On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Several people have asked several times now: given the very real and
> widely acknowledged downsides that come with a soft fork, *what* is the
> specific benefit to end users of doing them?
>

Field experience shows it successfully delivers new features to end users
without a global software upgrade.