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Unlikely that Litecoin will need to "ram" it through. The client shows the version of connected peers and every connection to my wallet shows the latest update.

While that might be true, it's not really relevant to activation, which afaik requires 75% of blocks in a retarget period starting after the 28th be mined in support of segwit. Considering that f2pool controls nearly 50% of the network ( https://www.litecoinpool.org/pools ) and the same f2pool has so far not supported segwit for Bitcoin allegedly due to them not being able to compile c++11 they could easily block it themselves. There's also a handful of pools that control almost the entire other half of the network, so they could muster 25% between two or three of them.

By "ram it through" I just meant that Litecoin chose to go with 75% threshold like groestl as opposed to the unanimous consensus 95% threshold of Bitcoin. I said that I think it's likely it will go through in a month or so, but you have to have some skepticism considering f2pool controls half the network and how they've been acting re: segwit for Bitcoin.

“Since our system cannot build C++11, I would like put this on hold for a while, until we can get our new servers online up and running,” Chun said. “Next spring, maybe.”

Is this coin a 1:1 copy of Bitcoin, or did you change other parameters as well?

What difference does segwit make for groestlcoin? How does it improve performance? Market cap is tiny for this coin, is this the reason it could be easily implemented?

Launched in 2014, Groestlcoin has a total market cap of some $365,000, earning it the 163th spot on CoinMarketCap at time of publication. This makes it the smallest of the five altcoins aiming for SegWit but also the first to have actually succeeded in activating it. The required 95 percent of hash power signaled support back in January, and the protocol upgrade has been live since.

“Jackie,” who prefers not to reveal his full name, is the project lead for Groestlcoin.

“All the FUD [Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt] is false,” he told Bitcoin Magazine. “SegWit as a soft fork is about as safe as the CSV soft fork was — and you don’t hear anyone complain about that.”

As a digital currency that isn’t used much yet, Groestlcoin never faced scaling issues like Bitcoin. But Jackie said he considers SegWit a malleability fix first and foremost, which in turn enables features like the lightning network, atomic cross-chain transactions and other innovations.

“Less useful and elegant versions of lightning [network], TumbleBit and Mimblewimble were possible with the old version of Groestlcoin, but they are greatly enhanced now Segregated Witness is activated on the Groestlcoin network,” Jackie noted.

Not bad for a small coin  :) but are there any other plans on the horizon that we can look forward to from this coin. I bought a little  :) just might be worth the punt.