It's all good to quote Gmax, but I didn't say anyone was cheating, so I feel a bit straw-manned here. And incrementing your version number is precisely a polic

It's all good to quote Gmax, but I didn't say anyone was cheating, so I feel a bit straw-manned here. And incrementing your version number is precisely a policy advertisement, full stop. It is saying you are in compliance with v1/2/3 of the spec. If you want to lie about that to other miners, there may well be consequences.