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OP Last edited: 23:49GMT 29/06/2016
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Hi all,

We've set up this thread on Bitcointalk to co-ordinate information on #BitcoinSurvey 2016, an international survey on bitcoin usage being conducted by BitcoinsInIreland.com . Our central location for this will be http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoinsurvey-2016-launches-in-11-languages/ . Check out #BitcoinDachshund on Twitter at https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23bitcoindachshund&src=typd as he's helping us out.

The survey is openly conducted, as we did in the past with #BitcoinSurvey 2015 (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=987941.0;all & https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1017295.0 ), and non-bitcoin research on the Irish Games Industry (search Games Industry in Ireland 2012, #IrishGameDev Map, #IrishGameDev Timeline).

Much of the bitcoin related research to date is either locked behind a paywall, and therefore unavailable to the broader public, or focused on North America. As we're Irish, we're taking an international approach, and conducting the survey in eleven languages, Arabic, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish & Turkish. Thanks to the community, it's also in Albanian and Chinese.

The survey looks at a broad range of bitcoin usage, and as it covers quite a range of topics across the 35 questions, we have put up some bitcoin as rewards for participants across the surveys. We are putting up 1.25 bitcoin in prizes, which will be distributed as follows.

start of May - 5 participants will be drawn from survey respondents up to that date, and each of them will be sent 0.05 bitcoin each. - Reward proof is at https://blockchain.info/tx/09c4e2921c6f11fe08f8d574a0b20c2750c21aab5eca4060d855243157e98d1f

start of June - 5 participants will be drawn from survey respondents up to that date, and each of them will be sent 0.05 bitcoin each. - Rewards proof is at https://blockchain.info/tx/096807e1e4ef73c60e89ad9393d553a49a54cf60292708de29506e24aa8693aa

start of July - 5 participants will be drawn from survey respondents up to that date, and each of them will be sent 0.05 bitcoin each.

An additional name will then be drawn in July at the same time, and this will be given 0.5 bitcoin, giving a total of 1.25 in rewards distributed. Proof of payment will also be posted. There's some simple rules, bot/macro filled in surveys will have all of them excluded, as will duplicate entries. When doing the draw, we will record the process of selecting those who got something for full transparency, and post the videos to YouTube.

So it would be great if we could get people to participate and share the survey, and we're open to any questions!

Cheers

The Bitcoinsinireland.com Team

Survey links:
Albanian - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-albanian/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-albanian/)
Arabic - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-chinese/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-chinese/)
Chinese - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-arabic/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-arabic/)
English - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-english/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-english/)
Finnish - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-finnish/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-finnish/)
French - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-french/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-french/)
German - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-german/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-german/)
Italian - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-italian/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-italian/)
Polish - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-polish/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-polish/)
Romanian - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-romanian/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-romanian/)
Russian - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-russian/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-russian/)
Spanish - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-spanish/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-spanish/)
Turkish - http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-turkish/ (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/international-bitcoin-survey-2016-turkish/)

The french link doesn't work, redirects to a page not found.

I'm confused, how do I take the survey?

Same question. Can't see a link to the actual survey, just the introduction + FAQs.

I'm guessing it's not yet opened and this is just an announcement.

I'll be happy to take part in it.

When will this survey be online? Because, as others users said alredy - there is no link to actual Survey, just introduction post. Or am I missing it?
Secondly - I checked transation of introduction post in some languages and it is quite funny that you translated words like 'Blockchain' - please don't do that - it can be more confusing this way.

Hi guys,

Thanks for those, I hadn't set the surveys to live! All the preparation... ;p

@Alex514, I've fixed this now so it should be working
@Jushie, if you go to the corresponding language's intro page, the link should send to the start of the survey now
@pawel7777 & @Hazir, they're open now to be done!

How many question will be in the survey, if the number is not high i would participate in helping translating into a language that it is not listed there, also would be happy to participate in the survey, the reward is pretty good.

@n691309 the survey has 35 questions, but not every question is mandatory. What language are you thinking that isnt in? We have localisation files to make it easier wen we were doing the translations

Just comleted the survey and happy to do it.   

Butd let me tell you italian translation is really terrible.

I could get the meaning of some questions only thanks to my english knowledge otherwise no way t understand themsome of them..

Guess you used an automatic translator.

I have sent you a PM.


How did you completed the survey, none of the link above of bitcoinsinireland.com is opening to me!

Survey has been completed in French. Takes only a few minutes and very well done.

The link is right under the sharing icons before the actual article. I search for it a while lol.

It isn't there for the english version.

@hopenolate one of my friends from the games industry did the localisation, was there particular terminology that you found problematic?

Also, I've reworked the location of the sharing buttons, so it'll be easier to be seen.

