Blocksize still remains a highly discussed topic on Bitcoin forums, and even if we can't convince big blockers that big blocks are dangerous, I believe it's still important to keep debating it with them so newcomers will learn about it while reading those discussions.
In this light, I think it would be nice if we had some experimental data that ties various blocksizes to hardware requirements for running a full node. I know there's this
paper by BitFury, but it seems like their data is a theoretical prediction and not an actual benchmark.
1. Are there any real benchmarks available in the open? I've tried searching and haven't found anything.
2. How hard it would be to do some experiments in regtest or on private test network to make benchmarks for different blocksizes?