07-04-2015 - #BitcoinSurvey May & June Prizes sent

[jammers]

OP Last updated: 4th July

International Bitcoin Usage Survey
 English Survey Complete - German, Spanish, Arabic & Finnish coming soon

Hi all,

I'm running a local and international survey for bitcoin usage for http://www.BitcoinsinIreland.com. I have closed off the English language survey now, with the first interim report is at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1017295.msg11020556#msg11020556 . I will shortly go through the final data and present a second report. Once that is done, I will then be launching the same survey in the following languages: German, Spanish, Finnish & Arabic (pm if you can help with other languages)

What's the survey about?
This survey is aimed at people who do and don't use bitcoin across the world to get an understanding of the type of people who use, mine, trade or have a general interest in bitcoin, plus those who've never heard of it before! This survey covers a variety of things in the bitcoin space, and covers nearly 40 questions, but not all have to be answered.

What will I get for participating?
Optionally, you can put a bitcoin address in. For the English language survey which ran over 3 months, there was 1.00 bitcoin distributed across 3 sets of monthly prizes (0.05 bitcoin each), and a grand prize at the end of 0.25. Proof of payments - https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/address/1LUD7xavJo1um3toduKCpKu1tcKM4RmgPD/transactions

I will be putting up another 0.25 bitcoin for each of these four languages (another 1.00 bitcoin), which will be split into 5x 0.05 bitcoin prizes, and will update this thread when these surveys go live.

How is it international
Most of the research I've seen has been North American focused. I'm European, from Ireland, and want to see what the case is everywhere else. The initial survey was in English. The same survey has been localised into German, Spanish, Finnish & Arabic, and these will launch when the final report from the English survey is released, to see the differences or similarities.

Where can I do the survey
The English version of the survey is currently closed.

German, Spanish, Finnish & Arabic are coming soon.

Where can I get more information on the survey and results?
Information about the survey is on twitter at http://twitter.com/BTCinIreland under the hashtag #BitcoinSurvey (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BitcoinSurvey&src=typd)

Want to write an article about #BitcoinSurvey
We've had a great response on twitter, and also across a number of cryptocurrency news sites. If you'd like to be added to our press list for our next announcement, please pm me your details or email jamie [at] bitcoins in ireland [dot] com

What will they be? Who knows, have your say today! Questions are welcome, and I've done similar stuff in the video games space, so search "The Games Industry in Ireland 2012" to get an idea how it'll look at the end.

Cheers

Jamie

==English Survey Results==

267 responses from 64 countries

Map of Survey Participants


Gender Distribution

[mishax1]

+1
That is a nice survey, pretty well written, I've enjoyed it.  

May need some minor improvements, but it's good in overall.

[9000]

Why the interest in faucets?

It would be more interesting if it had a section about entrepreneurship, many people in the bitcoin ecosystem run some kind of business, from blogs to forums, exchanges, faucet sites, games, it would be nice to have some stats on that.

[Snail2]

Good well written survey indeed, with sensible questions.

[TrailingComet]

Ok, this looks like a decent survey, will complete it and hope to win something in the raffle

[jammers]

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses, we're up to ten responses already which is great

I've put up an image at https://twitter.com/BTCinIreland/status/576744821781618688 to give an idea of the kind of way things will look. I'll need a lot more before it becomes more apparent what people like.

And re: faucets, they are one of the main ways that people try to get bitcoin after finding out about it, and as I've come into bitcoin via them to go on to accept bitcoin in my business, invest in hardware (antminers), try cloud hashing etc, and they are unique to bitcoin, I'm very curious to see how prevalent they are!

On the entrepreneurship one, there are questions (ie I got my company to use it, I use it in my own business) that can give some of the data, but I'm more interested in hearing how people use it day to day, before delving deeper into that rabbithole ;p

[goose20]

A worthwhile survey. Only took 5 or so minutes to complete too

[valkir]

Great survey! Quick and professional.

Can wait to see the result of it.

Cheer

Valkir

[Mitchell]

That was a nice survey and I hope you can use the information I've entered. Can't wait to see the results.

[twister]

I have completed the survey as well, I don't mine so I have left that portion. I had fun doing it and let's see how it goes.

[mitus-2]

completed the survey! good luck for your research!

[Nude]

I'm in.

Good luck with your study.

[adworker]

Nice survey, consider moving this to Games and rounds section
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=71.0
It is nice place for the ones looking for chance of some free Bitcoins

[mishax1]

When you offer a bounty, expect it to be spammed and manipulated.. 

[jammers]

I want to reach everyone, so hopefully bitcoin discussion is the appropriate place for it.

And we're up to 12 13 countries now, awesome https://twitter.com/BTCinIreland/status/576793856290729985

[Harry Hood]

This is the most thorough survey I've seen on this forum, well done! Can you share results when you're finished with your study? Also, what's an "old fashioned bitcoin-qt"? Thanks for letting me participate and providing a financial incentive!

[mishax1]

I want to reach everyone, so hopefully bitcoin discussion is the appropriate place for it.

And we're up to 12 countries now, awesome https://twitter.com/BTCinIreland/status/576793856290729985

Try to update the OP with more info like you do on twitter and bump this thread from time to time to get more attraction. Also try to reach some more bitcoin news sites like you did with cointelegraph.

[Harry Hood]

Nice survey, consider moving this to Games and rounds section
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=71.0
It is nice place for the ones looking for chance of some free Bitcoins

I don't think you should move this to games and rounds. The Bitcoin Discussion forum provides a more well rounded cross section of bitcointalk traffic. Games and rounds will just get you people interested in gambling, which will skew your population, you'll have population bias. Also, this survey has nothing to do with just gambling or games and rounds.

[unamis76]

Nice survey. When I saw 7 pages I thought it was going to be boring, haha, but that's not the case. Nice questions, looking forward to the results and for the drawing!

[jammers]

I'll update the OP every so often once I have some volume of data, but the images are certainly helping get some more people filling it in, aside from everyone here filling it in. I am making sure that I get a broad range of inputs, so you might see some advertising (i've only a couple of euro a day going though) with banners or text ads for it, and they're specifically to reach out to people not on talk, and also people who maybe haven't used bitcoin yet