A little late, but I wanted to mention that I came to work on this because of the debate about block size and scaling ideas around the segwit update. Lots of op

A little late, but I wanted to mention that I came to work on this because of the debate about block size and scaling ideas around the segwit update. Lots of opinions are generally thrown around without a whole lot of data to back it up, so I wanted to put in the work to make a systematic framework for estimating and comparing alternatives. I wanted to make it easier for other people to evalute what bitcoin's actual bottlenecks are and the way their preferred solution would affect those bottlenecks.