@knightdk, thanks for that, it's fixed now. been a long day getting all these done

Since this is an international survey, we should also include the Chinese. I can help you to find a translator for your survey.

@7788bitcoin if you could help on that, that would be great

OK. Completed. All worked fine, bit shorter than expected.

I'm done. Great survey...

I am happy to help. Please send me the information.

just ask
why you not add Indonesian language (bahasa indonesia) i think you will get more participants from indonesia

Thanks to those of you who completed the survey so far, we've 17 responses in the first few hours :) i'll touch base with those who offered further localisation tomorrow!

open link on first page,you will direct to survey page.
i think this is good surveey to knowing that bitcoin has develop better in Ireland,i wish some europan countries follow this step to get accurate and sasified respond.

I just clicked this link  :)


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here are some words whose translation sounds really weird:

 - miners : wouldn't translate at all but it's not that weird until you translate "cloud miners"

 - exchange : wouldn't translate

 - faucet: wouldn't translate

there are also a bunch of elementary spelling mistakes  but they don't keep us from understanding questions properly.



Just out of curiosity: in question #4 you ask "male or female"; possible answers are 1) maschio (uomo) 2) female (donna) 3) non ancora (not yet) : concerned about that not yet  :D

Can i suggest that to add philippines in the survey because many filipino users and staker are love bitcoin i think they can give good reviews on survey what you wish to give on us and were doing good in business by then. Try to visit philippine section were you can see people rotating threads daily.

When I made that post the survey wasn't live. OP got it fixed shortly after and I completed it (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1443205.msg14599369#msg14599369). Thanks anyway.

Hi all,

We're catching up with things now, and I'm having a chat with the guys helping me on the survey, and we'll respond to those of you who offered localisation help.

We're up to 42 responses so far, thanks everyone! We're also up to 15 countries on the English survey!
http://i67.tinypic.com/29613qp.png
Also, we'd like to introduce #BitcoinDachshund on Twitter https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23bitcoindachshund&src=typd who's helping us with the survey ;p

@ETFbitcoin if you want to PM me some suggestions, I'm happy to add them in for next year's survey, we can't add to the survey questions that are running now unfortunately, but the threads about ideas and we're happy to have them!

@hopenotlate I've passed your feedback onto the guys here, i think we can edit the questions if it's a simple grammer area. And the gender question was for male/female/not telling!

good initiate,i think philipines have good future on bitcoin movement,we all know about coins.ph its popular and god exchnage in Asia,i think its better for you to pm op to add your country.

Answered :) Your surveys are always nice and really comprehensive. Good luck everyone for the rewards :D

ive done my survey it was nice to remeber how i started using bitcoin and how i was able to introduced it to someone and actually use it.  :D

if other are still confused on how to get to the actual survey the link is just above the paragraph.

on some questions it would be great to have more than one option to choose.

for example what kind of wallets do i use: i use more than one different method...
or how i use an exchange. There is missing the option to buy altcoins as well...

i do have same questions too for OP because many bitcoin users in indonesian currently and might be will interested with your surveys
and i wish in the future you will put in indonesian language into your survey

What is the goal of this survey? It is the first time I see a survey being done in several different languages, so that is something refreshing. You can now break up this survey results according to regions, which is quite clever. The reward is also a good idea, and will most probably increase the participants.

Keep us posted with the outcome of this survey, I would like to know how many people still make use of faucets these days. ^smile^

Hello I would like to ask if it's mandatory to fill in everything from the 'please help us understand...' boxes that sometimes accompany some questions after I have chosen an answer? Or simply picking an answer will suffice in most cases?

Hmm. Just finished doing it in the Arabic language and would like yo say that the translation was perfect!! 

Good luck with this year's survey.

i can't access the survey, the screen show 'ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT' to me with a sad square face :( i used the English link. i didn't and won't try the other language link.

I wanted to try out the Romanian survey, mostly to see how is it translated. But no luck: ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

Nice survey... took me about 10 minutes to finish, now i hope i'll win  ;D

Hi all,

Thanks for everyone's responses so far, we've just passed 80 responses from 28 countries!!!

http://i67.tinypic.com/2cmx37o.png

So in answer to some of your comments.

Re: additional localisations, I'm just discussing what's involved with the team here about adding additional languages. We know that the localisation takes some time, so we're considering putting up a helper fund of 0.25 bitcoin, to be divided by all of the people who can contribute a localisation. We have google docs with the English, so that we can get this information back quickly. I'll contact people who PM'ed me in a few. I know this means that the more people who contribute, the less each will get, but if that doesn't turn people off we'd be glad to get it into extra languages as suggested in the thread.

@schnib on the altcoin question, that's true, we can add that into next years survey, once it's started we couldn't. For the wallets, it should be multiple choice, so what language were you doing and we can check the settings?

