Safety awareness of bitcoin users

[jople2004]

i have never heard of the site that your survey is located on

It's a local survey site, thats why...

@OP: take a look here too:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VaWhbAj7hWNdiE73P-W-wrl5a0WNgzjofmZXe0Rh5sg/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Great list, thanks.

Done!

This was great! Thanks for doing this! Happy to see that we are slowly getting to the universities and colleges!

I have answered your test,
good luck with your work !

Thank you.

[g1974ak]

Hello

My name is Nejc and I am a student of the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia. As part of my thesis entitled “The Safety of the Bitcoin Cryptocurrency” I want to gather information on the safety awareness of bitcoin users. Your answers are crucial to the implementation of my study.

The survey is anonymous, it contains 20 questions, and answering them will take you 5 minutes at the most.

Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

Link to the survey: CLICK

I had completed your questionnaire. Congratulation for your work and for the choice. Hope that you will find good answers from your work and this can be evaluated by your professors. Hope then that you will have the maximum of votes for your thesis. Bitcoin deserves this.

[kevindurant]

so what security you will provide to bitcoin users through this survey because the whole system of blockchian already much secure and decentralized, i am curious to know about this?

This questionarre is not about bitcoin&blockchain's security.
It's about user's security. For example "How are you keeping your private keys safe" etc.

but the any link from newbie account can be suspicious and you can get hacked by this trick so i will advice everyone stay away from these kind of links where some kind of risk involve in it.

Before clicking the link you may scan it. (Hover the link with mouse and or copy it) Then check it on virus total etc.
Virustotal says it's clean: https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/b167c862f03a1c88a3edc628e8188821c7819a47bb91c4868872ada6a8b2893f/analysis/

[jople2004]

Hello

My name is Nejc and I am a student of the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia. As part of my thesis entitled “The Safety of the Bitcoin Cryptocurrency” I want to gather information on the safety awareness of bitcoin users. Your answers are crucial to the implementation of my study.

The survey is anonymous, it contains 20 questions, and answering them will take you 5 minutes at the most.

Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

Link to the survey: CLICK

I had completed your questionnaire. Congratulation for your work and for the choice. Hope that you will find good answers from your work and this can be evaluated by your professors. Hope then that you will have the maximum of votes for your thesis. Bitcoin deserves this.

Thanks man.

[mooseCavalry]

Completed.

I look forward to reading your conclusions based on this study, so please post a link in the future!

[Kprawn]

With all the surveys being posted on the forum, we should ask for a built-in survey option to be hosted on this forum.

They can even monetize it a bit and ask a little fee for it, or they can deposit a small amount, which could be distributed to the participants as a reward for their participation.

Why do we need to click on some unknown external link, if it can be done internally on this forum? Most of these surveys are about Bitcoin, so it's the right place to host it.

Answering security questions about your Bitcoins on a unknown platform, is just asking for trouble. 

[jople2004]

Completed.

I look forward to reading your conclusions based on this study, so please post a link in the future!

Unfortunately it's going to be written in slovenian language... but I will upload the excel file with the results.

[LiteCoinGuy]

Completed.

I look forward to reading your conclusions based on this study, so please post a link in the future!

Unfortunately it's going to be written in slovenian language... but I will upload the excel file with the results.

Do you own BTC ? 

[jople2004]

Completed.

I look forward to reading your conclusions based on this study, so please post a link in the future!

Unfortunately it's going to be written in slovenian language... but I will upload the excel file with the results.

Do you own BTC ? 

Not anymore. I sold everything in the end of 2013, when the prices spiked up to 1000$ per bitcoin. I started mining back in the days when even CPU mining was still profitable. Made quite a lot of money.

[dothebeats]

Completed.

I look forward to reading your conclusions based on this study, so please post a link in the future!

Unfortunately it's going to be written in slovenian language... but I will upload the excel file with the results.

Do you own BTC ? 

Not anymore. I sold everything in the end of 2013, when the prices spiked up to 1000$ per bitcoin. I started mining back in the days when even CPU mining was still profitable. Made quite a lot of money.

I knew bitcoin way back 2010, I just don't have the initiative to study about it back then. If I was the same as you, I would be a millionaire by now. :v

Okay going back to your survey, I have answered it accordingly. Too bad the study will be written in Slovene which I do not know. What is the scope of your study? Focused only on the security and safety, or does it cover other topics as well?

[the bitcoin cat]

Done. I look forward to your paper.

[jople2004]

I knew bitcoin way back 2010, I just don't have the initiative to study about it back then. If I was the same as you, I would be a millionaire by now. :v

Okay going back to your survey, I have answered it accordingly. Too bad the study will be written in Slovene which I do not know. What is the scope of your study? Focused only on the security and safety, or does it cover other topics as well?

It is focused on the safety of the system itself, potential attacks on the network and the use of bitcoins as a preffered way of payment in deep web black markets.

[manselr]

7 years. exactly.

It hasn't been 7 years yet.

Since January 2009; 6 and half years only

I think there were some super early pre alpha builds that dated back to mid to late 2008, maybe only shared around in small circles. Someone else would need to confirm this tho.

[jople2004]

First block was established on january 3rd 2009... however I didn't want to put 6 years and 7 months as an answer, its simply rounded up to 7 years...

[Next BillGates]

You might change the radio button to check box on this question ► What type of bitcoin wallets do you use
Because, i'm using all wallets  except hardware wallets.

[Don007]

but the any link from newbie account can be suspicious and you can get hacked by this trick so i will advice everyone stay away from these kind of links where some kind of risk involve in it.

Exactly, and that's where my safety awareness starts. I do not open URLS from strangers, especially not here in this forum. Some people have tried to scam me by sending me strange URLs or even trying to let me download some files which should contain "only printscreens" in their opinion; they wanted me (a stranger to them) to help them fix their problems with their Bitcoin wallet.. And in order to do that, I should download some files. Right.

Common sense is already a great tool for your security awareness. I'm sorry if you really need respondents for your thesis (i've been there myself too), but I'm not going to help you with that. Especially not if you use such weird URLs.

[manselr]

but the any link from newbie account can be suspicious and you can get hacked by this trick so i will advice everyone stay away from these kind of links where some kind of risk involve in it.

Exactly, and that's where my safety awareness starts. I do not open URLS from strangers, especially not here in this forum. Some people have tried to scam me by sending me strange URLs or even trying to let me download some files which should contain "only printscreens" in their opinion; they wanted me (a stranger to them) to help them fix their problems with their Bitcoin wallet.. And in order to do that, I should download some files. Right.

Common sense is already a great tool for your security awareness. I'm sorry if you really need respondents for your thesis (i've been there myself too), but I'm not going to help you with that. Especially not if you use such weird URLs.

I don't think nothing wrong can happen if you disable javascript and plugins when opening a link. It's still common sense to be wary of any link posted by a newbie. In fact the forum should warm users when a newbie posts a link. This one seems like a legit link tho.

[BrianM]

Done, it would be nice with a 0.001 bounty for completeting, after all this is bitcoin land!

[jople2004]

You might change the radio button to check box on this question ► What type of bitcoin wallets do you use
Because, i'm using all wallets  except hardware wallets.

Done

But, i think you should fix this one.
http://s3.postimg.org/xpqdymd9f/Untitled.png
There are many bitcoiner who have more than one type of bitcoin wallet, so i think you should let them choose more than one.

I know, its a mistake. For now just list all the different wallets that you use under the option "other".

[NorrisK]

Can you share some preliminary results yet? Would be very interesting to see!

Also nice to know if older users use different wallets etc.