Bitcoin Forum

Hello all,

I am a researcher at the University of Manchester in the UK and I have a long standing interest in Bitcoin, as well as owning some of the currency. There remains lots of further research to be undertaken into Bitcoin from different angles and I have a particular interest in the political challenge to the existing money system that is posed by the emergence of alternative virtual currencies.

Just to give some background to my research, I have read a large number of sceptical pieces about Bitcoin from economists in a range of blogs and newspaper articles, but there has been very little work I have seen that examines those that own Bitcoin and their reasons and motivations. It strikes me that this is a major gap in the literature since we can only understand Bitcoin's future as a currency and an asset by understanding the motivations of the community around Bitcoin. For these reasons I would like to undertake a survey of members of the Bitcoin Forum with as broad a range of participants as possible, I am aiming for roughly between fifty and a hundred initially. So whether you are a small or large scale investor, whether you have been holding Bitcoin for a short or long period of time I would be really interested in your views on the currency.

Full anonymity will be ensured and your membership name and details will be kept confidential, unless you explicitly request that your user name be disclosed. Any articles or pieces coming from this research will be made publicly available and will be posted on the Bitcoin forum for further discussion. Because I would ideally like to have as broad a range of participants as possible, please share this message where possible with members of the Bitcoin Forum who you think would be willing to participate.

If you are interested in participating please message me via the forum and I will send you 8 simple and open ended questions for you to answer in your own time, the questions will be focused on your views about the currency and your reasons for investing in Bitcoin.

Your participation would be much appreciated and I hope this research will serve to correct some of the widely held misunderstandings about Bitcoin.

Thank you.

Bump for OP.

INTERROGATE ME BABY

How long will the survey take. Can you maybe post the questions here?

I just filled mine out.

It was 8 simple questions about how you use/view Bitcoin, most can be answered with 1 word.

I'll Help out.

I'll do it, send them

Yeah, he messaged me them. I'll fill them out tomorrow when I've got time.

im in  send them my way please and thank you

hi! i'm interested send me the questions

shoot baby

I'll bite -- but, depending on the questions, no guarantees.

I've answered, but haven't had a reply. You get my answers?

I am interested please send them.

Send it on down.

I don't participate in surveys unless they pay me like 0.05 BTC

Send here

He hasn't sent any out. I still haven't received one.

add me too.

To ensure full privacy and anonymity of the participants, why don't you use something like surveymonkey.com ?

lol.
You want to get $40 for answering 8 simple questions?

I am interested please send them.

I haven't used Survey Monkey because I would rather not involve more websites than strictly necessary for the process. The Bitcoin Forum is one I trust, people have been good natured and helpful thus far in responses and other discussions I have had on the Forum. It is also helpful for me to know how active those that participate in the survey are in the Bitcoin Forum too (something I can easily find out on the website) - although this will not be connected to anyone's specific username in any results that are released.

Still as I have said I will not release any specific details of participants usernames in any research that is published as a result, it would be a violation of my obligation to participants as a researcher if I did this.

Are you going to publish your research? Where? Here? Please do.

Add me
I am waiting for questions related to Bitcoin.

Hello,

I hope to get it published somewhere but academic publishing is a long, difficult and draining process nowadays. My hope is to get it into the Manchester Capitalism working papers series initially as that's open access - but that probably won't be for 6 months to a year or so at least. However, I will put up a link here to any articles or pieces that do come out of this, if and when that happens.

Thanks.

Wonderful thanks for letting us know

Sure. I'll answer your survey.