We are a group of crypto-currency researchers from the University of California, San Diego, USA. We are writing an academic paper on the socioeconomic behaviors in the altcoin community.
We would like to invite everyone to participate in a short survey.
(Feel free to fill in both surveys if you are a developer and a miner.)
Your experience with altcoin will be useful toward our research and the community. All responses will be kept confidential and used only for research purposes. The result of the survey will be a part of a scientific publication, in which features that identify specific individuals or altcoins will be removed. It is not our intent to speculate or judge anyone. Our goal is to understand the community in an objective, data-driven way.
In the past few years, we have published papers such as
this one on de-anonymizing Bitcoin and
another one on bitcoin-mining botnets. Both papers were published at prestigious academic conferences such as IMC and NDSS.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the lead researcher,
Danny Y. Huang.
Thank you!
(Edited this post based on feedback from past survey respondents.)