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Hello, I am a postgraduate student doing MSc Management at University College London (UCL). I am currently conducting a research about Bitcoin. The purpose of my research is to investigate the current status as well as the future position of Bitcoin.

I found that eople in this forum got a lot of great idea and opinion on Bitcoin.  if you want to express your idea,please can leave a comment here to help with my thesis.Or you can help me to complete my survey.

just tell me anything about Bitcoin

https://uclinnovation.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cusD4tZiYPh2kOF

you can also ask on reddit if you like

-The blockchain is the brilliant technological innovation, and the source of Bitcoin's intrinsic value.
-Bitcoin is merely the first app developed on this new protocol layer (blockchain). Think of it like HTTP.
-The blockchain is the birth of Internet 2.0 and Money 3.0
-Will make you insanely wealthy, if you want.
-Will change the way human beings think about money forever
-Is a pandora's box that has been opened and can never be closed.
-Even if bitcoin were to die (spoiler: it won't), crypto would live on in some form. Fiat's days are numbered.
-Could very well be the beginning of the end of perpetual fiat-fueled nation-state war.
-Will make your corrupt, useless piece of shit government and their artificially propped-up funny-money obsolete and worthless, in time.
-Represents the dawn of the true information age, the age of reason. As long as we don't have a nuclear apocalypse in the near future...

Read this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths
and this: https://bitcoin.org/en/faq
and this: http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2014/07/bitcoin-economy-of-eternal-now.html

Read Satoshi's original whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhe61JaNFLU (Bitcoin 101)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUPPYzzZrI (Why Bitcoin's growth is normal)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq8yOMl8IUs (Andreas Antonopoulus at Maker Fair in Detroit)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaPgfErzeu0 (Bitcoin the Organism with Jeff Garzik)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joITmEr4SjY (Bitcoin vs Political power with Stefan Molyneux)

Take a look at this link
https://bitcoin.org/en/faq (https://bitcoin.org/en/faq)

Thank  you guys .

That faq is really helpful...

I will ask it at reddit as well later.

My thesis is from the views of Bitcoin users, potential Bitcoin users and the public.

So, your personal opinion will be really helpful to me.

My survey link:
https://uclinnovation.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cusD4tZiYPh2kOF

Are there specific questions you still need answered apart from a survey? I bet most people around here are more than glad to help someone who is interested in getting to know more about the subject they're spending so much time on!

I wanna know your expectation of Bitcoin....

What do think about its future?

what can it become in the future?

I personally don't really know what will come of it. It may 'succeed' (whatever that means) or it may fail completely. What is so special about it is that it's the first of its kind. It's something that's never been there before. It's merely a protocol or set of rules that everyone abides by, and can therefore transfer money. If someone decides not to abide by the protocol, it's immediately obvious (by definition) that he did something 'forbidden' and no one is going to accept their transaction or whatever they tried to do. It's basically a majority vote what the rules are. So there's no single entity in charge of the whole system. That's what makes bitcoin so incredible.

What can it become? I guess we don't know that as of now! I guess it's not the best system for day to day use in the supermarket. But may find its niche. It's awesome as a store of wealth, it's great for anonymous online shopping, it's unbeatable as a means of transferring small/medium and especially big amounts of money world wide in the matter of seconds!

Survey completed.  One of the better surveys I have seen.  Asks a lot of relevant questions and really makes you think about where you stand on this technology.

Thank you for completing my survey  :) :) :)

I did the survey as well. I think the questions you are asking should be able to get you a good understanding.

thank you  :) :) :) :) :) :)

You'll find that there's a lot of hype, err hope, but not a lot of fact.

If you want to investigate the future growth of Bitcoin I see the question being structured like this:

1) Measure future growth in terms of Adoption

2) Measure future growth in terms of value of BTC to USD/GBP/EUR

For item 1) you can find a lot of information on retailer adoption and infrastructure improvements (i.e., easier ways for people to get started using/transacting in Bitcoin).

For item 2) you should a) use standard principles of economics to understand how the greater supply of coins (up to the 21 million max) will influence the price (inflation), b) think about how the action of fiat inflation may impact the exchange rate, and c) use standard investment technical analysis (i.e., price trends, volume trends, and moving averages) to project how the price per BTC may grow or decline.

Asking for people's thoughts will get you a ton of great, optimistic opinions, but little fact that may be useful or required for a sound graduate paper.

One ask I have of you is to please post your paper on this forum so we can all benefit from your analysis.

Good luck with it, sounds like an interesting project!

Survey completed!

Thank you for completing my survey and giving me suggestions.

My thesis is try to analyze via different theory ...e.g. network of externalities

i.e. more people accepting it or willing to use it can enhance the development and popularity of Bitcoin


Or....try to find out what do people expect , what the condition to make them accept Bitcoin are/is.


I will post my research paper in this forum later...

Please help me to distribute my survey.

Thank you guys

filled out your 30 question survery
hope that helps you

Thank you :) :) :) :) :) :)

I filled out your survey in the old thread. Why did you make a new thread?
I hope my contribution helps you.

I found that people in this forum got a lot of great idea and opinion on Bitcoin. 

u guys r super experts...

Hope that u guys can give us some idea about bitcoin to help with my thesis.

i wanna know

what do u guys expect from bitcoin?

what conditions could make you accept Bitcoin?


Give me some suggestion please...

Hey bitcoinucl, I just completed your questionnaire.

I remember filling in a questionnaire for a grad student of UC Irvine some time (half a year) ago. Are you in contact with her. Do you have her results?

Are you interested in collaborations? I wrote a simple study of address reuse in the blockchain:
http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~jbarcelo/papers/20140704_User_Privacy_in_the_Public_Bitcoin_Blockchain/paper.pdf

Thank you so much... Ur paper is really helpful

Thank  you guys

Took your survey. Please update the OP with any results you able able to get once the survey is complete.

You're welcome! It's a great thing that you're interested. I hope you're not about to show Bitcoin in a way that's bad for it. Showing the negative sides, dangers or caveats is okay, but I don't think it's very smart to just shun it and write it off as a stupid pyramid scheme. What do you think about Bitcoin up to now?

i've done a documentary thread with lots of good vids. (i try to update it once a month)
perhaps it can help you in any way with your research.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=268955.0

edit: survey taken

Thank you my friend....

love the "Governmental Hearings & Discussions"....I am writing on this section..lol

Hi, guys

Please help me to distribute my survey.

Thank you.

@Bitcoinucl I have taken your survey. If you need anything else or need assistance compiling the data please send me a PM and I will be happy to help.

Mobius, thanks so much!!! ;) ;) ;)

Will youb  publish your research on online. If you published it on online that would be very helpful for new miner like me. It would help us to know each and every detail about BTC. I hope you will share the link.

Spreading BitCoin

When asked how the values ​​and the spread of BitCoin currency. Regarding the current distribution BitCoin has spread almost all over the world. However there are some countries that have explicitly rejected the use BitCoin currency as a means of online transactions. Country-these countries include China and Singapore, the country has refused to use BitCoin as a legitimate selling tool because it is not safe. Besides BitCoin also feared would adversely affect the stability of online transactions in the country.

Regarding the value of BitCoin, if on-the-exchange rate with the United States dolas value, others argue that the current value of 1 BitCoin or 1B (symbol BitCoin) valued at $ 195 dollars. However, the value will continue to change according to the presence of the amount of current BitCoin. Until now there are 21 million estimated to have increased 25 BitCoin BitCoin permenitnya worldwide.

thank you ... ;) ;) ;) ;)

I agree. I have taken a few surveys administered by college students on here and yours is very focused and will likely provide you reliant information about this kind of technology.