@Kakmakr thanks for the feedback. It's for exactly those reasons that we want to have the different languages, so we can see separately if people are different or the same in their use of bitcoin, and then we can combine the figures for a mega report.

@Wendigo for questions that are mandatory, this relates to the answer. The extra information is always optional. ie in the question, have you lost coins, and if so what were the circumstances, you can answer, but not fill in what happend. I hope this clarifies!

@NeuroticFish thanks a million for flagging this, we found out that the polldaddy URL had a ț in it, so we've updated the links on our side. If you try again, it should work now!

@znickelbackz can you let me know if you are coming in from Turkey (pm me if you want)? We've had some reports of issues specifically from there and are investigating this to try and see what the problem is

@ahmedjamal1998 thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it on to the guy who did the Arabic localisation for us :)

this question "How many times have you bought hardware?" should have multiple options i think

because it's asking for a progressing thing....

Thanks for the opportunity!
The Survey is done. :)

I finally figured out how to do the survey lol! Thanks.

if i'm from Turkey i may have used the Turkish link at the first place. no, i'm not from Turkey. you have to investigate about your issuses with Turkey from someone else, sorry.

Survey Completed

Thank you for completing this survey!

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It was really fine survey and I enjoyed doing it. I have one question tho - It is possible to fill the survey multiple times to increase chances of winning that raffle?

Hi all,

Thanks for everyone's participation so far, we're now up to 158 responses across all languages so far, and a new response is coming in every few minutes which is great to see.

We also investigated some of the connection issues with our web host, so hopefully anyone who was running into connection problems shouldn't have them. If you do, please let us know what page / survey you're having the problem with.

Thanks!

Jamie

Hi all,

So it's Sunday, with the survey only running for about 5 days, and we're nearly at 200 responses already! I'm keeping a running total in the OP.

Also, there's been a load of new countries in, so our map of the world is filling in nicely!

http://i68.tinypic.com/2qntvo7.png

So thanks to everyone who's participated so far.

@Amph - Sure, we can factor this into next years survey, it's a good point.

How can we certain that any of the participants will get paid their reward of bitcoin? So as I understand it not everybody who takes part in it will get paid anything. :-\

@iram66680 that's a very good question :)

Ok, so on this, last year as we went we published proof of payments on the forums here, and these are at http://bitcoinsinireland.com/bitcoinsurvey-report-2015/ via https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/address/1LUD7xavJo1um3toduKCpKu1tcKM4RmgPD/transactions . In the last transaction, one of those drawn had put in a bitcoin address missing a digit, so we emailed them, and re-arranged this.

This year, we'll be recording the draw and posting it to youtube for the winners, and then posting the results. I just bought some bitcoin so I've the 0.251 (extra for fees) which I'm going to transfer later today to a dedicated address, and will sign a message from it to prove it's there. It's a bank holiday weekend in Ireland for the 1st of May, so once we get back after this, we'll send it out. But there's about 220 responses now,  so with 0.05 x 5, that's a 1 in 44 chance of being drawn, less when we deduct those who tried to game the system by putting in duplicate ones ;p

And we wouldn't be getting this on two of the biggest Irish tech sites at https://www.siliconrepublic.com/life/2016/04/20/bitcoin-survey-cryptocurrency-blockchain-ireland-prizes (https://www.siliconrepublic.com/life/2016/04/20/bitcoin-survey-cryptocurrency-blockchain-ireland-prizes) and http:irishtechnews.net/ITN3/international-bitcoinsurvey-2016-in-11-languages-with-1-25-bitcoin-in-rewards/ (http://http:irishtechnews.net/ITN3/international-bitcoinsurvey-2016-in-11-languages-with-1-25-bitcoin-in-rewards/) if we were taking the piss ;p

Hi all,

The OP has been updated with a note that we transferred April's rewards, as well as a message signed showing we own the address at the bottom of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1443205.msg14598046#msg14598046

Hi all,

I'm going to be AFK for a couple of days, but by colleague Nic (irishnic) will be monitoring the thread to answer any questions you have, as well as giving some updates in terms of the survey.

Thanks

Jamie

Survey has been going really well this week - we're already at more responses then we had for all of last year!

We're also getting more responses from more countries!

http://i66.tinypic.com/qppeue.png

A big thank you to everyone who's completed the survey and spread the word!

We should be able to provide even more information about how everyone's using bitcoin when the survey finishes :)


- Nic

I think you need to add India language and Indonesian. there are a lot of Indian and Indonesian here. they may be the participants of this.

anyway don't use machine to translate. many people complain about that.

good luck for your survey

Hi all,

Just recovering from a wedding, but there's 314 responses to #bitcoinsurvey2016 so far which is great. We're going to cut the results, remove out the duplicates, and then we'll have list, from which we'll record the process of selecting the winners, and we'll post proof of the transaction when we do this.

