Looks like you've spent a good amount of time writing these articles. I commend you for that. Very helpful information.
Thanks :-) I like to try understand how things really work. Some of these only take 3 or 4 hours to write, but a few take several days. The ones with MC simulations tend to take more like a week because the simulations take about 10 hours to run.
I've just posted another one with an assessment of transaction fees and the cost of transactions to the network:
http://hashingit.com/analysis/35-the-future-of-bitcoin-transaction-fees