit (Note: ready to implement != support).

Well no one is forced to implement it; so ready to implement does suggest a small amount of support at least. FWIW, before segwit's activation was set in Bitcoin Core I reached out directly to most of the non-mining Bitcoin related companies that I could fine to specifically prompt for opposition. I received back many positive responses, none opposed, and the only negative comment was from a party that hoped activation would take longer so they would have more time to add support-- it's still possible that they don't support it, apparently not enough to send a respond saying so. After that there was a public discussion on the bitcoin-development list and the only party that argued against it was Tom Zander.

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Technically speaking, the threshold is 50.694% (or potentially less depending on luck) for activation as the miners who support SegWit could decide to ignore blocks that lack a signal of support for SegWit.

Yep, only just over half is strictly needed if they're willing to orphan the other almost-half.

What would be the ramifications of orphaning potentially half of the blocks found? (Besides perhaps a delay in confirmation times?)