Anyone who doesn't get drawn will continue to be eligible for later amounts, as well as the top amount in July.

Trezor works a bit different than Armory, so the funds for this are now at https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/address/1FRCyKmDNRgAW6qLZsJmp56oeXVRoCtXrA (https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/address/1FRCyKmDNRgAW6qLZsJmp56oeXVRoCtXrA)

Hi all,

I've exported all the results up to now, so we've a bit of work to do before we can do up the draw.

Once that's done, we can set up #BitcoinDachshund to hit go on our Trezor.

He's helping out at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIgpNLzhbkOCdb2Lw40j8YQATCz2-KTqF (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIgpNLzhbkOCdb2Lw40j8YQATCz2-KTqF) if you want to see how the survey is laid out

Crosspost from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1462697.new#new

As promised, we've recorded the draw for the #BitcoinSurvey2016 responses. We had over 300 people participate so far, from a wide range of countries.

The video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vv2AwKImgg

The draw winners were

1D3uAg8iBjsALmoVjHewXwdPRHXAv99vGK
16mbfQNLA3D3dkku3nVmkCrxNhcnr1A1Bk
19BUhf27Gamk2gXVYvEkbUmDazvnQYKb7h
1PoXyGqhrccFhmMheXwKDzYPGrhjvtEnz4
35juCZEm1H6ZAs4G6XuKANDw5Zofau2sLZ

The transaction proof is at https://blockchain.info/tx/09c4e2921c6f11fe08f8d574a0b20c2750c21aab5eca4060d855243157e98d1f

There's still 2 more draws for a further 0.25 each, plus the 0.5 reward once the survey is done. Take part today!

Jamie

We're continuing to have people fill in the different surveys, and we've passed 400 responses! We've also added Chinese and Albanian to the languages.

While your site still doesn't load (at least for me), I guess that I will still not "take part today".

you guys are doing a very good work on this project. thanks

@killerjoegreece thanks

@NeuroticFish which language survey were you running into the problem with? We've had that report from a couple of people, it seems that certain configs of ubuntu, or VPN's are triggering our web host's firewall

At first when I visited the link provided by OP, I wasn't able to understand how to do the survey until I started reading from the top (I usually don't read from the top, rather from the middle, down, then the top). That was a 'normal' length survey. Not too short, yet not too long and the questions were easy to understand. I hope the success for this survey!

How about for philippines do you have a survey for philippines if you are not accepting philippines can i try use vpn? to join in this task?

I'm having issue opening the link of the survey, so far I'm getting this error:

Hi all,

A bit of fun for a Friday evening, I've updated the map of participants which is below, thanks everyone!

http://i66.tinypic.com/2z9jwpi.jpg

@davinchi yeah, the OP is being updated with the running total and details on the survey rewards distribution

@john2231 we did add albanian and chinese because people helped out, and we have a modest reward for volunteers. I know there was some forum posts talking about Filipino, but if you want to PM me, I can get you in touch with my colleague who has the localisation files.

@n691309 , what's the link you're clicking that's giving you that error? As I said in a previous post, our web host's firewall is filtering some people (sorry guys, pm me what language you want, and I'll send you the direct link to polldaddy), but that particular error is a new one

Mine does not work either

I just completed the survey :) Using English link. Great Survey! Thank you

This time I tried Romanian. On Chrome for Windoze. No VPN, no odd settings.
A few weeks ago I tried EN and RO, same result.

None of the links above does not work for me, don't know what happened maybe my region? If you can send me the direct link to polldaddy.

Hi all,

There's the last few days in May to go before we do our next draw for the next 5x 0.05 bitcoin, which will be happening mid-next week. Take part today to have a shot at it! If you're running into technical issues with the link in the OP, send me a PM!

Thanks

Jamie

What a price spike there's been in the last few days! We've one more day to go before we cut the winners for #BitcoinSurvey 2016's May draw.

There's 444 responses, less 5 who won last month, so that's a 1 in ~88 chance of being picked as it stands right now! We'll be doing our next draw before the weekend, so have your say now, to be in with a chance of winning 0.05 bitcoin which is worth ~$27 or ~€24

The links are in the OP at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1443205.msg14598046#msg14598046

9 more hours to go before we cut the list for people eligible for the May draw. Have your say today!

The May payment proof is at https://blockchain.info/tx/096807e1e4ef73c60e89ad9393d553a49a54cf60292708de29506e24aa8693aa and a video of the draw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWeZPDQrwY&feature=youtu.be&a

There's less than two weeks left, and still 0.75 bitcoin to be distributed. So participate now , links are in the OP at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1443205.0

Cheers

Jamie

just finished english version of survey, good thing its a good survey and not boring one that takes ages, this took me about 10mins :)
good job.

hmmm, this is interesting when thinking about the casual survey i was doing