Bitcoin survey for my college class

[Sawra]

Hello, I apologize for double posting - I tried to post this last night but my post disappeared - I don't know if I am breaking some rule or if it was a bug in the system, because it just disappeared entirely (it's not in the trash, on my profile, there is no record of it, etc). I am currently completing my Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and had to make a survey for my User Research class. I am really interested in Bitcoin, so that is what I decided to make my survey on. The trouble is, I am in need of respondents who are familiar with Bitcoin, and don't personally know any. If you wouldn't mind taking my survey - it only takes approx. 5 minutes, I would really appreciate it! Also, if you have any ideas about where I can post it to get more respondents who are familiar with Bitcoin, please do let me know - any leads help! Here is the survey: http://washington.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/ ... YIrxzrnSdf

[ronnieb]

Also, if you have any ideas about where I can post it to get more respondents who are familiar with Bitcoin, please do let me know - any leads help! Here is the survey: http://washington.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/ ... YIrxzrnSdf

Good place to post is reddit... specifically subreddit /r/btc but anywhere Bitcoin will work.

FYI taking the survey now.

[ronnieb]

Here are my thoughts on the survey (certain points). Not pejorative of course... just talking aloud.

The survey is a little confusing because I went into the survey thinking it's a survey about Bitcoin but it says "Specify how much of an advantage or disadvantage each of the following qualities are for a currency/banking system to have:*" These are two different things which would require quite different answers in most cases.

Any way, I proceeded with the survey as if I were speaking specifically about Bitcoin and bitcoin.

first page has question about Consumer Protection (referencing FDIC concept here in the states). This implies use of Bitcoin through a custodian. So it would be great if this were clarified. IMO if I were to use a Custodian (point of Bitcoin is to be your own bank and not rely on Custodial Accounts or Intermediaries) a free (seemingly) insurance would be great.

3rd or 4th page says "Bitcoin has been hacked before" and this could possibly be answered a couple different ways. Some might say the hard fork 92 Billion bitcoin spam result from 2010 was a hack... but in the traditional hacking sense Bitcoin is "hack-resiliant". That being said, persons may often answer "yes" to this question because there have been many companies (Bitcoin and otherwise) that get hacked all the time and this could be conflated with Bitcoin being hacked although nothing could be further from the truth.

Also on the same page "pay taxes on value they hold in bitcoin" is somewhat confusing. I believe it should have been worded "pay taxes on Capital Gains actualized through bitcoin or made through bitcoin"

All in all great survey!! Your work is helping adoption!!