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Title: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: smyers on March 23, 2014, 04:41:57 PM
Hi there!

I'm a PhD student in communication at USC Annenberg really interested in alternative economies and technology. I've been researching Bitcoin over the course of the last year and have been following this forum, but this is my first time posting.

I'm hoping to contribute work that's grounded in the community, since a lot of the work that's been published on Bitcoin so far has been pretty technical. I'm especially interested in what Bitcoin means for how we understand money in the post-financial crisis era.

As a heads up, I'll be posting a survey soon that's part of my first foray into the project - I would love to hear all of your thoughts! Any results I gather will be shared with the community, and no identifiable information will be collected.

Looking forward to meeting you guys!

Sarah


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: roslinpl on March 23, 2014, 05:25:05 PM
Hi Sarah.
I love to read some more details about your researches.

Post it here asap :)

Regards!


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: smyers on March 23, 2014, 05:50:05 PM
Hi roslinpl! Just posted on it over in the general forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=527796.msg5859220#msg5859220 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=527796.msg5859220#msg5859220). If you have any questions or want to chat more, feel free to reply/PM me?

Cheers!


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: counter on March 23, 2014, 08:47:51 PM
Welcome to the forum.  Sounds like you have some interesting skills that could be useful to the forum and it's members.  I'm going to try and follow your work in the future as there should be some interesting things to learn along the way, cheers.


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: tokeweed on March 24, 2014, 11:49:26 AM
you might want to give ripple a look for your research. it is a network that federates everything and everyone whether you are a bank or a crypto currency exchange. think of it as something like SMTP for money.

anyway, to learn more about ripple start here:  http://coinjoint.info/ripple-might-want-pay-attention/ (http://coinjoint.info/ripple-might-want-pay-attention/) and here:  https://xrptalk.org/forum/61-faq-and-guides/   (https://xrptalk.org/forum/61-faq-and-guides/)


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: Sonny on March 24, 2014, 12:14:49 PM
welcome Sarah.

As a heads up, I'll be posting a survey soon that's part of my first foray into the project - I would love to hear all of your thoughts! Any results I gather will be shared with the community, and no identifiable information will be collected.

I am sure you will get lots of response from the community. :D


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: R0yalAir on March 24, 2014, 11:34:14 PM
Share some samples, we want to know more about your works.


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: smyers on March 25, 2014, 08:52:48 PM
Thanks so much for warm welcome everyone, I really appreciate it!

@tokeweed, I actually hadn't heard of Ripple before, but will definitely spend some time looking in to it since it sounds like just the type of thing I've been studying - thanks for sharing!

@R0yalAir, I'm actually relatively new (only in my first year as a doctoral student) so I haven't had much published yet - though I've got a few things in the pipeline. I'll definitely share more as soon as I can, starting with the initial results of this project early next month.

I am still looking for more responses over the next few days, so if anyone is interested and hasn't taken it yet the survey is still available at https://usc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9KPy7dn2S6DPPo1

Thank you to all that have participated so far!


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: R0yalAir on March 25, 2014, 11:29:27 PM
@smyers Great ! so I guess I will need to be patient until next month.


Title: Re: Newbie here - Bitcoin researcher
Post by: Testing123 on March 26, 2014, 02:08:51 AM
I am still looking for more responses over the next few days, so if anyone is interested and hasn't taken it yet the survey is still available at https://usc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9KPy7dn2S6DPPo1

Done :)