You guys are in full damage control mode today, huh? I see all the familiar faces (all 4 of you) posting like madmen.
Huh?? I'm pointing out facts:
Asicboost is supposed to be incompatible with segwit, that's what
the whole grand conspiracy is about here... yet Bitmain supports
segwit as long as it can have bigger blocks.
...
You are assuming that when the miners signed the HK agreement,
they already knew what the final SegWit implementation would be.
The reality is that they did not perform their due diligence until after
SegWit was released. When the miners signed the "agreement" they
signed a promise based on a design that was still being worked out.
It is very likely that when ASICBoost Miners learned that the
coinbase is altered in SegWit, they would never follow through with
the full terms of the HK "agreement".
ASICBoost Miners, in theory, can never support new coinbase
references. The issue is not SegWit, it is the Coinbase data.