diff --git a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
index 6d91752d19..e2a093ff15 100644
--- a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
@@ -996,36 +996,6 @@ UniValue verifychain(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
     return CVerifyDB().VerifyDB(Params(), pcoinsTip, nCheckLevel, nCheckDepth);
 }
 
-/** Implementation of IsSuperMajority with better feedback */
-static UniValue SoftForkMajorityDesc(int version, CBlockIndex* pindex, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams)
-{
-    UniValue rv(UniValue::VOBJ);
-    bool activated = false;
-    switch(version)
-    {
-        case 2:
-            activated = pindex->nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP34Height;
-            break;
-        case 3:
-            activated = pindex->nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP66Height;
-            break;
-        case 4:
-            activated = pindex->nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP65Height;
-            break;
-    }
-    rv.push_back(Pair("status", activated));
-    return rv;
-}
-
-static UniValue SoftForkDesc(const std::string &name, int version, CBlockIndex* pindex, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams)
-{
-    UniValue rv(UniValue::VOBJ);
-    rv.push_back(Pair("id", name));
-    rv.push_back(Pair("version", version));
-    rv.push_back(Pair("reject", SoftForkMajorityDesc(version, pindex, consensusParams)));
-    return rv;
-}
-
 static UniValue BIP9SoftForkDesc(const Consensus::Params& consensusParams, Consensus::DeploymentPos id)
 {
     UniValue rv(UniValue::VOBJ);
@@ -1113,14 +1083,9 @@ UniValue getblockchaininfo(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
 
     const Consensus::Params& consensusParams = Params().GetConsensus();
     CBlockIndex* tip = chainActive.Tip();
-    UniValue softforks(UniValue::VARR);
     UniValue bip9_softforks(UniValue::VOBJ);
-    softforks.push_back(SoftForkDesc("bip34", 2, tip, consensusParams));
-    softforks.push_back(SoftForkDesc("bip66", 3, tip, consensusParams));
-    softforks.push_back(SoftForkDesc("bip65", 4, tip, consensusParams));
     BIP9SoftForkDescPushBack(bip9_softforks, "csv", consensusParams, Consensus::DEPLOYMENT_CSV);
     BIP9SoftForkDescPushBack(bip9_softforks, "segwit", consensusParams, Consensus::DEPLOYMENT_SEGWIT);
-    obj.push_back(Pair("softforks",             softforks));
     obj.push_back(Pair("bip9_softforks", bip9_softforks));
 
     if (fPruneMode)
diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
index 4477b0bbea..c37e4fa16c 100644
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -2315,14 +2315,10 @@ bool ConnectBlock(const CBlock& block, CValidationState& state, CBlockIndex* pin
     unsigned int flags = SCRIPT_VERIFY_P2SH;
 
     // Start enforcing the DERSIG (BIP66) rule
-    if (pindex->nHeight >= chainparams.GetConsensus().BIP66Height) {
-        flags |= SCRIPT_VERIFY_DERSIG;
-    }
+    flags |= SCRIPT_VERIFY_DERSIG;
 
     // Start enforcing CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) rule
-    if (pindex->nHeight >= chainparams.GetConsensus().BIP65Height) {
-        flags |= SCRIPT_VERIFY_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY;
-    }
+    flags |= SCRIPT_VERIFY_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY;
 
     // Start enforcing BIP68 (sequence locks) and BIP112 (CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY) using versionbits logic.
     int nLockTimeFlags = 0;
@@ -3526,13 +3522,11 @@ bool ContextualCheckBlockHeader(const CBlockHeader& block, CValidationState& sta
     if (block.GetBlockTime() > nAdjustedTime + 2 * 60 * 60)
         return state.Invalid(false, REJECT_INVALID, "time-too-new", "block timestamp too far in the future");
 
-    // Reject outdated version blocks when 95% (75% on testnet) of the network has upgraded:
-    // check for version 2, 3 and 4 upgrades
-    if((block.nVersion < 2 && nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP34Height) ||
-       (block.nVersion < 3 && nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP66Height) ||
-       (block.nVersion < 4 && nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP65Height))
-            return state.Invalid(false, REJECT_OBSOLETE, strprintf("bad-version(0x%08x)", block.nVersion),
+    // Reject outdated version blocks
+    if (block.nVersion < 4) {
+        return state.Invalid(false, REJECT_OBSOLETE, strprintf("bad-version(0x%08x)", block.nVersion),
                                  strprintf("rejected nVersion=0x%08x block", block.nVersion));
+    }
 
     return true;
 }
@@ -3559,7 +3553,7 @@ bool ContextualCheckBlock(const CBlock& block, CValidationState& state, const Co
     }
 
     // Enforce rule that the coinbase starts with serialized block height
-    if (nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP34Height)
+    if (block.nVersion >= 2)
     {
         CScript expect = CScript() << nHeight;
         if (block.vtx[0]->vin[0].scriptSig.size() < expect.size() ||